Spotify to raise prices in September
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"I spend hours configuring services so I can have a second sandwich with lunch twice a month." - Proud little nerd with poor cost benefits analysis.
I'm very happy to skip a fast food trip to not extend my day job for .000005% of my salary.
Ohhhh maybe I'll save up for a bigger house now that I have opened up budget for that avacado toast!
wrote last edited by [email protected]You are so cool. I am very impressed.
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The bubble where Spotify isn't a massively successful service and most aren't paying for it or music in general.
I never said it wasn't a successful service. I'm only genuinely surprised that so many people pay for what I personally consider marginal improvements. Also thanks for being the usual internet jerk ready to snap at any comment he doesn't like: now I have an idea of who may pay for that subscription.
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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...
Let's say it together: Enshittification
It's been long underway for Spotify; raising prices is just the lastest step.
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Look, I can't expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.
But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.
I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.
Move those goal posts baby, anything to not look like a jackass online
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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...
wrote last edited by [email protected]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 Tidal's porch
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I never said it wasn't a successful service. I'm only genuinely surprised that so many people pay for what I personally consider marginal improvements. Also thanks for being the usual internet jerk ready to snap at any comment he doesn't like: now I have an idea of who may pay for that subscription.
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I'm sure you were genuinely questioning who is paying for Spotify and not being a snarky sarcastic jackass
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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 Tidal's porch
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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You are so cool. I am very impressed.
You're the one out here calling people names, take a moment and think about your comments and behavior. You can only be accountable for your own actions.
Maybe if you don't want some random person shitting on your stupid comments, you shouldn't be so derogatory about different use cases. Think about that and how you ended up here being lectured about being a dick on the Internet.
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Username checks out
wrote last edited by [email protected]I bet you're a habitual reddit user. Comment checks out.
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You're the one out here calling people names, take a moment and think about your comments and behavior. You can only be accountable for your own actions.
Maybe if you don't want some random person shitting on your stupid comments, you shouldn't be so derogatory about different use cases. Think about that and how you ended up here being lectured about being a dick on the Internet.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn't have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn't need to jump in here.
Heck, I specifically addressed my initial comment to "lazy, doormat Spotify users" and for some reason you decided I was talking about you.
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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...
Just saying; cancelling Spotify and changing to Qobuz takes five minutes. Sound quality is amazingly better, the curated recommendations are done by human beings that love music, and 'just works' with everything that Spotify does. (For us, anyway.) It's French, rather than Norwegian-American like Tidal is, if you're trying to stop spending money on everything US at the moment, too.
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Look, I can't expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.
But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.
I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.
Like I said, fuck Joe Rogan, but every big Corp has been responsible for awful shit. At some point you have to live and you have to give in somewhere.
This is coming from someone that self hosts and even I can't be bothered to self host every fucking random ass song in existence.
My value proposition is that my entire family doesn't have to listen to ads and I don't have to spend half my day tracking down songs.
Again, my larger point is that spotify for all its bullshit still isn't streaming video levels of utter bullshit.
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I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn't have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn't need to jump in here.
Heck, I specifically addressed my initial comment to "lazy, doormat Spotify users" and for some reason you decided I was talking about you.
Words have meaning, whatever gets you through the day
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Like I said, fuck Joe Rogan, but every big Corp has been responsible for awful shit. At some point you have to live and you have to give in somewhere.
This is coming from someone that self hosts and even I can't be bothered to self host every fucking random ass song in existence.
My value proposition is that my entire family doesn't have to listen to ads and I don't have to spend half my day tracking down songs.
Again, my larger point is that spotify for all its bullshit still isn't streaming video levels of utter bullshit.
Well, you're right. Everyone has to draw their own line. I'll agree with you this is probably less egregious than some, and I personally do make make purchases I shouldn't from institutions I shouldn't to get by.
But I do every single one of those holding my nose and acknowledging I'm contributing to a problem.
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Words have meaning, whatever gets you through the day
. I know it's hard being a nerd with nobody around.And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I'm just a guy on the internet. I don't know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I'd think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!
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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...
My main beef with spotify is their attempt to privatize and monopolize podcasting.
Spotify offers audio hosting and a large userbase, but does not provide rss. A few people I like are trapped in this, and I have no way to listen to their shows apart from using spotify. They refuse to understand that this is an issue, just like youtubers are ok with lock-in.
Podcasting infrastructure is not monopolized yet, like video is. It is even bigger problem for me than underpayid artists.
So boycotting, and if you undersrand that, you should too.
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Just saying; cancelling Spotify and changing to Qobuz takes five minutes. Sound quality is amazingly better, the curated recommendations are done by human beings that love music, and 'just works' with everything that Spotify does. (For us, anyway.) It's French, rather than Norwegian-American like Tidal is, if you're trying to stop spending money on everything US at the moment, too.
They don't have any other recommendations apart from those human made ones though? Couldn't find what I wanted.
The UI is awful and their artist pages are normally blank for indy artists.
The migration is pretty seamless though, and they apparently pay their artists way better.
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Lazy doormat Spotify users: "Okay... but this is the LAST, LAST, LAST TIME FOR REAL. Do it again and there'll be a hashtag and a series of Tiktok memes!"
I dumped it months ago and went back to Deezer.
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And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I'm just a guy on the internet. I don't know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I'd think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!
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I'm sure you were genuinely questioning who is paying for Spotify and not being a snarky sarcastic jackass
This shit is like watching Trump tards get upset when South Park takes calls out their shit.Damn, you got me! Now I have to rethink my whole plan to undermine Spotify's revenues one comment a time!
