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Spotify Increasing Subscription Prices in the US Again
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We have cancelled all our music subscriptions. We're now buying one or two new albums each month instead. Actually been more fun choosing what to get.
I have thousands of tracks downloaded on my phone, just shuffle through them without any issues. I have also starting using Apple Radio a little too. We flip between Apple Music 1 and Apple Hits (loads in December listening to the Apple Christmas channel).
I have thousands of tracks downloaded on my phone, just shuffle through them without any issues. I have also starting using Apple Radio a little too. We flip between Apple Music 1 and Apple Hits (loads in December listening to the Apple Christmas channel).
Cancelling unnecessary subscriptions in 2025 has saved us upwards of 180 a month including the TV app, we went back to antenna for TV and saving now quite a bit of money going into 2026. They love to bamboozle us and bombard us with subscriptions, so we forget. Take the time to go thru your bank statements and cancel unwanted waste this year.
But artists don’t have the leverage in this situation. Especially if users like you don’t care if we get paid fairly.
Very weak suggestion. It’s like people who say “you can’t criticize our economic system if you participate it in”. We don’t have much of a choice
That’s why we need listeners like you to care. If you care about music enough to pay a monthly subscription to it, why don’t you care enough about the people who create it to expect them to get paid fairly?
After Epic basically won their argument for them and Spotify didn't spend a dime in court or suffered years without their main app in the Apple App Store, it then turns a middle finger to its customers AGAIN for a price increase for no increase in the value of the app. Did they add more music?
Sorry I should have been more specific. Apple has uncompressed / lossless while Spotify has lossless compressed. I've yet to do a listening test on lossless compressed however.
EVERYTHING is creeping up in price. My local utilities are constantly raising prices. Water, electric, gas, insurance, taxes, food, medical...you name it, it's going up. Constantly. But let's crucify music services for asking for an extra buck.
It's basically a snowball effect of increased pricing. This area of society needs to increase pricing which causes this group to increase pricing and round and around it goes. These companies will never LOWER the pricing so we're kinda screwed. I felt this was going to start when COVID happened.
It’s a weird one isn’t it? Like when you look at it objectively, £/$12.99 isn’t a lot to have a lifetime of music (with pods/audiobooks thrown in) available to you, but we’re living in a time where every penny counts and subscription fatigue has kicked in for most.
So I'm not surprised we get these reactions whenever a service ups the price.
So I'm not surprised we get these reactions whenever a service ups the price.
Wow, this comment earned quite a few reactions considering that there is really no way to “bypass Apple’s cut” in the US. Therefore the focus must be on Spotify raising prices in Estonia and Latvia, EU countries, despite the fact they can sell It in 3rd-party app stores. (EUC forcing Apple to allow it, saying it would save customers €€).
A) Spotify’s worldwide price hike last Aug. did not include Estonia and Latvia to the best of my knowledge.
(B) “Companies” is plural
(C) Where in the world have streaming services prices gone down in the last 2 years?
I am not defending the company, I am neither a Spotify subscriber nor user.
They can and do bypass Apple’s cut:
Spotify Updates iPhone App With Out-of-App Payment Options in U.S.
As planned, Spotify has updated its iPhone app in the U.S. with out-of-app pricing and subscription options for its Premium plans. The latest version of the app is now available in the App Store, and the added pricing information is rolling out. Spotify users in the U.S. can now view pricing...
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The nice thing about subscriptions is that they make owning something cheaper up front, and presumably supports continuous maintenance and improvement of said product. The issue then is when you feel like the money you are paying is no longer worth the new features you are getting, and I think many people will eventually reach this stage where a product reaches maturity, feels "complete" but the developer feels compelled to keep releasing new features to justify the price and you are just not getting more of what you want.
The model might work for video streaming where there's always something new to watch, but I wonder how many people actually regularly browse the charts in search of new music to listen to, as opposed to simply playing some familiar tunes that you already have saved to some playlist somewhere.
The other problem here is that it's $13 a month in perpetuity, and if you ever terminate your subscription, you basically have nothing to show for it. So if you quit Spotify after all these years, you would have spent close to $2000 and still not have a single track to your name. For the same amount of money, you could probably have built up quite the formidable music library, or simply purchased them from iTunes at $1 each. Which is what I believe many people are feeling - that they are trapped in their current subs and can't stop paying without losing everything overnight.
I will say just bite the bullet and cut the umbilical cord here and now.
Spotify now has lossless as well... but I don't use high end audio equipment, largely my AirPods Pro, so that doesn't really matter to me at all.
You know what , this will hardly make any difference. They are miles ahead of anybody else in terms of paying subscribers and its a matter of time before the other DSP's follow suit.
As i keep saying, it's pressure from the major record labels.
It does but it is SPOTTY! hahaha Spotify for Mac does support Airplay, but it rarely works for me.
Airplay 1, not Airplay 2. The only way i can play music from Spotify on HomePod is if I route all sound to HomePod through settings->sound.
It is all a part of ensh#tification. Raise prices for customers, often degrade the physical product, then raise prices for the company's own vendors, and finally shove all the ill-gotten money into the pockets of executives and, above all, shareholders. Wealth transfer process complete!EVERYTHING is creeping up in price. My local utilities are constantly raising prices. Water, electric, gas, insurance, taxes, food, medical...you name it, it's going up. Constantly. But let's crucify music services for asking for an extra buck.
(You don't even have to involve a vulturous hedge fund, although one frequently is.)
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Spotify lossless is of a much lower quality than any of the other services, including Apple Music. Spotify's version is capped at 24-bit/44.1kHz on Spotify Premium whereas elsewhere it goes up to 192 kHz. And Spotify provides this four-years-late-to-the-market gem for a total price that is more than its Apple Music competitor per month. And Apple Music provides a higher revenue stream to artists. Whomp whomp...
Oh, and I almost forgot the best thing of all. You get the Apple classical music app with AM.
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Spotify lossless is of a much lower quality than any of the other services, capped at 24-bit/44.1kHz. Apple Music goes up to 192 kHz. Spotify rolled out their compressed lossless offering in 2025, whereas Apple offered high-quality lossless starting in 2021.
You only need a single music subscription service in your life. You don't need to keep 3 of them like with film and tv. Nearly every single song you can think of is available for you to listen to at any time of day. How is that not infinitely better than having to buy every single song?
The fact that it "adds up at the end of the month" is entirely up to your own money management. Like another poster said, everything in life post-covid has gone up in price. EVERYTHING. Literally a plastic grocery bag that used to cost 1kr (my country's currency) for the longest time, now costs 5kr which is absurd.
But subscription services cannot go up in price?
Recently, games have gone up in price a bit. But you know that before that, a game used about 60$ for like 20 years plus years? Even though the people it took to make it went from 20 to 200 and gave development cost went up like crazy.
But no, each time an "expensive" console is released, gamers lose their minds.