Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia
The time has come when you'll need deeper pockets to keep using Spotify. The Sweden-based music streaming giant has announced yet another price hike for its Premium subscribers living in the US, Estonia, and Latvia.
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Navidrome is free
Internet radio is also free. I think too many people forget that one.
Physical radio systems are always free without any strings attached and continue operating on blackouts.
Uhhh well there are very large strings in the form of rampant advertising and proximity...
It depends on the frequency you're using.
Which frequencies don't have advertising?
In the US, non commercial educational stations are not allowed to have paid advertising.
Educational stations don't seem like a great place to find music.
They've released 'Platinum Premium' in a few countries now.
If you're a paying Premium user, you now get adds to upgrade to 'Platinum Premium' which is just features you used to have that have moved to a more expensive plan and AI
qobuz is good so far. the ui could use work and I'm still getting used to howto switch output sources but the sound is great and it's even got Phoebe Bridgers now so I'm all set. bye bye spotify
recently went through the cancellation steps as well. it certainly isn't a surprise, but notably that is one of the more persistently-desparate cancellations I've personally experienced. made me that much happier to be cancelling and fueled my mood of "yeah, take THAT"
Glad I ditched them a few months ago :P
Never used Spotify, so nothing changed. They barely have anything I listen to anyways, so I guess that's why. There is so much music out there....
I'm curious what are you listening to that they don't have? They have most commercial music with the exception of movie and game OSTs.
Classical music, hobbiest remixes or independent artists would be another category they don't have as you need a contract with distributor to submit to Spotify.
Live music mostly, both commercially released and fan traded. Smaller bands, out if print records, a ton of open and free music that they don't bother with, music in dispute over royalties and so on.
Almost every time I have looked they simply don't have a lot of music I am looking for.
And all the mainstream stuff they do carry is literally everywhere else for free anyways.
Spotiwho?
And a pay hike to the non-AI non-Joe Rogan artists too... right?
If the rumor is that prices are going up, or layoffs are coming, it's ALWAYS true.
Alternatives exist, for people who want to change. I for, stopped using spotify a year + ago, and a replacement was spotube, not the best, but it does the job. Now days I listen to my cd's, soundcloud, spotube, youtoube(newpipe) and bandcamp. You may find also useful tidal, deezer, qobuz and torrents.