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Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

submitted 5 months ago by cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool. I trust that extra money will be going to the artists who upload their music!

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Probably going to Joe Rogan's "over $200" million deal with Spotify instead.

[–] DiscoShrew@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Any love for Qobuz?

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

It is worth the extra features, like not being able to remove an unwanted podcast from your play list. Why Spotify, why!?

[–] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Then the rest follow. If Apple music hike their price again, time to dust off my eye patch. Ive already cancelled all my streaming and went with plex, radarr, sonarr.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Life hack: get Plexamp and Lidarr with Lidarr extended scripts. Then sign up for a free month of tidal with a throwaway account. Add said account to Lidarr extended. Add all the artists you want to Lidarr and let Lidarr Extended download all the stuff from Tidal for you. Once it has run out, register with another throwaway adress.

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[–] PointyDorito@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Already switched to Deezer and liking it way more

[–] x0chi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In the early 90s I used to pay around 10 to 15 euros (20 to 30 with current inflation) for each CD release.

And still we still complain nowadays.

We got a problem with the streaming industry but it's not the price we pay. We must be reasonable, say that the price is 15 bucks, is that really unreasonable for getting at your fingertips and everywhere most of the music even produced? I don't.

I think the major problem with Spotify isn't Spotify problem, but an industry problem. If I remember correctly, Spotify gets around 30%, then there's the distributor, and it gets around 40%. Whatever's left of the cake is divided between the label and the artist depending on the contract. The industry created something that didn't need to exist, another intermediate, the distributor. First apple used them cause of the work they do arranging all the needed metadata and keeping it tidy. The industry created them, now it can't get rid of them, and they "eat" the most part of the money.

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago

And I'm assuming they're not adding any benefits for the cost like more audio book hours on the family plan...

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people pay for a music subscription when you can just use YouTube Music (ReVanced or FOSS YTMusic clients) for the freezies.

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do those things give you DJ and radio options? I'm too lazy to go find the songs I want. I'd rather just let the app put on tunes and learn what I like based on feedback and behavior.

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