I grew tired of Spotify's repetitiveness (I suspect their recommendation algorithm prioritizes what is already cached on your device, to save bandwidth), of the

I grew tired of Spotify's repetitiveness (I suspect their recommendation algorithm prioritizes what is already cached on your device, to save bandwidth), of their terrible treatment of classical music (impossible to see full track titles), of their peddling of stuff I don't want (exclusive podcasts on a closed platform) and of the never-arriving Hi-Fi version. So I re-ripped all my CDs and started a Roon subscription. Huge improvement, and the integrated album reviews are an incredible value, especially for jazz. One thing about Roon which many people miss while complaining about paying for a subscription is that Roon's goals are aligned with the users. I pay them for providing a good experience of listening to my music. They don't have to peddle their own exclusive podcasts, optimize algorithms that feed me cheap stuff, all they get paid for is user experience. I'm quite happy with this arrangement. The music industry should be worried, though. I almost forgot about my CDs, since Spotify worked so well. But now I took the time to re-rip all of them, which took quite a bit of time and effort. And if people have their own music collections, they might look for other (ahem) sources of music to fill their collection.