I too love Spotify, and refuse to pay. And fully agree that if I were on a train and herd someone answering his phone or introducing himself with ‘Hi I’m Jonathan … ‘ and I recognized the voice, I would turn, from my usual mild-mannered self, and gaffer tape his mouth shut, demanding that he never speaks again. But I think I’m hearing less of him at the moment, as more companies realise it is fantastic way to advertise the Spotify adverts are becoming less frequent, which is good. Although there are only so many times I can hear someone playing me silence to demonstrate how to save water, or telling me that a boiler jacket could save me some ’serious dough, bro’ before the prospect of upgrading seems all the more inviting. But it’s not going to happen, not until I can take track with me on my mp3 player!

Sorry, but if you refuse to pay then you deserve Jonathan.

Or did you mistakenly think that Spotify was a Public Service Broadcaster?

Pay up you tight git!

You’re listening to some 2 million + tracks, in decent fidelity, with no waiting for buffers, and you’re complaining because…? The music is free, as long as you agree to listen to a few adverts. They don’t play in between every (free!!) track, in fact, as you say, it’s pretty much an interjection every 10 songs. What’s more, they don’t last as long as adverts on commercial radio.
That’s the deal – if you don’t want the adverts you pay for the premium service, and if you won’t pay for the service you 1) stop whining for the reasons given above, or 2) get the hell outta dodge!

I’m sorry, but I fail to see any problem here…?

I’ve been using Spotify for 2 months and have yet to hear an advert. Why? Because I always beat the program to the punch and manually select the next track I’d like to hear rather than wait for it to automatically go to the next track in my playlist. It’s a bit annoying, yes, but it’s a solution worth using. That is, until Spotify figure it out and ‘fix’ it.

The voice on the girl talking about ‘music in the bedroom’ annoys the f**k out of me… Lol, my CAPTCHA is ‘environment rampages’.

The adverts that Spotify presents to you are based on where it believes you are currently located. If you really can’t stand Jonathan, shift your Internet point of presence. Pick an IP address in a Free Spotify country whose language you don’t understand and the audio ads go from annoying to entertaining nonsense. Swedish ads include things such as casinos, condoms and cancer. You have the opportunity to learn the Swedish for “grow a neat mustache and support the fight against prostate cancer.” Indeed, women have their pink ribbons, what do us men have?

If you appear to be somewhere for which Spotify doesn’t have advertising inventory, you won’t get any ads at all. If Kid_Spock and his brother have different IP addresses, this could explain their different experiences. Although, if Spotify is consistently misclassifying Kid_Spock’s IP address, it’ll soon complain and, after fourteen days, lock him out, until he uses an IP address that Spotify believes matches the country in his account’s profile.

I advise sticking to the countries for which the free service is available. Spotify Ltd should still get paid for delivering the ads, even if you can’t understand them.

Spotify is an amazing service and here in the UK has around 1 million users already.

Its spread so fast , the only thing that would slow it down would be labels removing content. Users seem to be 100% behind it.

http://www.dittomusic.com are also putting unsigned content onto Spotify free of charge which is great for unsigned bands.

I systematically use Spotify for everything i can get my hands on, iTunes for anything i cant!!!

Seems like the old adage that OP knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.