Merry Christmas to all those families!
Yes, we had record profits but our CEO has the job of raising the share price so that investors can buy and sell higher, so we have to find more profits somewhere.
You understand.
Classic that once wrapped is out to everyone they fire a huge amount of there workforce just a few weeks before Christmas. Shows why the streaming model is a sham.
Mark my words, a Disney style price raise is in the cards, probably before summer 2024
At this point Spotify offers less than competitors with Spotify hi-fi being a bunch of imaginary bullshit. I only subscribe to spotify when they offer me 3 months for the price of one.
Raising prices would be absurd.
What competitors do you recommend?
I use soundcloud and have used Bandcamp but Bandcamp got sold to Epic.
I have also heard of Faircamp which looks promising.one of my friends uses deezer, there is actual lossless audio there.
tidal is also supposed to be good, but i heard horrible things about the app.
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well, i am an audiophile myself and i do think having lossless out of principle is pretty reasonable, even if you can’t tell the difference. especially with how fast the internet has gotten, we don’t need to compress anymore. and with serious sets of headphones (even with DT770 pros) i can definetely tell a difference between an internal DAC and a 20€ external DAC. the better the components, the more expensive the product (plus audiophile tax).
edit: i read up on it and it turns out a properly compressed file is basically indistiguishable from an uncompressed one. (emphasis on “properly”) so you may have a point, but if the people want FLACs, why not let them have them? and if you spend little money on audio equipment, good for you if you like it that way, but people are allowed to spend money on stuff.
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I switched to a TIDAL subscription a couple of months ago. The whole experience, apart from sound quality, is a downgrade from Spotify Premium. I still recommend it to people because supposedly they pay a better cut per stream to artists. The sound quality upgrade is quite noticable if you have good sound gear.
Nice I will give Deezer a try.
They can’t exactly afford to go higher than the round 10 we have a month. It will cost them a lot of customers just from the sheer inconvenience caused by the change in gift cards.
This effect would happen even at just 1 cent above the convenient pricing. That means if they increase the price, they have to make up for the immediate loss of “convenience users” which means higher price again which leads to an exponential spiral.
We are more likely to see ads being forced into Spotify premium.
Given the recent successes of other streaming platforms integrating ads into previously ad free levels, I think you’re right.
A higher price I can stand but ads in a paid service? If they do that, I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t just use ublock origin with Spotify on the web or a modded APK instead.
So glad I left when they paid Joe Rogan money
I’m sorry, they did what? Out of the loop on this one, but that guy is fucking brain cancer
Spotify paid him to be the exclusive distributor for his “first stop on the alt-right train” podcast. Rumored to have been $200 million.
Even more than that now, and that’s why I will never use spotify again.
These actions have real world CONSEQUENCES, and spotify is starting to see what they are.
I went back to good ol MP3 files about a year ago in an effort to lower montly subscriptions and the tiktokification of spotify was a big reason why.
Radiolemmy.com is also a nice alternative to find music you didn’t know about, the rotation just needs to grow
Not only the rotation, we need more presenters (every single one, including myself has been busy) to air on the station too, because honestly those sessions are peak Radio Lemmy. (please come back psythik we can’t let radio lemmy die)
I always have (stayed woth MP3s) but its harder and harder to even listen to them away from a phone. Major issue I have now is it’s a PITA to play a local library on networked speakers (Echo, specifically) w/out voice interaction being the sole means of use. I just want a tablet with a nice interface to allow me to play music on various Echo’s and speaker sets.
Bluetooth is an option, but it’s not really “home automation” setup friendly.
Jellyfin/plex/Navidone as a backend, synfonium as the app.
I dont use echo, but it has casting and upnp support so it should work with echo.
What do you mean with ‘tiktokification of Spotify’?
I stopped using Spotify at least a few years ago because they started serving adverts to paying customers - so I’m out of the loop.
That should help company morale. I’m so glad these selfless CEOs are always doing the right thing!
Hey just remember those CEOs take more risk eith their capital that’s why they deserve a bigger pay. Unlike these workers that have just been layer off weeks before Christmas, that have the luxury of a low risk reliable job!
Dude, it’s not possible to spend millions on sports deals with FC Barcelona, if you don’t cut peoples jobs away. That’s obviously more important!
Same shit, different corporation. They established sort of a monopoly by lower prices and venture capital. Now they start to collect large amounts of money and go down.
