Spotify to raise prices in September
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A big part of it that finally made me pay for spotify is it helping me to find new music. Its not perfect, but when the app actually works correctly it will queue up music similar to the song or playlist you searched and it can help you find new bands or other songs by the artists you like. When i was just listening to my downloaded music I'd get stuck in a rut of the same few albums or artists.
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It's cheaper if you have 5 friends and take the family plan. I'm paying ~€2 a month for the last couple of years.
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It's easy, consistent, and they put new music in front of you.
That's all most people want.Self hosting is a pain. It's work. Nobody wants to fuck with servers while their kids are yelling cause music is down with the rest of entertainment.
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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 make that subscription cost back in 10 minutes of work.
Doormat Spotify users
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I don’t see why people hate Spotify so much. I used to go out and pay £10 for an album decades ago, multiple times a month sometimes. Now I can basically listen to anything for the price of an album a month. Plus, you can play Spotify on just about any device, even all the open source solutions that Netflix blocked like 15 years ago. On top of that it’s Swedish rather than American.
Swedish or american- they’re still exploiting artists. Capitalists gonna capitalist.
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I make that subscription cost back in 10 minutes of work.
Doormat Spotify users
"I'm SO good at making money that I don't care when people cheat me out of it for no other reason than because they feel like it. This is something I am proud of."
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I don’t see why people hate Spotify so much. I used to go out and pay £10 for an album decades ago, multiple times a month sometimes. Now I can basically listen to anything for the price of an album a month. Plus, you can play Spotify on just about any device, even all the open source solutions that Netflix blocked like 15 years ago. On top of that it’s Swedish rather than American.
Lots of reasons.
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They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.
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At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.
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The 'fake artists' controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland 'playlist' mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.
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Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.
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Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.
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You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.
In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.
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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...
I can't even imagine paying for it to begin with.
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You guys are paying for Spotify?
Yes. Go back to your bubble now.
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I can't even imagine paying for it to begin with.
I bought one of those $5 for the entire year accounts off some shady website.
It lasted for 5 years.
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Yes. Go back to your bubble now.
What bubble?
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A few hours, when you know what you're doing. A few month when you have to figure it out, and maybe even then, it won't work, or you'll have lost a lot of money trying.
This should be a lot easier to do, than it is
Good Lord, others like you do exist!
This might be the actual first time I've seen someone just call out the bullshit for some of these people running janky services who don't have a family they need to support.
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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...
Also Daniel Ek is investing in AI war company:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/spotifys-daniel-ek-leads-investment-in-defense-startup-helsing.html
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Dropped it for Tidal years ago, never looked back.
I've started collecting CDs and building my own Jellyfin library so I don't depend on streaming services.
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I don’t see why people hate Spotify so much. I used to go out and pay £10 for an album decades ago, multiple times a month sometimes. Now I can basically listen to anything for the price of an album a month. Plus, you can play Spotify on just about any device, even all the open source solutions that Netflix blocked like 15 years ago. On top of that it’s Swedish rather than American.
If I'm renting music, at least give me FLAC level quality.
No, 320 kbps won't do.
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It's easy, consistent, and they put new music in front of you.
That's all most people want.Self hosting is a pain. It's work. Nobody wants to fuck with servers while their kids are yelling cause music is down with the rest of entertainment.
Yea it is a bit of a pain, but also I haven't found a reliable setup like rrsuite for music.
Ideally it should allow for noticing a song on Spotify and transfer direct to the server
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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'm quite unhappy with spotify. I don't care about the price, but it keeps repeating the same and same music again, and the percentage of crappy AI music is increasing. You can clearly hear it. Their client isn't open source, and it's just a wrapped website. It sucks.
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Also Daniel Ek is investing in AI war company:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/spotifys-daniel-ek-leads-investment-in-defense-startup-helsing.html
And Trump!
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What bubble?
The bubble where Spotify isn't a massively successful service and most aren't paying for it or music in general.
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"I'm SO good at making money that I don't care when people cheat me out of it for no other reason than because they feel like it. This is something I am proud of."
I mean spotify is one of those things where it's harder to move away and the cost benefit is harder to argue against. It's not like the streaming bullshit that has happened where everything is fragmented and you'd need 200 substations to watch the movies you want.
The thing that sucks with Spotify is the money they gave fucking Joe Rogan
