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>A Spotify Premium user isn't the average music fan.

Disagree I consider myself the average music fan and the reason I like this service is that I have all my music with me where ever I go, even if its not my device. Other people I know who use Spotify are mostly average the other half isnt.

Spotify has converted me from a pirate in my younger days to a paid music subscriber.

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I can't agree. People that use Spotify, Rdio, last.fm are edge cases, they are early adopters, often heavy users - the sort that freemium services often kick off when they mature.

I believe there is a difference between heavy user (myself) and above average music fans. I will concede that maybe more than half are above average. Above average meaning they go to many music festivals and follow what artists are doing.

Your use case is why I have iTunes Match. It's finally not buggy, I love it so much it's the reason I got an iPad mini yesterday instead of a nexus 7, and that was a hard decision.

I am all about cross platform these days. S4 GE phone, iPad, MBP laptop, and a windows desktop powerhouse. iTunes Match sucked when I used it last but its been a while.

I've had it since launch, and it's always been pretty buggy. But for the last 12 months all issues I had (libraries getting weird on one device, streaming choking a bit sometimes) have all been fixed, so I'd gladly recommend it now. 18 months ago? God no ;)

iTunes Match would have been a nice feature 5 years ago but there's just no need with the final catching on of streaming. There's still a handful of music not available on Spotify but I find listening to my own collection of songs to be pretty miserable.

In addition to having most music everywhere, I find that the Spotify sync experience is amazing. I make playlists of Spotify songs and my personal MP3s, and Spotify syncs the entire playlist to my phone. The ability to mix Spotify content with my own content, and have it all synced easily, is what really sold me on the premium subscription.

I completely agree. At first I was a Zune Pass subscriber. I hated that it wasn't cross-platform, but at least it was cheap, had a huge library, and the standalone player was quite good. I had a giant 50gb library of mostly pirated music which I no longer listen to and have since lost. Now I'm an Rdio subscriber. Personally I subscribe to Rdio because I feel the user experience (UI, etc) is far beyond what Spotify offers. Although I'm slightly bummed at some of the exclusive licensing deals that Spotify is getting.

I will have to check out Rdio. Heard of it a lot but havent had the pleasure. Also I love a good UX/UI.

This is why I buy ebooks from Amazon when I can just as easily pirate them, the knowledge that I have a digital archive that I can transfer from device to device with ease (I use itunes match rather than spotify for the same reason).

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