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10 May 2011

Spotify: It’s been too long and the message has been muddled.  Now there are listening limits and purchase options and…didn’t Apple succeed by keeping it simple?  Spotify is playing to the labels as opposed to the audience and it’s hurting them, like everyone else who’s tried to play by rights holder rules in the past.  You can only win by being a renegade.  Right now, Grooveshark looks more like the future than Spotify.

Completely agree with this – it feels like a death by a thousand (music industry) cuts with Spotify at the moment. They’re a lot less interesting then they used to be, and I don’t think a subscription product without a decent free ad-supported version is a mainstream product.

I think TopSpin’s importance is being overstated here though – haven’t we all realised that direct-to-fan retailing can work for some artists but is by no means going to be a massive part of the industry? It’s a niche market, but a potentially lucrative one.

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