A few independent musicians have noted that they make so little from Spotify (and the users don't get guilted into buying anything on iTunes) that it actually isn't worth it.

I think Spotify will slowly lose independent musicians and eventually lose market when they lose more artists (in fact, didn't a record label recently pull all tracks off Spotify?)

I can see a collapse approaching GroupOn proportions (let's face the inevitable there ;)) if things don't change soon, and for similar reasons (screwing over small business vs. screwing over independent musicians)

You are probably right, spotify does not solve anything. It has not removed the middleman between music producers and music consumers. Spotify is the recording-labels, middleman, own transformation into a digital world. But it is still a middleman.

One beautiful day music will be free again like in the Napster and audiogalaxy days.

Music does not need to be free (as in beer). Artists need to make a living too. Mind you, a living shouldn't mean an episode on MTV Cribs, but still.

The solution could be to sell music directly to the listener, without middlemen and labels. But then, who handles promotion? Public Relations? Placement? Concert booking? Marketing? When all of these will become individually offered services, like most other web-related services have become, we may see the music revolution begin.

Or the days of Bittorre- oh wait, that's today :D

There's been grumbling from some labels that don't feel Spotify is worth it. Hard to tell if it's a full-blown implosion, though.

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111110distrib...

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/081011spotifyresponds

http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/091911spotifydefends

etc.