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Spotify: "Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices"

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.

alnilam ,

USD 16,99 should be around 15.40 euro. The announcement mail told me it was going to be 18 euro, or about 20 dollar. What could cause this?

sockinacock ,

Licensing shit-fuckery and/or decision makers think you have more disposable income than an equivalent american.

itsmikeyd ,

I downgraded from Family to Duo as I didn’t know Duo existed until they put the family plan price up. Jokes on you, Spotify!

dinckelman , (edited )

My family plan increased by 3$ in the last 3 years alone, but my experience didn’t improve by 3$

marmo7ade ,

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

community.spotify.com/t5/…/5331115

niszogen ,
@niszogen@lemmy.world avatar

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

SuperSpecialNickname ,

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

Ultra980 ,

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

DarkWasp ,
@DarkWasp@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

ROMANIA NUMBER ONE

IverCoder ,
@IverCoder@lemmy.world avatar

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

aeternum ,

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.

Blizzard ,

Options:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/908895

zemmy.cc/post/25500

lemmy.world/post/2087295

TheKarion ,

Of the different ones which do you recommend?

d3Xt3r ,

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

JonVonBasslake ,
@JonVonBasslake@lemmy.world avatar

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

gonesnake ,

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 ,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

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 ,

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

nivenkos ,

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 ,
@FantasticFox@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

Did you get a Spotify subscription from Wish or something?

Wardacus16 ,

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.

Gutless2615 ,

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 ,

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

Shurimal ,

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🙃

EnderWi99in ,

Completely fair price increase based on the timeframe and inflation.

Chozo ,

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.

davetansley ,
@davetansley@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

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 ,
@cynber@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

b0o ,

Back to Pirating 🏴‍☠️

SpezCanLigmaBalls ,
@SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,
@SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world avatar

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

EnderWi99in ,

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.

Starayo ,
@Starayo@lemmy.world avatar

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 OP ,

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

Starayo ,
@Starayo@lemmy.world avatar

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

LightProtector ,

Do you use a different currency to get it cheaper?

Confound4082 ,

Have you heard of revanced? (Android only)

woddy ,

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

bobs_monkey ,

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 ,

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 ,

That’s on the record labels and bands.

dmmeyournudes ,

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.

JonVonBasslake ,
@JonVonBasslake@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,

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.

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