Summary: Spotify was better when it was a dumb pipe for music that used the canard of "supporting artists directly" to get people to upgrade to Premium. Spotif

Summary: Spotify was better when it was a dumb pipe for music that used the canard of "supporting artists directly" to get people to upgrade to Premium. Spotify is a middleman for the Big 5 record labels. They and advertisers are the customer, not the scrubs paying $12/mo. They cannot just show you music, they don't make any money on that. It's podcasts all the way down because they can stuff it with ads, and don't have to kick back 90% to the rights owner.