Spotify to raise prices in September
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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
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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."
wrote last edited by [email protected]"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!
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wrote last edited by [email protected]
I obviously do understand why people use Spotify.
But you are correct; my phone has 128GB internal storage, my hard drive music collection is smaller than that. There has been solutions for syncing (a curated list of) music to mobile devices for a long time. There are many - and frankly much better - ways to discover new music outside of Spotify. There are some really cool music only internet radio stations out there.
And I'm not even talking about self-hosting, which simply cannot be recommended to everyone.People defending Spotify always come back to convenience, and always dismiss the disdvantages of generated playlists, and downplay the suckness of AI content. And never acknowledge that alternatives exist, right down to NOT using a music streaming service.
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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
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.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Username checks out
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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.
