Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week
Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week
Spotify has resisted increasing its monthly subscription price for as long as possible. According to the Wall Street Journal, the...
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.
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.
Idk I said the same about Netflix years ago
Does the calculation showing that it's cheaper when accounting for inflation also account for wage stagnation? ~Strawberry
Pretty much inevitable I've been amazed they went this long. $10 just does not seem sustainable.
Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.
They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.
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.
They were the last to do this. Can’t even be mad about it.
Is it just the single account or is the family account also increasing?
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.
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
Pandora has amazing stations that randomize like music. I've found lots of new artists this way and love it.
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.
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.
There is not a single app for this. For recommendations I now sometimes use last.fm and for songs I use blackhole (even though i have 4 months of spotify premium remaining). Blackhole luckly has a song download option and I can use it with any of my media player and I can't believe I am saying this but it has a better song recommendation then spotify.
But if you want to spam 1 artist I would say just search on spotify. you will get a playlist like "this is (artist name) ". That has good songs and you can download that playlist too. But What i do is just search it on blackhole and go to town. Download what I like and jam all the way.
I've started using Youtube Premium more since I get music, podcasts, and ad-free Youtube for 5 people. Much better deal. :)
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.
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.
Same! And a decent API similar to Spotify, would be nice!
Where can I find podcasts in YT music?
It's mostly part of Youtube but you can find it here: https://music.youtube.com/podcasts
That does seem like a better deal at this point.
Well. Even more of a reason for me to keep not listening to music anymore.
I cannot imagine life without music. I've met people that have told me "I don't really listen to music at all," and I never really understood that frame of mind.
Here is a report about spotify cost: https://ja.musicfab.org/spotify-price-plan-introduce