Pound technologies - HDMI cables for retro systems.

[Harrison]

True. I used to buy CDs every month back in the day. I only now buy a CD for something I really want a physical copy of. The last one was the last Metallica album. Tend to just listen to Spotify or MP3s on a memory stick in the car these days.

[J T]

Spotify is so incredibly convenient. That's a major part of the reason I stopped 'obtaining' music by 'other means'.

[Harrison]

It can also be really annoying when it's missing half the albums by an artist though.

Plus the number of times I've recently had an argument with Alexa when asking it to play a song from Spotify when I know it's on there. Have to keep rewording and approaching the request differently until it finds it.. or more annoyingly it starts playing some obsure never heard of song instead.. which I'm sure is some secret ploy by Spotify to get some of their unlistened songs played.

[J T]

Have to keep rewording and approaching the request differently until it finds it.. or more annoyingly it starts playing some obsure never heard of song instead.. which I'm sure is some secret ploy by Spotify to get some of their unlistened songs played.

How (or why) would Spotify benefit from that though?

[Harrison]

I can't remember the reasons, but I read an article some time ago about Spotify. They said about 4 million songs (20%) on their servers has never been played.

There is even a third party app created that randomly suggests never listened to songs based on your criteria.

http://forgotify.com/

It's tied into Spotifies discovery technology. Spotify do want you to expand your listening and find new music as it maintains the interest for musicians to keep utilising the platform.