Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
“a single user says…”
The daily dot is a fucking joke.
Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature
Submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.dailydot.com/news/spotify-premium-audiobook-fail/
Comments
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 months ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
Regardless, 15 hours audio is low AF
lily33@lemm.ee 5 months ago
15 hours for what period of time? The article mentions they’d refill in two days…
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
slams
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Destroys even!
stallmer@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Pro tip: get audiobooks from your library…along with paper books, ebooks, games, movies, etc.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The real story’s in the comments. This helped my single-mother-friend stay sane in the early/poorest years. Everyone needs to know how their library has changed since they last borrowed a book in 1982. Thanks for posting this – I forgot too!
0xtero@beehaw.org 5 months ago
So, is this the type of SLAM you’d typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?
XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I think it’s more like a door slam without a door.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
I’m voting poetry
darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas
Spotify is worse than piracy. It’s a robber baron.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I’m about 2/3 of the way through backing up my ‘Liked’ songs to MP3 files, at which point I’m ending my sub.
It’s a bummer because I actually really like Spotify’s algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.
Luvon@beehaw.org 5 months ago
“the 15 hours customers get free with premium equates to two audiobooks” Is the average audiobook really that short!
For eragon it would takes months to finish.
The hobbit is 10 hours.
Think most of the books I’ve listened to have been over that length, but I don’t use Spotify. Self hosting for the win. No time limits in prologue
key@lemmy.keychat.org 5 months ago
They probably have a bunch of 1 hour ‘books’ that mess with the average as shorter is cheaper to help pad out their numbers.
Looking at my personal library, the median length audiobook is The Last Wish at a tad over 10 hours. So it’d be equal to 1.5 books going by that, not the worst marketing exaggeration I’ve ever seen.
Person264@lemmings.world 5 months ago
You can opt out of audiobooks and save the extra cost they added the other month. moneysavingexpert.com/…/spotify-saving-basic-plan…
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Not in the US unfortunately, which is bullshit
along_the_road@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Dang :/ I was looking for the option
Swarfega@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Thanks! I didn’t know about this. I never use audiobooks. Just changed my family plan. £2 is £2!
Nighed@sffa.community 5 months ago
oooh, ty
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I hate the word “slams”
trevron@beehaw.org 5 months ago
[deleted]onoki@reddthat.com 5 months ago
If you read the article, the main point was that Spotify doesn’t inform about the limits clearly. Not the pricing.
Even now Spotify site says: “Spotify Premium: Listen without limits”. Clearly there is a limit, but the limits are only mentioned after the first subscription button if you scroll far enough.
along_the_road@beehaw.org 5 months ago
If I could afford a lawyer I would use for lying
S13Ni@lemmy.studio 5 months ago
Audio books are no longer expensive to produce. I bet my ass most except for the biggest titles will be AI generated in very short time. Whether people like it or not.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Headline contains -
Opinion of random member of the public
The word “slams”
I’m not reading it because I’ve probably wiped better journalism off my arse this morning
darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 5 months ago
User slams poop off his butthole, sparks controversy!
dumbass@leminal.space 5 months ago
What a crock of shit!
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Reaction At Fedi Punter Lingo Rant Slam.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’m fuckin raging. HERE’S WHY
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 months ago
There’s no need of “slam” – or “eye,” “mull,” “Solons,” usw – in an era where you’re not writing a 1-42-4.
(1 column, 42pt, four lines)