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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...

https://www.gbnews.com/tech/spotify-price-rise

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[–] zero@fek.xyz 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dropped it for Tidal years ago, never looked back.

I've started collecting CDs and building my own Jellyfin library so I don't depend on streaming services.

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 7 points 4 days ago

not as far as I know!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

They have prices? People are paying? 🤔🏴‍☠️🦜

[–] bnak@ani.social 4 points 3 days ago

Music costs??

[–] rmic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

What pisses me off is that I can't have a family plaln associated with my main Google Workspace account. Because it's a Workspace account. So if I want to have a family plan for YouTube Music I need to have it associated with a gmail account not my workspace account. That's such bullshit, if you ask me!

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's cheaper if you have 5 friends and take the family plan. I'm paying ~€2 a month for the last couple of years.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

of course there are ways round it, but that's not my point. Getting expensive

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I'm paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer... That's how they get you 😭. Now I'd have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.

I do not recommend getting a family plan.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Cool I can't pay any less than the zero I currently am subscribed at to not use their service

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Ditched Spotify and bought myself a galleon and a tricorner hat instead. Haven't looked back.

Lidarr + Navidrome + Feishin + Metube

Mullvad for acquiring, TailScale and Symfonium for listening while away from home

This sounds like a lot of setup but probably took a few hours in total to set up the various docker images and get them working together.

I spend my saved money on vinyls, official merch, and SoundCloud or BandCamp purchases for my local library.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A few hours, when you know what you're doing. A few month when you have to figure it out, and maybe even then, it won't work, or you'll have lost a lot of money trying.

This should be a lot easier to do, than it is

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[–] dax@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I cancelled it when they started to crack down on family plans with separate households. It just wasn't worth the money to me anymore. I wonder how much more price hikes the remaining customers are going to tolerate. At some point it becomes cheaper to just outright buy music..

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Probably is cheaper for a lot of people who just listen to the same stuff week after week

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

~~Well, it's owned by friggin' Epic, now... so they're not that far off with their Intel.~~

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