That is after we'd repeated the song title/artist to it over and over and it eventually understood us.
New albums on CD are nearly universally under $10 now, and used CDs are even cheaper, so the price of Spotify is more than an album per month. That's a very steep price, and ultimately I think I'm happier buying 15 CDs per year than paying Spotify's subscription fees.
I don't see such high royalties are sustainable if Spotify can't be profitable under them.
I think for most people this is a non-starter, maybe you convert them to MP3s and sync them to all your devices?
Right now I use Spotify and can listen to my music at work, home, or on the go using my phone. And that's fine with me. I don't pay for Spotify though which means I have to listen to ads and their mobile experience isn't as good.
In any event, DRM free MP3s are usually within about $1 of the album price, and many of the places that sell MP3s have some option to stream from their cloud storage. I go with the shiny plastic discs because a) I'm a Luddite and b) some genres of music have audible distortions in mp3 (mainly pre-echo!) that I find bothersome when listening with headphones.
Quickly browsing through the current list, about half of them are songs I've heard on the radio in the past month.
Maybe one day I'll even switch from the free plan to paying them.
They could also expand the social features.
I pay for the Spotify family plan and it has been a great experience.
I will continue to use prime for shipping, storage, and shows. But for music, so far, Spotify is the only service that checks all the marks.