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Spotify: "Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices"

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Spotify: "Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices" - Yiffit.net

First price rise since 2011. In the US, the new prices are: Premium Individual - $10.99 Premium Duo - $14.99 Premium Family - $16.99 Premium Student - $5.99 The following countries will see price rises: Andorra, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Thailand, Türkiye/Turkey, United States, Kosovo.

lazyplayboy Jul 25, 2023

There’s not much benefit of Spotify premium over YouTube premium.

srwax Jul 25, 2023

Yeah, you get YouTube music plus ad free YouTube. It makes more sense for me, for sure.

Confound4082 Jul 25, 2023

If you have android, try revanced

seppoenarvi Jul 25, 2023

I prefer YouTube premium over Spotify for the same reason, but the feature that made me pay for YouTube is video downloads. I’m traveling a lot and I can spend a flight easily watching YouTube. I don’t listen to that much songs, mostly podcasts and SoundCloud, so I’ll probably pause my subscription when I’m not traveling, if they increase the prices.

ARealDinosaur Jul 25, 2023

Does it function like spotify? Does it play well with android auto? I've been using Tidal for years & I'm very happy with it but if the YouTube version offers a similar experience with no YouTube ads I'd try it out.

smolyeet Jul 25, 2023

On paper , sure. The YouTube premium interface is enough to make it not worth it. Id rather switch to Apple Music and I’m not a fan of that apps UI either. I feel like google play music was a lot better than what we have now. I pay for yt premium but don’t use it for music if that says anything.

7u5k3n Jul 25, 2023

Rip gpm. I’m still so bitter about it going away.

soyagi Jul 25, 2023

YouTube Premium is also going up: 9to5google.com/…/youtube-premium-price-increase/

Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...

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Billiam Jul 25, 2023

Google made $50 billion in profit last year. But sure, they need to increase the price of YouTube. 🙄

Stovetop Jul 25, 2023

I was happy with them too until they decided that the price rate I was grandfathered in for was no longer valid.

I had been a day 1 subscriber of Google Play Music All Access. Was not happy when it switched to YouTube Music, but I wouldn’t be paying extra and it had ad-free YouTube, so I tolerated it. But then they wanted to increase the monthly amount I was paying by 50%, despite supposedly being grandfathered into the lower rate, and there was nothing I could do about it.

I miss ad-free YouTube but I switched to Spotify out of spite. Not so pleased that my Duo plan is going up to $14.99, but that’s how much I was paying for YouTube’s family plan before and is still $8 cheaper than it is now.

Nighed Jul 25, 2023

I’m pretty sure that YouTube still loses money, serving video isn’t cheap!

SirStumps Jul 25, 2023

True, I was grandfathered in for a long time and they raised the rate from $16 to $22 so not I just use Revanced and get it for free.

woddy Jul 25, 2023

Netflix showed that people will lay down and take it; expect more.

bobs_monkey Jul 25, 2023

Netflix’s catalog also fluctuates wildly, while Spotify’s remains fairly static. This is their first price increase since their inception, and it’s only a dollar. We’ve never been able to listen to Spotify on more than one device at a time, this really isn’t a big deal all things considered. If it’s that big a deal for you, there are plenty of other options.

DMmeYourNudes Jul 25, 2023

Idk, I have quite a bit of music fall off my liked playlist because of licencing. They’re not mainstream popular tracks, and sometimes it’s because they update the albums, but it gets annoying when a song I like and have listened to is removed, and if I wanna have it, I need to put a copy of it on all my devices by hand. If they had a way to sync devices with my personal tracks, and support for audiobooks, I would think it’s virtually perfect. Too bad itunes doesn’t work with Android or aupoort a Spotify plugin.

WarmSoda Jul 25, 2023

That’s on the record labels and bands.

DMmeYourNudes Jul 25, 2023

as i said in my comment, if they had a way for me to sync my personal library to all of my devices without having to set it up manually on every single one, i would not be having these issues. that’s on spotify, not the copyright holders.

Jon Von Basslake Jul 25, 2023

I guess Spotify could (and arguably should) add a feature to scan your device for the file, instead of you having to go add it manually. Is that what you meant? Because you comment comes across as you wanting the song to somehow be available on all of your devices despite you having it on only one…

DMmeYourNudes Jul 25, 2023

i have absolutely no idea how you could come to the conclusion that someone has only 1 device when they say they want to be able to copy their songs to multiple devices through spotify. the entire reason i pay for spotify is because it has a massive music library that i can access on any device i log in from.

