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Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

submitted 5 months ago by cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan is going up by a whopping $3, increasing from $17 to $20 monthly. The only subscribers getting a break are students, who will continue to pay $6 monthly.

Spotify announced the price hikes less than a year after its previous one last July. Before that, Spotify hadn't raised its fees since launching a decade and a half ago. I guess it was too optimistic to hope the next increase would also take that long, especially with Spotify's continued focus (and money dump) on audiobooks.

Premium subscribers should receive an email from Spotify in the next month detailing the price hike and providing a link to cancel their plan if they would prefer to do so. Users currently on a trial period for Spotify will get one month at $11 after it ends before being moved up to a $12 monthly fee.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 158 points 5 months ago (39 children)

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 68 points 5 months ago (14 children)

As someone else said: it doesn't replace streaming even a little. Pirating is replacing buying music directly. Streaming facilitates finding new music and trying it out. Being able to listen to anything at any time. You simply can't do that with downloads; no one can download everything. Piracy in this case really just works for people still listening to their highschool favs and not people looking for new stuff all the time.

[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This dude hasn't heard of pirate streaming services.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do they have the libraries of Spotify or Apple music?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

yeah actually

[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, in fact there are modded versions of the Spotify app (idk about apple) to access their library for free.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do they work like ReVanced Youtube and just remove ads/restrictions while keeping account properties? Or do they work like NewPipe and block all the algorithm stuff, use their own accounts/playlists?

[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Some do the first, some do the other

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