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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

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

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

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

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.

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 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)...

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.

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.

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.

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