Starayo Jul 25, 2023

I was planning to change my sub recently with a VPN but then I realised I already have YouTube premium and YouTube music already has everything I listen to, so I just cancelled.

Nice of them to fully cement my decision.

soyagi Jul 25, 2023

YouTube Premium is also going up: 9to5google.com/…/youtube-premium-price-increase/

Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...

9to5Google

Starayo Jul 25, 2023

Yeah, but I use YouTube a hell of a lot more, and also I don’t pay in USD.

LightProtector Jul 25, 2023

Do you use a different currency to get it cheaper?

Confound4082 Jul 25, 2023

Have you heard of revanced? (Android only)

b0o Jul 25, 2023

Back to Pirating 🏴‍☠️

SpezCanLigmaBalls Jul 25, 2023

I’m not against pirating, in fact I do it for movies and tv but this is quite an excessive reaction for like a 10% increase in what? 12 years

sab Jul 25, 2023

Especially with how inflation has been recently. This is more than justified.

I might cancel my subscription anyway though, I'm listening more and more to internet radio to the point where I'm not really sure I need it any more.

krashmo Jul 25, 2023

For real. I saw the email that said price increases and thought, great Spotify is at it too. Then I saw it was only a $1 increase and got over it. For me piracy is more about convenience than anything else. For an extra dollar Spotify is still more convenient than downloading, organizing, and storing my own music. If that ever changes I’ll happily go back to it as I’ve already done for most movies and TV shows, but I don’t think this warrants that sort of reaction.

SpezCanLigmaBalls Jul 25, 2023

Yup I feel the same way about music streaming. If I was torrenting music I wouldn’t know 70% of the songs I have in playlists currently. Paying for Apple Music is a no second thought question

AccidentalLemming Jul 25, 2023

Keep in mind that Spotify has operated at a loss every year since it started. I’m surprised they’re even still around.

iorale Jul 25, 2023

Never left it, all this time I’ve found much more convenient to have my local files than rely on a mediocre service.

EnderWi99in Jul 25, 2023

For a very small price increase that is almost entirely attributed to inflation? You're out of your mind. Spotify is probably the most fairly priced streaming platform across any medium.

Chozo Jul 25, 2023

I'm actually okay with this. It's only $1 extra, and somehow Spotify has managed to not get worse over time unlike a lot of other big media platforms these days, and continues to have some of the best inter-app/device compatibility out of any service I've ever used.

Dave Jul 25, 2023

Yeah, me too. From a consumer perspective, music streaming (not just Spotify) has managed to remain a worthwhile offering, the kind we all said we’d be happy to pay for if it just existed back in the piracy age…

Contrast with video streaming, where you now need to have five different subscriptions just to have a hope of watching half the things you want, where the content changes all the time and geo-limitations abound.

Take my extra quid, Spotify!

kat Jul 25, 2023

I used to YouTube-mp3 a lot of music and then go through the very annoying process of renaming all of the files and moving them to itunes. After about the 6th time my favorite (or newly made favorite) site got removed by DMCA, I gave up and moved to Spotify. They had a 3 month free trial and I marked my calendar to cancel when it was over. When that day came I was like, lol, never mind. It was so much less hassle and less riddled with viruses and ads.

Cynber Jul 25, 2023

I recently tried to get some self hosted music going, using old CDs I had for example. It’s such a hassle moving things over, even when the automated software tags the files correctly (which only happened half the time)

TV and movies are easy enough to manage your own files for, because it’s a lot more organized and categorizable. With music it’s a mess, and not something worth doing for me.

Also I listen to so much music that it’s nice being able to let it fetch similar music for hours and hours.

EnderWi99in Jul 25, 2023

Completely fair price increase based on the timeframe and inflation.

Gutless2615 Jul 25, 2023

These streaming services seem to forget that the only reason people use them is because they are incrementally easier than piracy, which is now safe, effective and free. Expect more articles soon about how torrenting is on the rise, piracy is killing the industry, etc. but also head over to /c/selfhosted and /c/piracy.

nivenkos Jul 25, 2023

A VPN / seedbox and a homeserver will cost you far more than the $1 per month difference.

