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Spotify to Raise US Subscription Prices Early Next Year
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Who chooses an App Store based on what developers are paid? 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yep, I have. If it sounds like I haven't got a clue how they work it's because your ears are full of bias.
Have you ever even used a CD? You can pick what songs you want, you can even program to only play the tracks you select.
The good news is that even if I did have them, I wouldn't have to rent said airbags from Toyota for the rest of my life, unlike music from streaming services.
This! Going to the record store and looking in the POP or METAL sections was a way of being introduced to other bands or albums to try out. Cover art, liner notes, credits to the musicians, something tangible... Wonderful.
I don't get this...?Yep...assuming you collapse and draw your last breath in Dec 2026.
Spotify offers lossless playback with premium memberships. Is it not available in your region ?
the streaming model still only pays the record labels and still depends on the contracts between the artist and label to determine how much the artists gets paid. the only way for them to get more money from fans is you going to their concerts and buying their merchandise.
apple doesn't offer a free/ad tier and if you want the artist to get more of your money, it is better to go-to their concerts or buy their merchandise at the concerts.
I'm a Spotify Premium user, been on the Duo plan since 2018. They just increased the price a few months ago, and now they're hiking it up again? Lately, I've been using YouTube Music more often anyway. I barely touch features like 'Daily Mix'; I only really use 'On Repeat'. At this point, I guess any music app is fine, I don't need AI to manage my music like before. My last concert was Coldplay, and the latest vinyl I bought was Oasis. Hope the artists are getting some of that money, though.
Unfortunately I have been trying out different services over the past year or two and always return to Spotify because the ui/ux is just by far the best for me. I am actually shocked that other companies are not able to keep up.
Up next is deezer sich you can get three month for free right now if you sign up for the first time.
I never had issues with Spotify audio, the whole talk about lossless reminds me a lot of how noobs talk about photographic lenses. They got all the data to back their talking up but most of them are not doing anything with it while I can shoot great photos with m42 lenses I picked up on a fleemarket.
Go check for yourself if you actually can tell the difference:
www.npr.org
What I like about music streaming is that no one has been dump enough yet to split it up into different companies like they do with video.
Up next is deezer sich you can get three month for free right now if you sign up for the first time.
I never had issues with Spotify audio, the whole talk about lossless reminds me a lot of how noobs talk about photographic lenses. They got all the data to back their talking up but most of them are not doing anything with it while I can shoot great photos with m42 lenses I picked up on a fleemarket.
Go check for yourself if you actually can tell the difference:
How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
A hi-def test for your ears (and your audio equipment): Listen to these songs and see if you can tell the difference between an MP3 and an uncompressed audio file.
www.npr.org
What I like about music streaming is that no one has been dump enough yet to split it up into different companies like they do with video.
Artists are getting f@kd in every part of the way. You’d not believe how many people are cutting a bigger piece of the pie than what the artists gets in every step.
I think it's interesting how much passion this thread has raised! In the end, everyone can just choose what they prefer. Why the hate from so many here?
but so much love for apple, even though you still only get 5 GB of icloud even if you have multiple iPhones/iDevices.