Spotify to raise prices in September

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• RevolverSly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet, despite the subscription price or its raise, Spotify still insists on forcing promoted content on your homepage.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Military defence is expensive

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• Keyboard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will cancel it

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  gotta give even more money to joe fuckhead

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use Bandcamp when I want to buy and YouTube with ad blocker for streaming.

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• bnak@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Music costs??

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• callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People pay corporations for music? Morons.

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I switched to Tidal when I realised their stream quality was, at the minimum, double Spotify, and cheaper. Then all the controversial shit about Spotty came out and I was just shaking my head disapprovingly from the balcony

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  • TheMonk@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hell yeah tidal friend. Same here. The only annoying thing is its memory for where I was in a song/playlist. Seems like I can click away and it forgets where I was. That’s the one thing Spotify has over tidal

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• JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t even imagine paying for it to begin with.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bought one of those $5 for the entire year accounts off some shady website.

    It lasted for 5 years.

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• dil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ive been using apple music for years, mainly like how for edm it tends to have highquality recorded live sets for all djs, and they are seperated instead of being one long continuous track, like youll get

  1. song
  2. song2/song3
  3. song4
  4. song5
  5. song6/song7/song8 Most convenient way to listen to them and get all the track names.

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• Plurrbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spotify is still a thing?! Who knew… so many better options out there… hoping they crumble between artists leaving and no one wanting to deal with the drama and prices… they are about to be the “new vine” of pitfall and demise! Bye bye bye! Let the company burn!!

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  • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What better options are there? I’m old so don’t know

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    • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      if you don’t mind downloading the music then Nictoine+, it’s a GUI for soulseek. essentially Napster/Limewire. Anything you can get on spotify you can pretty much get there.

      Keep in mind, like Napster, it takes time to find things you want. If you have your own server or hell even a cloud server with unlimited bandwidth and a good chunk of space you can put your music on there that way you can just stream it to whatever device you use to listen to music. Essentially a media server.

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    • Plurrbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have Apple Music because I am a student so I pay way less than most but it downloads all my songs and playlists and can use it without data. But I also have the iHeartradio app which has my fave radio station plus so many podcasts.

      But there is Apple Music, Tidal, iHeartradio, Soundcloud, Amazon Music, SiriusFM, qobuz, there are many.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No biggie. I never had subscriptions. I always thought it was a waste of money.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Will they be raising their rates in India? Because that’s where Spotify thinks I live now.

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• Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube

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• rmic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago

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• Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I’m going back to plexamp I guess.

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• ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And?

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• Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there any reasonable option that I can use on a Garmin watch standalone? I like to run without my phone and listen to a podcast and Spotify has been my go to.

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  • gravitywell@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can your watch play mp3s? Most podcasts are available for download that way too.

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    • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it can, but I don’t actually know what subscription services or how it works to get podcasts downloaded. Spotify has been pretty easy. I guess it’s time to look into this stuff. I have been doing this stuff legit for a while, but I guess I could get back on the high seas too if I have to. I just wanted to make sure the people making content were getting paid, but I think Spotify is bad for that too. So tired of good services getting slowly worse.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can rip MP3 files by using a Youtube-to-MP3 converter.

  Just stop using Spotify entirely.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    github.com/justin025/onthespot

    Way better. My personal library is reaching 375k songs.

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And once you have them ripped (however you choose to do that), host them via a media server so you can access them from whatever device you like.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there any music on spotify that isn’t also on youtube? Youtube has practically everything, it has always seemed to me. I’ve never been tempted by spotify.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The 128 bitrate on YouTube is quite the drag IMO except for like carmusic maybe.

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    • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This and the fact that Youtube are just as much robbing gits… like I have said, I don’t want to sound mean but generally I’d like the artists to get paid for their work somehow. Now how to do that is the hard bit

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• hornedfiend@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What an awful website. You either sell your soul or you throw away your money. No thanks, I will stick to the post title.

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• FalseTautology@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool I can’t pay any less than the zero I currently am subscribed at to not use their service

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• dax@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I cancelled it when they started to crack down on family plans with separate households. At that point it just wasn’t worth the money to me anymore. I wonder how much more price hikes the remaining customers are going to tolerate. At some point it becomes cheaper to just outright buy music…

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably is cheaper for a lot of people who just listen to the same stuff week after week

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• xorollo@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re on Android you won’t need a family plan, just get ReVanced and patch YT Music so it’s ad-free and plays in the background.

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  • invertedspear@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amazon’s Prime Music? Most people have prime anyway, I think that comes with the ad version. Less than Spotify to switch to add free.

    If you still have access to any .edu email addresses, you can get student rates for Apple Music, and probably others.

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    • xorollo@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the main thing Spotify has going for it is indie artists, without a label. And so a large portion of my collection will not be on services like Tidal or Apple Music

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