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[–] psmgx 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mark my words, a Disney style price raise is in the cards, probably before summer 2024

[–] anewbeginning 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

At this point Spotify offers less than competitors with Spotify hi-fi being a bunch of imaginary bullshit. I only subscribe to spotify when they offer me 3 months for the price of one.

Raising prices would be absurd.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What competitors do you recommend?
I use soundcloud and have used Bandcamp but Bandcamp got sold to Epic.
I have also heard of Faircamp which looks promising.

[–] KpntAutismus 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

one of my friends uses deezer, there is actual lossless audio there.

tidal is also supposed to be good, but i heard horrible things about the app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nice I will give Deezer a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I switched to a TIDAL subscription a couple of months ago. The whole experience, apart from sound quality, is a downgrade from Spotify Premium. I still recommend it to people because supposedly they pay a better cut per stream to artists. The sound quality upgrade is quite noticable if you have good sound gear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Epic already sold off Bandcamp to another company (songtradr) and it's probably not an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apple Music is also very good. Lossless at no extra cost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music. I have an eclectic collection of music and though, to be fair, I haven't listened to a lot of it in a while, I would still like the option. Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me. So right now I use YouTube Music because it's so easy. I may switch to Plex now that I have a decent internet connection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music.

It’s easy enough, just add your music to the Music app on macOS.

Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me.

The Windows version of iTunes is terrible anyway. The Music app on macOS is much better. Can’t you hackintosh it?

[–] Sheeple 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They can't exactly afford to go higher than the round 10 we have a month. It will cost them a lot of customers just from the sheer inconvenience caused by the change in gift cards.

This effect would happen even at just 1 cent above the convenient pricing. That means if they increase the price, they have to make up for the immediate loss of "convenience users" which means higher price again which leads to an exponential spiral.

We are more likely to see ads being forced into Spotify premium.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Given the recent successes of other streaming platforms integrating ads into previously ad free levels, I think you're right.

[–] pycorax 1 points 11 months ago

A higher price I can stand but ads in a paid service? If they do that, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't just use ublock origin with Spotify on the web or a modded APK instead.