Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

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What. It's meant to stream music. Tf do you mean?

So now that Tidal has moved its Hi-Fi tier price down to match Apple's wtf is Spotify doing? Charging more than the competition, paying artists less, and not even offering lossless?

Remember: Stealing from big, evil corporations is morally correct.

The average person: Spotify sucks and is making me hate them even more

Shareholders seeing layoffs followed by AI replacements for those workers and then repeated price hikes: 🤑

Spotify Premium in practice has new benefits!

More specifically: Lyrics that they took away from regular users some time ago.

I suppose I'm a "content creator". I write music.

I WISH all my recording gear was free. Fucking hell. The amount of money I've wasted in the last 30 years... sheesh.

Apple Music pays multiple times more to artists than Spotify.

Tidal pays multiple times more than Apple.

You can influence things with your wallet.

A "subscriber consent to renew on price increase" law would go a long way

The only reason I keep Spotify anymore is that I've got a family plan with something like six accounts. I gave those to random acquaintances back in the Facebook days - people who are really into music.

If I cancel Spotify, there are five people out there who are suddenly and without warning going to find themselves without music.

I really don't even remember who they are, but I feel like continuing the subscription is my community service

So what is their excuses for older musicians that paid for expensive studio time before the day of home studios? Cause they still pay them like shit too

I hope people just switch to something else or start self-hosting their own music.

I'm so grateful, I have thousands of songs and just hit shuffle and made my own playlists. I always thought internet radio was overpriced 😅

For anyone out there, I recommend giving Tidal a shot and for podcasts, I recommend a FOSS app called AntennaPod. This is the combo I use myself, I've been using Tidal for a bit over two years now and just recently switched to AntennaPod.

I would suggest anyone bothered by this to look into xManager.

Round #451 of telling people to stop using Spotify and consider one of the many, better alternatives.

Meanwhile every update makes the app worse

I upgraded to a decent set of headphones with a dedicated DAC, then realised just how terrible Spotify’s sound quality is, even on maximum. I hung on a while for the empty promise of lossless audio then ditched them.

I’m now increasingly glad that I’m giving money to their competitors.

Here's a few things that are cheaper!

• Soulseek/Nicotine+
• Usenet Groups
• Libraries (only if your local one has CDs, and often is popular music and no indie stuff) And if you want some album art: MusicBrainz Picard

If you want it on your phone, SD cards are cheaper than ever for big space. Unless you're on iPhone.

I switched to TIDAL, for this, for the disgustingly low amount of revenue passed along to artists by Spotify (the entire value of their business), and for the fact that they continue to partner with Rogan after all the disinformation he peddles.

Not a huge proponent of streaming services in general, but some are objectively better than others. Spotify is atrocious. Tidal is a lot better.

PSA:

Innertune

Vi Music

Spotiflier

Edit: Maybe check out Ri Music, Vi Music's Successor

Just for funzies, my Spotify family plan in Canada is $17.84 CAD, which works out to $13.05 USD at current exchange rate.

Usually Canadians are screwed harder on, well pretty much everything, so I'm surprised that Americans are paying more for this. Guess it's "what the market will bear" or similar nonsense. Please discuss.

Another clueless CEO who doesn't know what makes his company's very existence possible.

I just download to actually have the songs. No DRM, No Ads, No song getting removed from streaming service... I have 500+ songs downloaded in opus format and it only takes 2.5Gb with many of them being longer than 5 minutes. I don't know why people keep using these services while they keep saying they hate it because there are so many ads or why they keep paying for DRM (aka. not owning anything)...

told them to go fuck themselves and canceled my subscription yesterday. they really didn't stop to consider just how many options people have for music

Switched to Tidal when Spotify announced their reduction in artist pay, and I can highly recommend it. The interface is much better, although lacking podcasts (but luckily there are many great FOSS podcasts apps out there).

I never did get a music subscription of any kind. Guess I am glad about that now. I just host my own server. Spotify never had a quarter of what I want to listen to anyways so I guess there is that.

Listening to Legion of Mary 12-10-1974 right now.

Streaming services don't support artists in any meaningful way.

Instead, buy music for download when it's available (Bandcamp and the like).

If not possible, just pirate it and buy merchandise or go to a concert. You will bring as much revenue to the artists this way, than listening to them on Spotify for 200 years non stop, and it will be cheaper for you in the end.

Just another CEO denigrating the work of those who make him rich.

After watching how similar business practices torched Twitter, I think this dude is underestimating the general public's commitment to just sail the high seas.

I cancelled spotify a few months ago, when getting some free Apple music with my Airpods. Not the best, but still happy that I don’t have to use Spotify anymore, will probably shop around after my free period with Apple is done

I've spent a good part of my life downloading my music and using mp3 playing apps. On time I downloaded Spotify to add songs to a shared playlist with friends. I figured I might try the app since I have it installed.

This is the worst music playing app in the world. (I was on free tier) How could anyone see this and think "oh yeah I will pay a subscription to this service". Seriously

I left when I saw how much of our money they gave to Joe Rogan to punch down on trans people. Already paying for YouTube pro for years and finally took advantage of their music app. It's been great. My car and every Google screen in the house have native support. The only disadvantage is everything from tinder to open source crap I run at home only integrate with Spotify.

Welp, gonna try Tidal tonight.

Another day, another moment of being thankful for my dedicated .mp3 player.

So is there an alternative that’s comparable? I am done with their price increases.

I assume Apple Music?

Smh I want to get off Spotify for tidal but I don't feel up to teaching my parents how to use a completely different music app

Anyone have an alternative with the same content, offline play, and integration into Android Auto? I would love to switch if something meets my needs.

Isn't this also on the Publishers? They get paid first before the artist.

Glad I moved away from Spotify to Apple Music years ago (for different reasons tho)

Production cost for a full length album STARTS at around $10-15k.

That's a lot more than "zero" in my book.

Who?