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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Plexamp, Lidarr, Lidarr extended, Tailscale. Done.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Done. Until it can’t find a decent quality option for an album you’re searching for.

A guy I know decided to move away from Spotify and pirate music. The amount of effort he went through means it’s something I’ll probably never try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is the biggest problem for me. I have thousands of movies and 10s of thousands of TV episodes, but my audio library is still all the same stuff I downloaded from Napster, Limewire, Kazaa 20+ years ago. It's too hard to find a good selection these days outside of a few private trackers. I'm in several private trackers but I'm not going to sit in a queue for 2 days waiting for an interview time and jump through hoops to join something like RED or PTP tier tracker.

Not to mention I mostly listen to podcasts these days and when I do listen to music, I try to find new stuff that I've never heard of rather than searching for a known artist. This would be way too convoluted to do on my own with some self-hosted solution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been using deemix, and for the most part it’s been pretty seamless. Stuff direct downloads instantly, but it’s all in 128kbps now unfortunately. Then I have lidarr monitor everything for a lossless version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Are you saying Deemix only downloads at 128kbps? If so, I've been using it as well and download in FLAC. Also, I pay for the family plan which is $15.99/month.

Edit: Ah, I'm guessing you're not on a paid Deezer plan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I’m on the free plan which used to include FLAC and 320kpbs, but they stopped doing that for free plans about a year ago I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

USENET. Thank me later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Got one or two you might recommend?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just some perspective: I've been self-hosting stuff for 7y now, started with plex on a nas. I have tried a couple times to get the *arr stack working, one at a time and fuck me it's complex and the risk of fucking up the config and data crossing the clearnet without a VPN, noooope fuck right off with that. That risk/reward just is too skewed for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

it's not that complex, really. Yet, the variant I described doesn't do anything torrenty. It scrapes the songs from tidal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

But how do you handle music discovery?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Since all music services I've tried so far are laughably shit at that anyway, Last.fm is your friend. Besides, Plexamp tries to get you into a Tidal subscription and suggests things from there, so you'll get stuff here nad there.