Cancelled mine a while ago. My partner likes watching YouTubers on the TV, and I can't abide ads. So I pay for YouTube, get rid of the ads, and get free music streaming as a benefit. Win win win!
I recently switched to an iPod and have a Samba server that I can use to access my music library on the go if needed, via WireGuard. Honestly, I could not be more happier with it. I think there are very few advantages for technically inclined people to still pay for streaming services, and the fees are not one of them.
I haven’t cancelled Spotify etc but I axed HBO max after what seemed to be the third email about another price increase in a short period.
Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.
Long ago I canceled my spotify because they were giving millions to Joe Rogan, but not the artist actually making music. You could spend a year making a solid album and make a fraction of what some dude that just spews gibberish makes in one episode.
I have to be honest, I immediately decided to quit the service and subscribe to YouTube Premium as soon as I saw the news yesterday. I would've been fine if it was just the regular full-priced subscription offerings that were increasing in price, but to do it to the student plan as well? And for what, to cover the costs of Hulu? It's not like audiobooks are included with the student plan! Given that this latest price hike now puts Spotify's student plan within a dollar of YouTube Premium's student plan while being more expensive than almost every other music streamer's student plans, I decided to take the plunge and subscribe to YouTube Premium, because if Spotify's going to increase the price of their subscriptions and not offer a good reason to do it, then why even bother?
$22/month for a family plan of 5 people to have unlimited streaming is more than worth it to me. They would have to triple the price for me to even think about it being an issue. And this is coming from someone who was on what.cd for years.
I also prefer Spotify over apple music and youtube music from a ui/ux perspective as well.
I noticed the price creeping the last time and just said to me “when it touches the $15 mark it’s gone, it seems to be approaching there so I’ll look for a different platform or just go back to mp3s.
I’ve been wanting to get rid of Spotify for months as the service has been getting worse and worse and this might just be the straw that breaks the camels back.
Does anyone know of alternatives with
1) decent discovery for new music
2) preferably not self hosted
3) a functional Linux desktop app
4) allows downloading playlists for offline listening
getting all of these in one place and having them work well is why I’ve been stuck with Spotify for so long :/
I am building tinytunes as a lightweight, in-browser music player for YouTube and local music, in large part because YouTube has a better library of music than Spotify, but a bad UI for a music player: https://dj.t-tunes.com/
A dedicated music player and music recommendations is coming later ; this is a combined DJ controller + music player that lets you import local tracks and youtube playlists
I'm not Spotify's greatest advocate here but why do all the comments here suggest that if he price goes up then it just mean you get more for your money.
It's called inflation. The cost of doing business for them has risen and therefore they are passing that back to consumer.
Now that doesn't prevent them from not increasing wages of course and pocketing some of that extra revenue instead of course.
It just shouldn't be surprising that things get more expensive as time goes on.
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Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.
I also prefer Spotify over apple music and youtube music from a ui/ux perspective as well.
More in the on demand space, but here too I’m sure
Does anyone know of alternatives with 1) decent discovery for new music 2) preferably not self hosted 3) a functional Linux desktop app 4) allows downloading playlists for offline listening
getting all of these in one place and having them work well is why I’ve been stuck with Spotify for so long :/
A dedicated music player and music recommendations is coming later ; this is a combined DJ controller + music player that lets you import local tracks and youtube playlists
It's called inflation. The cost of doing business for them has risen and therefore they are passing that back to consumer.
Now that doesn't prevent them from not increasing wages of course and pocketing some of that extra revenue instead of course.
It just shouldn't be surprising that things get more expensive as time goes on.