There's an argument to be made about the payment structure, though. Let's say I listen to music for five hours a day. Four of those hours I'm working, and it's

There's an argument to be made about the payment structure, though. Let's say I listen to music for five hours a day. Four of those hours I'm working, and it's mindless background music. For the last hour, I'm at home, actively listening, engaged. The music in the last hour is worth more to me than the other four hours, and in an older model, pricing can reflect that. Easy-listening CDs are cheaper, and I buy new ones less frequently (it doesn't matter if they repeat, because I'm not really listening). But in the streaming model, the last hour of music is worth less. It's a smaller span of time, and I'm more likely to vary what I listen to during it (so no one artist gets as much money). I don't know if I'd call Spotify responsible for this--it seems like an unintended consequence--but it's certainly unfortunate either way.