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Imo raising the prices and reducing the quality of the service you get is a rug pull. You get on board with a certain expectation and then slowly but steadily you get less for your money - rarely a big jump, so you usually just stay on board because, since the last time, your expectations have shifted.
I know I'm just explaining 2020s capitalism to you but the point is, the days of a real, swift rug pull are over; it's death by a thousand cuts now - and whichever one feels to you like a rug pull may as well be The One, because it's only going to get worse, if this one didn't piss you off enough to leave, the next one might.
I say this as a person with 200gb of mp3 & flac. I've never had a sub to any of these "services" - though I do have a huge crush on the people who run ibroadcast.
I'm just a little confused by this one because I've been a heavy user of Spotify since around 2011. I haven't had any loved features pulled out from under me recently so I was trying to figure out what the circle jerk in here was all about.
I had tens of thousands of MP3s before I got into Spotify. The user experience of Spotify is so good that I haven't even considered messing around with managing my own library in more than a decade. I even watched the private communities that were dedicated to sharing MP3 and FLAC disappear as most users just found it easier to use a music streaming service. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Like I said, I've never actually used Spotify - I was just taking about subscription models generally. That person said how was it a rug pull off you saw it coming and while I can't speak to Spotify specially I can speak to the current state of rug pulls.
That's great that they worked for you, but there are a few songs I always used to search for when music services popped up - a few obscure things I like - and they didn't have them. I have broad tastes but they're almost all obscure.
You guys actually paying for Spotify?
No, I use ibroadcast, and they have an adequate free tier.
Spotify is easy to crack though, I enjoy free adless experience