If you'd still like to use a terminal player you should check out mopidy: https://www.mopidy.com

This is cool! I was working on something similar but more specifically for my office to democratise our office music with voting and so on, after Soundrop disappeared off the face of the earth. It only supports Spotify at the moment, but the plan was to eventually add soundcloud support as well as file uploads.

I'm curious... Is mopidy like mpd in that clients that connect are only able to edit the playlist? Or can they themselves play songs?

It's not just like mpd, it is mpd + a HTTP server. Ergo you need to control it with a CLI or graphical mpd client or with a web client.

It is absolutely not MPD, it has a partial implementation of the MPD protocol.

If the economic incentives spotify offers are any indication, you may be correct in more ways than one.

(Remember, kids, you're sending a clear signal about what's valuable with your purchases. And if you're using spotify, it isn't the artists whose music you're listening to.)

Consumers usually purchase things based on individual needs, not messages they want to send. It is only in rare instances do consumers actually manipulate the market by deliberately controlling what they purchase, the term is called boycott.

Same here... but I've been thinking of switching as mostly I just listen to a few playlists. Are there any tools to let you easily purchase songs on iTunes / Amazon / etc based upon a Spotify playlist?

I also would like to know this, I want to try something different than Spotify. But every time I try, I miss all my playlists, and switch back to Spotify again.