According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.
Here is a report about spotify cost: https://ja.musicfab.org/spotify-price-plan-introduce
Oh good I get to pay a dollar more every month to have unremovable ads for podcasts shoved in my face
The idea that podcasts still have ads on the premium version of Spotify is absurd to me. They claim it’s because the audio gets submitted with the ads as part of the file but Spotify could very easily ask for a version without ads to play as part of the contract.
It drives me up the wall to hear Geico ads and other shit when I’m paying them actual cash money not to listen to ads.
Ads are so ubiquitous that I feel many of us don’t even recognize we’re being advertised to anymore
Or you use a good adblocker and then get extremely irritated when you once in a while have to listen to an ad ;)
the reason i used spotify was their reccomendation system and now it is the worst of any other platform. Even if they make it free I won’t use it ever again. I don’t want to listen to Unholy after every fucking song.
Wow I completely disagree. Are you actually liking and disliking songs? And AI DJ is fantastic. I just recently learned about it and have been loving it. I use Apple Music some, but it’s for curation, not recommendation.
yes i have like 5000 liked songs now. Been on spotify for 8 years already. It was way more amazing before. I use to play a song then the next song will be something that other people listened but also liked the song I played.
Fast forward now. No matter what I pkay the next song is always a song I have heard before ESPECIALLY unholy by sam smith. I use to love that song but I loathe it now. I am playing a japanese song. Next song is unholy. I mean what the hell. Then I searched why is this happening.
The cause came out to be cache management. Of they have a song cached in your device spotify will play that. Guck the recommendations. So I thought lets remoce the cache. That does not work because their CDN has that songs cached now and I still get that god forsaken song instead of a true song.
I use to pay spotify yearly basis thats how much I used to use it. Now I have 4 months remaining but don’t use spotify on my android. Only on desktop.
hm. very strange. I’ve never seen the same. Wonder if it’s an iOS vs Android thing? I can completely understand not using it if that happened though. That sounds terrible.
I have both ios and android, also tried this on desktop and web player
Damn. I’m sorry. Well good luck with trying out other services. I hope you like one of them as much as you liked Spotify.
I’m all for bashing corporations, but y’all, this is a $1 increase for the first time in years. Not only is that reasonable, If anything, the rate of inflation is such that this is still effectively cheaper than it has been just a couple years ago.
Does the calculation showing that it’s cheaper when accounting for inflation also account for wage stagnation? ~Strawberry
