I've been using Spotify to listen to a podcast that has 400 episodes. I've listened to all of them more than once, and when you get to the end there is no way to reset the play history. If you can't reset the history then you can't restart a podcast in order, or if you do it the hardway you won't be able to pick up where you left off the next day. You do not want to have to find episode #200 in the middle of a 400 episode list. You have to scroll the whole way...
I'm pretty sure spotify is doing this and other user interface glitches/inconveniences to cause people to abandon their account. Forcing people to start a new account is a way to artificially inflate the user counts and make their stock more appealing. I didn't know they were publicly traded already but I'm 99% sure they are doing this on purpose and as a scam.
Second spotify scam: Several times over the last few years I'd hear a ping in the middle of the night and someone from the other side of the world had logged into my account. I'd reset the password, blah blah blah, it would happen again. I'm using phone only so there no way they are cracking my password or sniffing it. They are breaking in on spotify's end. I eventually would abandon that account because of the play history thing and move on. I scratched my head and couldn't fathom why someone would hack into a music player... WTF
Today I tried to resurrect one of my old accounts and found that they had followed a bunch of random smaller artists. I figured it out. People are using botnets to hack spotify, and follow smaller artists to inflate their play counts. Then the artist either gets money for plays or cred with their "millions of listers I have on spotify".
Fuck Spotify, scams everywhere.
Stock is up ~125% over the 2 year history of SPOT