Spotify to raise prices in September
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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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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.
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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
