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As someone else has stated, you can add music you own (or at least, music to which you have files for) directly in to Spotify, though I'll say the reliability is "ok" if you are listening on multiple devices. My guess is they don't host those files the same as the others. Maybe if you have a server or computer that's always on, you can put the file on that, and add it to Spotify on that device, maybe Spotify will just feed you the file from your computer
That's fine, am a Linux user and not a big deal running a file/media server, also have large enough SD cards, so still not a problem storing music either. I would just like to be able to purchase some new songs just so I can be able to adjust the playlists to something more to my tastes for particular songs over the entire genre or band's albums which can often contain other bands/songs that just bug the living daylights out of me, heh.
I see, well if you're more in the self-hosted side of things other people have given some suggestions that seem like it would work well for your needs.
I used to have a huge collection of music I'd accumulated and only played files locally, but I've gotten lazy over the years and am a Spotify boy now. I will say that it's been irritating me to no end with how bad shuffle is; my main playlist has over 500 songs in it and I know there's at least a hundred or so that I haven't heard in months because Spotify's "shuffle" thinks it knows what I want to listen to more than I do.