I've never understood the appeal of Spotify, recommendations are shit, the client/ads suck and I'm not whipping out my credit card when I've got a music collection + Google Play + iTunes.
It lets me sample new music instantly and organically without needing to pirate anything, and if I really like something, I can buy it and add it to my Plex too. Yes I know that I can probably find the album on certain torrent sites, download it in less than 1 minute, unpack it and then get the song I wanted to listen up and playing.
But that's a hell of a lot of work, compared to just double-clicking the song and having it playing instantly. And if the song sucks, you dont need to keep seeding albums you actually want to delete just to maintain ratios at private trackers, etc etc.
Using Spotify is just so much less hassle. These days I find I use Plex less and less for music, and Spotify pretty much gets used 99.9% of the time.
So I'm curious: What do you think is crap with Spotify?