Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year
psmgx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mark my words, a Disney style price raise is in the cards, probably before summer 2024
They can’t exactly afford to go higher than the round 10 we have a month. It will cost them a lot of customers just from the sheer inconvenience caused by the change in gift cards.
99% of people ain’t gonna use online banking for Spotify and instead use gift cards which happen to sit at a very convenient price. Usually laziness makes it easier for streaming services, but in this case laziness makes it harder.
Given the recent successes of other streaming platforms integrating ads into previously ad free levels, I think you're right.
A higher price I can stand but ads in a paid service? If they do that, I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t just use ublock origin with Spotify on the web or a modded APK instead.
anewbeginning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At this point Spotify offers less than competitors with Spotify hi-fi being a bunch of bullshit. I only subscribe to spotify when they offer me 3 months for the price of one.
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 11 months ago
What competitors do you recommend?
I use soundcloud and have used Bandcamp but Bandcamp got sold to Epic.
I have also heard of Faircamp which looks promising.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
one of my friends uses deezer, there is actual lossless audio there.
war@kbin.social 11 months ago
Tidal sells snake-oil hi-fi, though. MQA is pseudo-scientific bullshit, and the fact that Tidal promotes it disqualifies them from serious consideration. Spotify's maximum sound quality is more than enough for all purposes. "Audiophiles" thinking they can tell the difference between V0 and lossless continues to be the biggest fucking joke in the universe. But hey, those are the same people who'll shell out $50K for an external DAC despite the technology having been solved to the point where a Chinese $5 DAC on a motherboard does the exact same thing.
It's an absolutely fucking hilarious clown show where absolutely no one has any fucking idea about anything.
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 11 months ago
Nice I will give Deezer a try.
deadly4u@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I switched to a TIDAL subscription a couple of months ago. The whole experience, apart from sound quality, is a downgrade from Spotify Premium. I still recommend it to people because supposedly they pay a better cut per stream to artists. The sound quality upgrade is quite noticable if you have good sound gear.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Apple Music is also very good. Lossless at no extra cost.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 11 months ago
I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music. I have an eclectic collection of music and though, to be fair, I haven't listened to a lot of it in a while, I would still like the option. Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me. So right now I use YouTube Music because it's so easy. I may switch to Plex now that I have a decent internet connection.
uzay@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Epic already sold off Bandcamp to another company (songtradr) and it’s probably not an improvement.