Spotify to Raise US Subscription Prices Early Next Year

[justanotherdave]

Who honestly chooses a music subscription service based on what artists are paid?

Who chooses an App Store based on what developers are paid? 😉

 

[justanotherdave]

It’s not that different. If you went browsing in a record store in the old days, you’d realistically end up trying music that the store (or its corporate masters) chose to stock and promote.

On Spotify, maybe the algorithm chooses things or maybe you listen to human-curated playlists. But in the end it’s the same, if you like something you add it to your library or favorite it. If you don’t, you skip.

 

[CocktailHour]

One more reason to boycott.

 

[buckwheet]

Wow... yeah, I'd definitely get a temporary suspension if I described exactly what I think of Spotify...

 

[GalvaJ]

I really don’t get why there’s a large chunk of people that are entirely devoted to Spotify even if it’s more expensive, less profitable for artists, has less features and a worse quality audio.

Even if there’s several tools to migrate all music and playlists they refuse and prefer to keep paying more…

The app is better in some ways. One issue that's annoyed me about the Apple Music app for years is how the app just forgets what I'm listening to when I've paused for a while. For example, I can be listening to an album and hit pause. When I come back few hours later that day and reopen the app to continue listening the album/song is gone. It's no longer in the Now Playing. I have to search for the album/track and start again. I never have this issue with Spotify. I can hit pause, come back a week later and it still has me exactly where I left off. Those tiny little quality of life things become important over time, at least for me. This has persisted across multiple different iPhones and fresh installs of iOS (no restores).

Also on quality, I probably speak for most consumers when I say that they don't notice a difference on the quality of a song on Spotify vs Apple Music. Most people nowadays are listening through devices like AirPods where you're not going to get lossless quality which so many in this thread have mentioned. Lots of peoples streaming apps are probably set to automatically adjust the audio quality based on the quality of their internet connection and they're likely none the wiser to it.

Most people just want to open an app and start listening to music. They're not worried about sound quality or niche features like lossless. They don't care about behind the scenes business shenanigans between steaming services, record companies and artists.

They just want an app to hear some music when they're driving to work in the morning or cleaning their house.

 

[Imperial926]

Maybe because many think it's a better music service? You may like everything Apple, but my opinion (and I'm not alone) is that the curated playlists, among other things, are better with Spotify (which is true for me). It's hardly extraordinary...

I'm a classical music professional so I'm not really interested in curated playlists plus the Apple Classical app is a fine extension of the regular app.

 

[Chopper9]

It seems extraordinary to me that with all the advantages of the Apple eco-system anyone would even vaguely consider using Spotify. Just to top things off their payments to artists are also amongst the lowest.

You clearly never used Spotify. All the BS whining - it's still FAR superior to Apple's wreck of a music service. Not even close.

 

[Imperial926]

You clearly never used Spotify. All the BS whining - it's still FAR superior to Apple's wreck of a music service. Not even close.

No lossless, poor payments to artists and I found it hard to find whole albums but maybe that was just me. The best by far is actually Qobuz.

 

[ds10]

You'd think they might toss an extra hundredth of a cent to musicians for each stream while they're at it... Spotify is great for finding new music and artists. But please consider then going to the artist's web site or Bandcamp page, and buying the album. We make more in one album sale than many thousands of streams on any of the streaming services.