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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 148 points 3 years ago (11 children)

This guy asking the real questions. They’re already fucking over their artists, please give me a reason to start pirating music again.

Please.

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  • [–] 63 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They have an estimated 212 million premium users. That’s an additional 2.5 Billion dollars they’re looking at per year.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I've found more new artists in a few weeks with Nicotine+ than years of the Spotify algorithm.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’m curious, how are you discovering new music this way? my understanding of soulseek and nicotine+ is that they’re great for finding music by artists you already know, but idk how they would work for discovery..?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    You look for stuff you already know and then browse the users library, if they have stuff you already like then anything you don't recognize is probably also to your taste, especially if they're sharing a smaller collection.

    Perhaps I'm lucky that there's not much I don't like because it's a similar strategy I used to use for traditional media, buy something I like and get something out of the bargain bin I've never heard of and 9/10 it was pure gold.

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