So Spotify is finally open to U.S http://www.spotify.com/us/hello-america/. Would I dare to hope that finally record industry is considering respecting consumer and delivering something instead of blaming that pirating is reason why profits go down?

Which reminds me; I can’t remember where I heard it, but in a long run, markets tend to remove layers between manufacturers and consumers.  And music industry has extremely complex structure of layers :)

I’m heavy Spotify user, same as wife. When son got a new phone, we wanted to get Spotify also for him. Music syncing to phone on is not that fun thing. Unfortunately there is no multiuser etc license for Spotify. Getting third premium to houshold did not felt that good, but luckily offline provided “good enough” feature.

In practice: son is now using my account. When I’m not online, he puts the Spotify online, searches tracks he wants and downloads them offline. After that he can play those as many times as he want’s same time when I’m using online playing. Cool is that Spotify is so easy to use that 9 years old can handle this, but even more cool would be that Spotify would allow streaming even on case that clients on same WLAN.