Shurimal Jul 25, 2023

I have a NAS working 24/7 either way to store large data (photos, Skyrim mods etc) and backups. Might as well use it for Jellyfin, Navidrome and qBittorrent, too, instead of idling 90% of time🙃

gonesnake Jul 25, 2023

I know I’m squarely in the minority here but between what Spotify pays the artists on their platform and the incredible inconsistency of availability, features and sound quality I’ll never use it. We have it where I work and it’s awful. Customize that playlist all you want it’s still going to squeeze something in there that was never added, replace a song with some other invariably shittier version and you’ll be riding the volume control like you’re watching a Marvel movie. Remastered song? Blowing out the speakers. Original version? Quieter than a mouse fart. Some weird improperly labelled remix you never asked for? Perfectly clear and we’ll play it three times within an hour despite the playlist being four hours long.

Deceptichum Jul 25, 2023

I've been using Spotify for 11 years now and I cannot say that's been my experience at all.

The only time I get bad live versions or covers is when I ask Google Home or Siri to play a song.

aeternum Jul 25, 2023

Honestly, I've been on spotift since 2015, and I have not experienced that either. It's been rock solid for me

nivenkos Jul 25, 2023

I don’t understand the argument about the artists’ payments - they agree to be on the platform.

And a stream will always be less value than a full CD sale - it’s also much, much less expensive for the customer.

FantasticFox Jul 25, 2023

It’s not like the artists got most of the revenue from CD sales either. Artists being scammed by record labels was so common it was almost a meme.

And yeah they agree to revenue-share because it’s much better than the alternative of piracy and no money.

I think many of the people complaining don’t remember what is used to be like when you would pay £10 per album.

magic_lobster_party Jul 25, 2023

Did you get a Spotify subscription from Wish or something?

Wardacus16 Jul 25, 2023

Sounds like smart shuffle might be enabled. I’ve never had an issue with Spotify adding songs it thinks I might like when I use the normal shuffle mode.

Blizzard Jul 25, 2023

Options:

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zemmy.cc/post/25500

lemmy.world/post/2087295

Spotifymate- anybody know how to download a whole playlist without having to download each song individually? - Divisions by zero

I’ve been using either Spotifymate or doubledouble to automatically plug in spotify playlists and have all the tunes downloaded. Doubledouble tends to have issues with regionlocking and will freeze a good bit of the way through processing certain playlists, so I’ve found it less than reliable. Spotifymate is way more reliable, but when you plug in the link to the playlist, you have to download each song individually. This is not a problem with small playlists, but when you come across larger playlists it makes it a very tedious task. I may just be stupid, but I don’t seem to see a way to download the whole playlist with one click. Anybody know if its possible or should I look for other solutions? I should also add that I would be more than happy to use some sort of software that automatically makes spotify playlists into youtube playlists so that I can download them from youtube directly with jdownloader if that is an option, I just didn’t see that anywhere. Thanks in advance!

TheKarion Jul 25, 2023

Of the different ones which do you recommend?

d3Xt3r Jul 25, 2023

None of them. I’d recommend Spottube which combines the audio from YouTube and metadata from Spotify.

Spotube | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Lightweight & resource friendly music client

Jon Von Basslake Jul 25, 2023

If a raise of one dollar is that big of a deal, you probably couldn’t afford spotify to begin with.

aeternum Jul 25, 2023

you know, I got the email and I also thought "fuck. now spotify is at it too". But it's a dollar people. Get some perspective. That's not even a fifth of a coffee. once. per month.

I use NixOS btw Jul 25, 2023

They didn’t raise it in my country (Romania), according to the list.

DarkWasp Jul 25, 2023

This is said for many price increases across multiple products, the issue is when it’s all happening simultaneously it’s adding up far more in tandem. It’s this, most grocery items, other bills etc when wages aren’t going up that makes it untenable in aggregate. It’s not just Spotify in a vacuum.

TheKarion Jul 25, 2023

ROMANIA NUMBER ONE

IverCoder Jul 25, 2023

Philippines is not included too even though most other ASEAN countries are on the list.

SuperSpecialNickname Jul 25, 2023

A while ago I thought they would increase the price of subscription and introduce HiFi quality, but they do this instead. While I can understand this move and it isn’t that big of a difference, it still feels like a slap in the face because there isn’t any difference in service

NISZOgen Jul 25, 2023

yay in poland it is still 20pln (currently 4,98usd)

dinckel Jul 25, 2023

My family plan increased by 3$ in the last 3 years alone, but my experience didn’t improve by 3$. If anything, I don’t think they’ve actually added anything of value since I started using Spotify regularly years ago

marmo7ade Jul 25, 2023

If you scroll half way down this page you will see a list of the literal changes since 2012. There’s a lot.

community.spotify.com/t5/…/5331115

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