Most music is freely available on YouTube now and there's even desktop clients that just grab the audio stream from YouTube videos. Spotify in my experience often has less content than YouTube so I'd say it's probably worth negative time, sound about right?
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My time searching for and discovery albums is invaluable to me. Spotify removes that satisfaction.
That's a valid reason. I don't think that most people have the same view, and after people experience Spotify playlists like Discovery, it's hard to go back to the old way of finding music.
I find those spotify generated playlists are really bad. I think they try to prefer music that's cheaper for them to play or something. Definitely not a great discovery tool for me.