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Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)
submitted 9 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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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Just a reminder that the Tidal family account at the maximum subscription "grade" costs €16.

So you and 4x buddies can get very high quality audio for €3.20/mth.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I switched to Tidal recently from AppleMusic and I like it.

It should be noted if you’re listening through Bluetooth like most people then you can’t get high quality.

Also, they allow you to copy your music from other services, using a third party service which was great. It does have a charge and annoyingly it is a recurring charge. So I signed up, transferred my music and then cancelled.

I then sent them a message to say it sucks that they don’t have a one of few for doing this. If you use it and agree I would send them a similar message so they get the idea that most people don’t need continuous syncing.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What the fuck kind of service is that? Aren't there free ones—there were the last time I checked.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tune My Music.

To be honest I didn’t search for any, and just used where Tidal sent me. It was £3 to transfer it all.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Him. There's another one I don't remember its name.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Soundiiz. I used it to transfer my playlists one by one, for free.

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