The money doesn't matter to me, I've spent thousands on iTunes. It's just pointless to continue paying for Spotify because I haven't used it in almost a year.
I have an old version of spotify on my iPad. Since my iPad is jailbroken, I use certain cydia exploits to give me full premium capabilities and higher audio quality. I don't update Spotify because 1. The exploits will vanish and 2. The updates only add fancy widgets. Just like iOS, I won't update that either because I have no idea what kind of catastrophy Apple is going to shove down my facehole, like what Google did with Google+ in that one darn update. Good job I didn't update at that time... (shiver)
Returning to the point, I love using spotify, but that's only because I've gone into the programming melarcky doing some legally questionable things with it. I don't think it's as possible to do that with spotify as of late, but people tend to find a way.
Besides, you can record the song using Audacity and play it over and over again that way. It takes time, but it is worth the effort. Slow and steady wins the race.
Apple tends to be all furcoat and no knickers. Not all the time, mind you. Certainly there is a massive credance to their name, but their prowess in the world of technology was not as it was in the 1970s and 1980 - They are no longer in the lead when it comes to intense calculation, let IBM handle that. Right now, Apple is focused on dominating the handheld market, the market that common people tend to dip into. They are making good progress on that front, but if a corporation such as Nvidia or AMD decided to cooperate with Intel in developing non-gaming iPad-like handhelds, I would go for them sooner. Things like Nahimic, CCC sound pack and other software would be far more useful and flexible on such a device.
I'm going on a tangent though. I have literally no songs in my itunes (the sound quality is plain anyway) and I primarily use a heavily edited version of Spotify and keep my personally recorded and downloaded music on my MSI laptop and Erazer desktop, where I plug them both in and make sure they have the same files now and again if I find myself on one of them. I have a very broad collection of high-quality WAV files, and because they are mostly of the IDM genre, they have more information packed into them. I have an extremely sensitive hearing range (the maximum possible) so I tend to look for milking the maximum quality possible. Portability isn't an issue because I enjoy actually seeing what's infront of my face and hearing what's going on around me so that I don't get assaulted and have to break someone's nose.
I originally planned on just a passing remark, but I then seemingly and unintentionally turned it into a lecture/essay of sorts. Hm.
