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Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan is going up by a whopping $3, increasing from $17 to $20 monthly. The only subscribers getting a break are students, who will continue to pay $6 monthly.

Spotify announced the price hikes less than a year after its previous one last July. Before that, Spotify hadn't raised its fees since launching a decade and a half ago. I guess it was too optimistic to hope the next increase would also take that long, especially with Spotify's continued focus (and money dump) on audiobooks.

Premium subscribers should receive an email from Spotify in the next month detailing the price hike and providing a link to cancel their plan if they would prefer to do so. Users currently on a trial period for Spotify will get one month at $11 after it ends before being moved up to a $12 monthly fee.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I was a Google Play Music person and loved it, and then they changed to YouTube. I got mad and tried Apple Music, but as a classical music lover it's vastly less than ideal for several reasons, so I went to Spotify and realized they liked to shuffle Britney Spears into me listening to lieder, so I went back to YouTube because at least they didn't do that. But it's just so basic compared to the absolute perfection that was GPM, and difficult to navigate. I don't know where to go next. I've been buying records on Bandcamp but I also like the streaming service to discover music with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just to let you know, Tidal is not that great either.

Frequently having issues with downloaded albums, where I go into offline mode, pull up an album, and it says "can't connect" despite being in offline mode and the album taking up storage space on my phone.

Also, the discovery and new releases sections aren't very well made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound great. Maybe I'll just use Bandcamp only. It's just some classical albums are only on certain platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

High chance they're all on Slsk as lossless files. That and foobar2000 and you'll be back in control of your music listening habits. Then buy physical from the artists if you want to support them and they offer a way to obtain it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Please speak to me like I'm dumb and explain all of this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could check out deezer. It's European and they have a classical music section. Not sure how good it is. It's like $110 for a yearly subscription and they offer hi-fi streaming. Just another option for you to check out. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds good actually. I wonder if I can look at their content and see if they have what I want before subscribing? Any idea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The app won't let you without signing in, I don't think, but i think the website does. Try this link or you can go to deezer.com and if you go to the hamburger menu at the bottom it has an "explore channels" option.

Edit: It's odd they don't let people browse I'm a more friendly way. And just so you know, once you sign up, you can search, make playlists, download for offline etc, the mostly same as spotify. When u first sign up, it also give you the option to migrate all your spotify plsylists over. Out of my thousands of songs saved, it did have 2 or 3 that didn't transfer over due to just not having it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think I'll try it. Can't hurt. YouTube is such a hot mess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was also a Google music enjoyer and also find the other streaming options pretty crappy. I've actually moved over to more curated options like internet radio for when I'm not in the mood for anything specific. Shout-out to NTS, I love you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is NTS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

nts.live internet radio from London

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You should get back to apple music, they launched an app dedicated to classical music, and it's by far the best for this type of music. Also it's lossless 24 bits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately due to licensing there's a lot of stuff I want they don't have, and some of it I can't purchase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you like to upload your own music (like Google music), iBroadcast is the tippy tops. You can still use bandcamp (with or without yt-dlp) for discovery, and then upload what you like to iBroadcast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nice suggestion thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you like classical music, give qobuz a try... High quality audio, large selection of classical music.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for this, never heard of them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe try Napster: https://www.napster.com/ Sounds a bit like a joke, but it's not. It used to be Rhapsody, but was re-branded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm ok with that!