I agree with everything you've said, especially about them no longer being interesting, but for one point. You couldn't listen to any song and as such it didn'

I agree with everything you've said, especially about them no longer being interesting, but for one point. You couldn't listen to any song and as such it didn't eliminate the need to buy (or pirate) some tracks. Certain record companies had yet to sign on and quite a few major bands were missing from the database. Bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and ACDC (there are numerous others, these are just the bands I like which were missing and really stuck out to me). I was a paying customer for around 9 months using the service to sync offline playlists with my Android phone (wirelessly, as there were no other solutions that allowed me to do this easily), but I canceled my subscription when they failed to acquire more of the artists I liked and other solutions came along to allow me to wirelessly sync playlists to my device. There are better ways to handle your online music now. Spotify had a real chance at becoming top dog, but in my eyes, they didn't innovate and provide the features the public wanted quickly enough.