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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 25 points 3 years ago* (13 children)

Honestly, it's totally fair imo.
People who hadn't experience before-Spotify times can't really appreciate the value. I'd love all information to be free and all but just the indexing and data hosting service would be worth 11$/mo. People being a bit silly here ngl. If you can't afford 11$ for this service then honestly you either don't need it or you need re-evaluate your budgeting.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    yeah the price increase isn't too awful for me. I use Spotify all the time so premium is totally worth it for me. and I know rates aren't that high but I'm happy to know I'm actually paying the people I listen to somewhat!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Ah yes, poor people and people living on minimum wage don't need music. And if they really needed it, they would just skip a meal.

    Indexing and data hosting is worth $11 per month? Music uses very little space and bandwidth. Listening to 3 hours every day for a month ends up being around 10gb of bandwidth. If they were using expensive on-demand AWS bandwidth, that would cost them 50 cents. They aren't, they have edge caches all over and almost certainly pay less than 10 cents.

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

    Don't... need... music...? There are plenty of free streaming options, or even the damn radio. Premium Spotify is far from the only option.

    Being able to listen to anything you want whenever you please is 100% a luxury -- and one that wasn't available until pretty recently.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I really wonder about the age of the posters. I remember when the norm for music was $1 a song, which very quickly became $1.29. Spotify is so incredibly dirt cheap compared to that. But if people didn't experience that heyday of $1 per song, they're looking at this from a completely different perspective.

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

    As if piracy, free youtube etc. doesn't exist. If you can't afford 11$/mo and can't afford to invest time to get around it then you really have bigger problems to complain about like lack of social security and wealth distribution. Complaining about this just appears like a comical waste of energy tbh.

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

    Not everyone wants to listen to music illegally? And not everyone has unlimited data or can afford it for youtube/etc. Wealth distribution and a lack of social security are huge problems but like, bro it’s not a good look to criticize working class folks for (rightfully) complaining about yet another round of inflation.

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