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Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
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[–] 94 points 2 years ago (27 children)

Cool, now can we get a cheaper plan that just plays music?

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Sorry, best we can do is make a new tier at the same price that only plays music, while we jack up the price of the new Premium Plan to account for 'rising market costs'!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    To be fair spotify bleads money, because the big music labels are sucking most of the money out of spotify.

    Podcasts and stuff are their way of trying to get out of that uncomfortable situation, because they own the rights of the stuff produced via their platform.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Hard to beat $10 for unlimited music and podcasts + soon to be audiobooks

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It's understandable why they are doing this. Apparently the company has never ever made any profits, and since the main 3 record labels are demanding 70% of the revenue from Spotify, they can't do anything to change that revenue split to 50-50 instead as an example.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    15 hours per month... just use Libby and a library card and get unlimited audiobooks for free.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    https://libro.fm is a an interesting alternative to audible if you can pay.

    No DRM and if your local bookshop registered themselves a percentage of what you buy is paid to them.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    "To start, we’re offering each Premium individual, as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts, 15 hours of listening per monthβ€”giving them the ability to enjoy as many titles as they want within that monthly allocation.

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    For those super audiophiles who use up their 15 hours before their monthly billing cycles refresh, you can purchase a 10-hour top-up to finish that series. Not sure how many hours you have left? Check it at any time in your in-app settings. "

    No cost listed on how much the top-ups are.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I don't know if they have these, but for the purpose of clarity it doesn't matter.

    The Martian is 11 hours.
    The Color of Magic is 7 hours.

    That's two audio books that together surpassed their joke of a monthly allotment. Two.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I'd really love an audio book service like Netflix but 15 hours is a joke, that is 2 days worth of listening for me personally and a lot of books you wouldn't be able to finish in that time.

    I've tried the majority of the audio books services out there and they are all a load of shit, I think I'll stick to piracy at this point, at least then I can keep the books I enjoy too to come back to again.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Use Libby, with your library card. Unlimited audiobooks and works for almost any library.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    No, no it doesn't. For a start I am not in the US so it isn't Libby and secondly I tried the library card / app route and the selection is woefully shite.

    It doesn't even have what would be the most popular books for example say Lord of the Rings. It has a seemingly random selection. On top of that they have minimal licenses for the books so if you do manage to find something interesting you want to listen to someone may have already "rented it out" via the app and so you'd have to wait for them to "return" it before you can listen.

    Library cards and apps (at least where I am) are one of the poorest choices available and that is saying something going up against the utter dogshit that is audible.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Thanks for sharing! I do think audiobooks are a much better fit than trying to make podcasts exclusive and paywalled.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Great. More garbage I don't want shoved in my face.

    I'm getting real tired of modern day UX in apps.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    People on here are acting like Spotify raises their price every two weeks like Netflix or something. This is an added feature that will likely not raise the costs to the user as it is intended to reduce the part of revenue they give to music labels (i.e. this helps keep the price you pay the same because they can't make a profit, so the alternative is higher prices)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    15 hours is pathetic lol. Need to hurry up and move my music library off of Spotify

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

    Podcasts in the app are terrible but this is something if actually consider switching to Spotify for

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Dang nothing in Canada yet it looks like

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I sense a price increase coming...

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