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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So now that Tidal has moved its Hi-Fi tier price down to match Apple's wtf is Spotify doing? Charging more than the competition, paying artists less, and not even offering lossless?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Spotify is less vulnerable to customer churn compared to TV/movie streaming services, as users are less likely to switch music streaming providers due to the hassle of rebuilding playlists and losing personalized recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There are services for transferring playlists

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yes but often there are some mixups... which is a PITA for those of us with ~10K+ songs

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

I'm an album man so while I have beyond that many tracks it's more seemless for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I predict in a few months, they will put their API behind a paid tier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Data takeouts are non-optional under the GDPR, so I would be very surprised if that happens.

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

Would you happen to have one to recommend to switch from Spotify to apple music? I’m thinking about moving but my playlists are keeping me from leaving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's probably I few. I used Soundiiz before, just get a free trial and convert them. I also just found Playlisty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I used TuneMyMusic when I switched to Amazon Music a few months ago. It worked really well. It costs $4 or $5 to subscribe for a month but it's a huge time saver.

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

I moved all my music using the SongShift app on iOS which was super convenient. At least when I bought it, it was a 1 time cost of like $5, not sure about now. But it matches songs and lets you see which ones don’t line up and then copies the playlist over exactly the same.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

And as long as people keep subscribing to them, they'll March right along collecting that sweet money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

And they don’t offer music videos like Apple does

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

Spotify has over 200mill paying subscribers and over 600mill total I believe. They an afford the peel off unfortunately.

From what I can tell Tidal won’t even publish their subscribers so it must be pretty small.

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

Nvm I think my app bugged out