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@endorphinz re: spotify.
I think it's fine for consuming music in a quick/accessible manner (fwiw I have never really dug in. my wife has an account so I am only vaguely familiar as a user). the quality isn't very good, but people can share playlists easily, etc. however, algorithmic discovery is heavily tilted to fraud/pay-to-play. if people think they are finding stuff "organically" by letting it randomize (or however they do it), they are probably mistaken.
the real problem I have with the platform - esp as a (mostly former) musician who has played on albums on there - is the extremely meager earnings given to artists. here's a recent piece on them proposing lowering royalties to a record-low. the payout scheme essentially pits musicians against each other - there's a finite pool of money that is divvied up between all artists, based on fraction of plays. it's a major issue for 99% of artists when they're up against Drake/Adele/Ed Sheeran/the sound of rain playlist (who buys all of his clicks, thus taking away from other artists - see next). there is also widespread fraud on the service, mostly in the form of bots. you can google services that will charge you $4 for 1000 plays on up to numbers that allow someone to essentially double their money.
meanwhile, Spotify is valued at ~$47 billion.
As far as the business side ($$) goes, I invite you to subscribe to The Bob Lefsetz newsletter & podcast who, in some entries completely dispels the notion that Spotify is bad for artists.
never heard of him. just glossing over a piece now and I feel confident in saying I won't be going much further with his work.