I have indeed switched from my beloved iTunes to Spotify.
Mainly I have two reasons for this. Firstly, the pay-per-song model has become a bit obsolete. I was dully purchasing everything song and album I liked while I could have easily googled the same thing and download it for free. That started to annoy me because I had to decide for every song whether it was really worth it purchasing it. My friends just downloaded whatever they like on first glance and, well, if they didn’t like the song in two weeks anymore, who gives a damn. I had to calculate up to these two weeks and think if it’s really worth it spending my money. So finding new music became a pure pain-in-the-a. So Spotify finally came a long in Germany and I decided to give it a try.
This brings me to the second reason why I switched to Spotify. iTunes is a bit library obsessed. I was obsessed with my library as well. I wanted perfect album art and every meta tag to be perfect. This consumes more time than you ever get out of listening to your library. Especially with new music coming in every day, things tend to get a bit out of hand. Spotify does not have that. Spotify is the perfect library already. All you have to do is mix your own playlists. The only thing which bugs me a bit about this is that some songs you don’t want to have in a playlist, but in some back collection. Spotify doesn’t really give you that ability (apart from creating one massive playlist that has everything). Maybe that will come at some point though.
The tight integration with my iPhone allows me to have the entire library on the go as well. Which, if Spotify wouldn’t have that, I would have stayed with iTunes. This is absolutely swell.
Somehow though I miss iTunes. I miss the fact that you actually own the music (which you now don’t). Maybe I am getting old.
That said. I’ll keep on using Spotify now.
