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Originally Posted by BenMcr
For which you are going to have to pay - as it will for Spotify Premium only - so that is £120 a year. And then it will not allow you to do anything with those files apart from use them on the iPhone/Android phones.
And if you ever cancel the Spotify sub or it goes under, you will lose access to those files - just as you do with any other DRM file
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Where is your information coming from regarding the mobile versions of Spotify being premium only? The advertisement model would work just as well for mobile as it does the the desktop version. I follow the Spotify blogs and forums pretty closely and I've never seen it suggested but I'm happy to be corrected.
MP3's are transient quality recordings in my opinion. Over the years I've lost thousands of MP3's due to hard drive crashes and lost CD's and such. They're disposable. If I like a piece of music enough I'd buy the CD (or download a flac copy), MP3's in my opinion are a portable medium, streaming ogg on Spotify is also portable, only you have the whole record label library and there's no download wait, no storage or library worries, just click and play and add to a server stored playlist if needed. If Virgin were to offer CD quality, i.e. FLAC or WAV formats it would be a whole different matter.