I'm curious—is the music you were listening to on SC not available on Spotify, or not in the same amounts? Obviously there is a lot of new, original stuff on SC that's often not 'officially' released or distributed. But it would seem that, nonetheless, that's still not enough of a draw to build (enough of) a subscription service around it?
I think I could find stuff on Spotify, but I have a feed on SC and the handful of artists (mostly independent) post stuff daily. On Spotify you listen to songs from "official" albums. Its a completely different feel IMO.
And no, for me a lot of the stuff I listen to is not on Spotify.
Right. Super interesting. This lends anecdotal creedence to my post on another comment: "I only listen to music that was made today" could be an amazing guiding principal for SoundCloud that differentiates it from Spotify et al.