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Spotify Increasing Subscription Prices in the US Again

Spotify is the biggest scam ever. I use it only because I'm on the family plan, but if I ever get kicked off of it, I will either use something else like TIDAL or no streaming at all (though it is nice when traveling).
 
turbineseaplane said:
The one main, huge, mega drawback would be:

You can never stop paying and still have your music and be able to listen to it whenever and however you like.
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Yes, but that in itself doesn't really last forever either. There used to be vinyls (still a thing, I know), cassettes and then disks - and each disappeared or is disappearing in favor of streaming. You can still listen to your cassettes if you'd like, but it's not exactly convenient if you have nearly 3000 songs like me.

I bought many games for Playstation 3 and I cannot play them anymore - disk or no disk. You don't really own the games you buy on Stream either. And Spotify and Apple Music itself may be replaced one day. Tidal is more likely.
 
rm5 said:
Spotify is the biggest scam ever. I use it only because I'm on the family plan, but if I ever get kicked off of it, I will either use something else like TIDAL or no streaming at all (though it is nice when traveling).
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How is a service with nearly every single song in existence and podcast in existence a scam? Maybe use another word to express your thoughts?
 
I'm glad I left Spotify last year

Ek financing weapons, UI cluttered with podcasts and audibooks I never asked for, price increases pretty much every year
 
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Jolly-boo said:
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?
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I didn't say subs can't increase in price, but the whole point of the article is that Spotify has price hiked every year for the last 3 years.

My other point is most services are going to subscription which means another bill to pay, manage and potentially in the end, cost more for everyone. Subscriptions thrive on the "gym membership" method, where companies laugh all the way to the bank when people intermittently or perpetually don't use the service/ product, but continue to pay ... or forget to cancel (hence the "free trial" push). Add each piece of digital software/service you use plus every bill you're already managing, and that's a lot, especially when people are already struggling financially.

People have a right to be disgruntled because everything's going up, and we're tired of companies perpetually with their hands in our pockets. Hopefully it gets to a point where consumers say "f@ck this", and just stop consuming.
 
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P-DogNC said:
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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I didn't think Spotify did uncompressed. I thought they were using lossless compression like FLAC or something like that.
 
turbineseaplane said:
The one main, huge, mega drawback would be:

You can never stop paying and still have your music and be able to listen to it whenever and however you like.
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Also, when a subscription service cancel their service you lose everything.

I started buy records in my early teens. In my mid-twenties I had 400 LPs, in my fifties an additional 3000 CDs (and everything ripped and backuped). I still love my old LPs.

Nobody can guarantee that Spotify is around in 10, 20 or 30 years. Maybe something else, maybe more expensive, maybe divided into several providers, who knows?. I for certain would not like to start from scratch again building up playlists, hunting down my old favorites. But if you do not care about your past listening habits and live in the present that is probably not much of a challenge?
 
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I only have 3 subscriptions :

- Apple Music
- Youtube Premium
- Netflix


Netflix is not year round, it's when I want to catch up on a couple of shows , then unsubscribe when I'm done watching them

I watch Youtube everyday so the subscription to Premium is worth it.

I really want to like Youtube Music since it comes with Premium and I wouldn't have to pay for AM, but YTM is lacking so many basic QOL features and its UI is a mess (and it's getting AI slop too); offline listening is also buggy.

YTM is just an afterthought for Google
 
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