Submitted 8 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-10-03/audiobooks-included-in-spotify-premium/
cross-posted from !android@lemdro.id
Will the books be relentlessly interrupted by shitty ads? If so, then no thanks.
The podcasts are bad enough, with their weasel-worded ‘listen to music ad-free’ tagline for premium meaning that on top of the podcasts’ ads, Spotify inserts ads at completely random points. Knowing that most people are listening to podcasts while their hands are busy doing something else
LMAO not a good start.
To start, we’re offering each Premium individual, as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts, 15 hours of listening per month—giving them the ability to enjoy as many titles as they want within that monthly allocation.
Sweet, so if I want to listen to audiobooks with premium, and I listen to one hour a day, by the middle of the month I have to pay to continue listening? Fuck off with this shit.
Holy shit lol. So generous of them.
I forgot I signed up for audible and have a stock pile of audiobook credits that I need to use
reminder that you can just buy audiobooks and listen to them and avoid having to pay for a 15 hour a month maximum listen time subscription, a subscription that I’m just going to assume pays creators like crap because that’s the Spotify M.O.
even audible is better than Spotify, at least you can listen to a whole book in a month.
Spotify seems to already have audiobooks available for sale when I login from Canada. I suspect the free listening is intended to drive people toward their audiobook store.
This appears to be an advertisement. Why post it here?
Instant access to whatever until it arbitrarily doesn’t anymore but the price increases? I think I know this song.
So this is not coming to EU at all?
MonosyllabicAmerican@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
You know what else has 150,000+ audiobooks if you’re in the US? The library. It’s free and Overdrive’s UI is just as good/bad as Spotify’s. Fuck Spotify, the fact that a music app in 2023 doesn’t have a thumbs down button is insane.
ijeff@lemdro.id 8 months ago
My library actually moved over to Libby by OverDrive!
MonosyllabicAmerican@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Same, I forgot/mixed up the name.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gonna say that this is cool but monopoly of tech and information is not. I will always feel like this is like a strange guy offering candy out of a van. Like I know I shouldn’t but damn I like candy
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And you can pay for access to an out of state library for larger systems such as Stark. Brooklyn public library was my go to until they discontinued the offering.
But still there’s so many items to choose for a bargain of a yearly fee.