15 hours for what period of time? The article mentions they’d refill in two days…
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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 months agoRegardless, 15 hours audio is low AF
lily33@lemm.ee 5 months ago
trevron@beehaw.org 5 months ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
Barely paying musicians is a choice. In fact even the whole audiobook setup is a choice. Give me the epub and TTS and I’d be happy as Larry.
ryper@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The audiobooks help them pay less for music:
fwygon@beehaw.org 5 months ago
They could certainly “clearly pass the cost” of this on to the user by not offering Audiobooks to users who didn’t pay for the “+ # of Audiobooks” tier of Spotify Premium; instead of this horrible enshittified crap where it cuts you off midsentence like a greedy telecomm provider would. Or perhaps their limitation should be on how many titles you can listen to concurrently in a certain time period. (So if you open X books; that’s it; you have to shelve one or wait it out)
It certainly means that Spotify did a bad job at negotiating their rights to these audiobooks as well. That matters too; because that makes the product worse; and that should never have been allowed to happen. If they couldn’t have offered it nicely, they could’ve just not offered it at all or added it to a higher service tier so that the cost is diverted better.