When you bought an album you owned it for life. With spotify you are borrowing the music and if you stop paying you get nothing left

Lots of reasons.

1. They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.

2. At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.

3. The ‘fake artists’ controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland ‘playlist’ mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.

4. Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.

5. Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.

6. You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.

In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.

My frustration with Spotify is based not in price but that they’re choosing to shaft indie artists and new young artists.
https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/track-monetization-eligibility/
The 0.5% of royalties that they redirect to those with more plays is often 100% of the royalties for the little guy being stolen from.
The artificial tracks they wanna combat? I imagine they will surf by pleasantly with 1000-3000 plays over the last 12 months with a wider variety of bot accounts listening to ensure they reach enough unique listeners.

While it is essentially nothing (in monetary value) they still rob the teenage punk band that sounds awful of their first royalty dollar.

Yeah I have been top member for over a decade. It is convenient, there are some things pushing me away though.

• The podcast push, autoplaying unremoveable videos on the homescreen.

• The algorithym pushing US style hack shit like what loser group of comedians take on politics is despite I exclusively listening to Australian comic book movie news and British Ukrainian war coverage.

• Worsening UI/UX, poor offline management

• Shorts/Reels

• Removing features, from the running tempo sensor to family mixes.

If I’m renting music, at least give me FLAC level quality.

No, 320 kbps won’t do.

There are probably many individual reasons people have for hating Spotify, but here are some of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHbS6bgmqE

Spotify was an amazing service. I’ve used it for years but its getting worse. More and more things that are intrusive are being added, prices are going up. It just sucks i wish they would have just split it into different tiers so i dont have to pay for all this extra shit.

Swedish or american- they’re still exploiting artists. Capitalists gonna capitalist.

I don’t hate it per se, but would rather it paid the artists better… quite simple really