> I haven't opened iTunes in years other than to update software, and I would imagine most people are in the same boat.

I would hold my horses there, unless you have numbers.

> I used to take every penny I earned and dump it into the iTunes store. Now I just pay $10/month to Spotify now and listen to whatever I want.

Except quite a few important catalogs that Spotify doesn't have. Also, I've hit quite a few instances of "this song was there yesterday!".

I went back to buying music.

This has been my experience as well; Spotify is great for pop music and more mainstream things.

If one day you want a song that isn't on spotify, but it is on a free bandcamp download, the whole house of cards crumbles (for me anyway).

If I have to keep iTunes around for random songs, I start to just buy albums through that, and then I end up rarely using spotify.

Spotify has a huge selection, to be sure, and for most people it's more than enough, but there will always be someone who isn't quite covered by the catalog and they will generally just go back to using itunes / foobar / whatever.

Why don't you just download the song and import it into Spotify? Spotify plays it like any other song and will even sync it with your devices like normal songs.

I agree, Spotify is missing a few things that you want, so the solution is to abandon it and buy all of your music instead? That doesn't make sense.

Why? Standard trade comes with a lot of standard expectations: I buy, I own, as long as I can make sure I don't lose it.

no lossless support, bad organization of local files, bad searching of local files.

spotify can be a local player but it is a terrible choice.

"Can't play file" for no reason is my favourite do add to that.

Spotify just ain't a particular good music player.

Also, for me, it exhibits a bug where the first 1 second of a stream is played twice. Incredibly odd.

I've used both apps for an extended period. Personally, I liked Rdio slightly more, I just feel it looks (I prefer the lighter background) and handles better. I also think their recommendations when I'm listening to their radio are a better. However, I haven't really looked into too many apps on Spotify, so they might have one that does this even better. On the whole though, both services are extremely similar so if you like Spotify a lot, theres probably not much point to switching

I too have paid for spotify for a few years now.

It's great but it doesn't interface with Siri like iTunes Radio does. Once Apple allows me to tell Siri to play "x" song or playlist I will no longer use Spotify.

I stream music in the car daily and prefer the safest experience.