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Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week (9to5mac.com)
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According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

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[–] 68 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I'm all for bashing corporations, but y'all, this is a $1 increase for the first time in years. Not only is that reasonable, If anything, the rate of inflation is such that this is still effectively cheaper than it has been just a couple years ago.

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

    Or you use a good adblocker and then get extremely irritated when you once in a while have to listen to an ad ;)

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

    Yep. Between ad blockers/sponsorblock and my content choices it's actually extremely rare that I encounter any traditional advertising. I don't even know how I used to sit through the old cable TV ads. Now I'm already searching for something else to do 5 seconds in

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    If the ads are baked in, just hit the 15s jump button a couple of times until you get back into the podcast. The ones I listen to usually play music during the ads, so when I hear the music is over I know I'm back in the podcast.

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

    Sorry, didn't realize you were referring to promos that Spotify runs for their content. Yeah I guess they don't have a way to turn that off, but it's a simple button to get past.

    Also, fast forwarding really is not a big deal. While I'm out walking my dog and kiddo I just tap my ear buds twice and it fast forwards 15 seconds past the baked in ads in the podcast.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I listen to things in my car a lot where the only forward button on that interface is a skip to the next episode button. I'd have to pull out my phone and open the app on my phone to find the skip forward 15s button.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Pretty sure the only ads on spotify podcasts are the ones built in to the podcast recording, like the audio file includes the ads

    At least i never get any ads from spotify listening to podcasts, unless the people doing the podcast have ads

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    afaik, podcasts can choose to have ads (I don't mean sponsorships) enabled. most podcasts I listen to have sponsorships, but for example the lateral podcast from tom scott actually has 'real' ads in it, even with premium.

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

    Pretty much inevitable I've been amazed they went this long. $10 just does not seem sustainable.

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

    Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

    They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Then there are people like me who do use Spotify a lot, but I'm mostly listening to the same stuff most of the time. Unless I'm trying to find new things or listen to a podcast, it's most likely all cached on my device.

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    • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    They were the last to do this. Can’t even be mad about it.

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Is it just the single account or is the family account also increasing?

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    the reason i used spotify was their reccomendation system and now it is the worst of any other platform. Even if they make it free I won't use it ever again. I don't want to listen to Unholy after every fucking song.

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

    You mean it repeats a lot of stuff? Thats what I found :( A lot of the liked music lists it generated just seems to be stuff I already liked ages ago

    I'm trialing Apple Music, but, only thing is it doesn't let you download all of your liked songs on your phone it seems

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Wow I completely disagree. Are you actually liking and disliking songs? And AI DJ is fantastic. I just recently learned about it and have been loving it. I use Apple Music some, but it’s for curation, not recommendation.

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

    yes i have like 5000 liked songs now. Been on spotify for 8 years already. It was way more amazing before. I use to play a song then the next song will be something that other people listened but also liked the song I played.

    Fast forward now. No matter what I pkay the next song is always a song I have heard before ESPECIALLY unholy by sam smith. I use to love that song but I loathe it now. I am playing a japanese song. Next song is unholy. I mean what the hell. Then I searched why is this happening.

    The cause came out to be cache management. Of they have a song cached in your device spotify will play that. Guck the recommendations. So I thought lets remoce the cache. That does not work because their CDN has that songs cached now and I still get that god forsaken song instead of a true song.

    I use to pay spotify yearly basis thats how much I used to use it. Now I have 4 months remaining but don't use spotify on my android. Only on desktop.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    Same, i used to sub with Spotify, in the last 2 years i've been on Apple music, they even have better collection and playlists of non-english music. Spotify is full of rap music and so hard to discover anything else unless you know what you are searching for.

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

    What do you recommend for playing deeper tracks from artists I follow? I don't like to like songs, I either want to like entire artists or just listen. I'm also relying pretty heavily on daily and weekly mixes synced to my phone, for the car, since I don't have cell service around where I liv nowe. Like, at all, and spotty for hundreds of miles.

    I used Google Play Music back in the day, and they were great about this, but YT Music took a major step back. Even if it's better now, I'm trying to extricate my life from Google.

    Pandora has this concept of modes, where you can choose to listen to Deep Cuts, Crowd Faves, New Releases or Discovery for a given station. The problem is:

    • It still gets redundant within the given mode
    • Managing stations grows to be a pain in the ass
    • I don't want to listen to all new, more loosely related, or popular tracks; and it won't let me set mode preferences for the standard station
    • I really dislike Sirius XM as a company, and don't want to support them.

    I used Apple Music for maybe 18 months between Spotify stints, after YT Music. I was trying to switch over to the Apple ecosystem, but am moving back to AOSP Android and Linux. I do like that the depth played from a given artist is a good bit better than Spotify, but I dislike that I can't either follow artists instead of liking songs, and can't easily get a list of liked songs to unlike in the future.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    I've started using Youtube Premium more since I get music, podcasts, and ad-free Youtube for 5 people. Much better deal. :)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I just wish YouTube Music would get better integration with more services. I really enjoy being able to seamlessly play Spotify on my PS5 while I'm playing games, and listening along with friends on Discord is also way easier on Spotify. If YouTube Music could get similar integrations, I'd probably drop Spotify, since I'm already paying for YouTube Premium as it is.

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

    I subscribed to YouTube Premium a few days ago, after being a long-time Spotify subscriber. It really does seem like a viable alternative.... except for the lack of something like Spotify connect. I can't even control the playback on my computer or TV from my phone. It's like every YouTube Music device is on their own, knowing nothing about the others. With Spotify I could seamlessly continue the playback of the song I was listening to in my car on my phone and later on the smart speaker in my apartment.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I've tried out YouTube Premium a few weeks ago with the intention of replacing Spotify, but it just doesn't do the job. I have a use case where I have one computer playing music, but I want to control it with another computer. I've yet to find another service that does what I need other than Spotify.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yup, that's another feature I get extensive use out of, too. I'll sometimes queue up some music from my phone to play on my Nest speakers, and switch tracks from my watch. It's just not as seamless of a process on YTM as it is on Spotify, unfortunately. Which is a shame, because Google could really be a serious contender in the music streaming space if they just invested a bit into the product.

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

    Well. Even more of a reason for me to keep not listening to music anymore.

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