Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal
Ethereal87@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I feel like the main thing these subscription services need to do is keep it chill. The fastest way to get me to question whether a service is worth it or not is if the monthly cost keeps being thrown in my face. Grandfather in old prices for a lot longer or something to keep people hooked longer. That’s probably why I’ll never be a C-level exec.
Spotify’s been fine but it’s just obnoxious at this point and THEY are pushing me to look elsewhere at this point.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Maybe it’s just my age – I presume you were born in 1987 – but subscriptions are anathema to me. I rarely buy $10 in music in a given month, so there’s no value there to me. Add in the AI tracks, and, well … what would I be paying for?
Ethereal87@beehaw.org 2 days ago
My millenial is showing with my username :D
We’re at a spot where we’ve more or less switched off subscriptions with a few exceptions (some of which enable us to not have OTHER subscriptions in the first place). Spotify is in a weird place where our kids have a playlist of music they like and they’re more or less the primary user of our Spotify playlist now. I’ve got all of my music self-hosted and my intention with this latest news is to try and bring the kids’ music over too.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days ago
When I had stepkids, I very quickly turned to piracy for their shows to avoid the endless “I need this because I saw it in an ad” routine. They were allowed to watch TV all night, and each morning was “what demand are they going to have now?”
warm@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Individual plans are a rip-off yeah, Spotify is one of the only services I subscribe to and that's because I have a family plan, so it's not so easy for me to just cancel it, when others are relying on it. It works out at €3.40/month ($3.95) per member. The value there is really good.
Spotify lets you just listen to anything, I can put a playlist on and it will keep going forever and I have discovered many tracks I would have never listened to, or even known they existed. Buying music is great, but only when you know exactly what you want, I'm not a big music person, I like listening to it, but I don't really have a dialled in taste. Spotify is great for that.
There will obviously be a tipping point though when they inevitably raise the price too far and I will abandon ship.