• David From Space@orbiting.observer
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      51
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sorry, best we can do is make a new tier at the same price that only plays music, while we jack up the price of the new Premium Plan to account for ‘rising market costs’!

      • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        To be fair spotify bleads money, because the big music labels are sucking most of the money out of spotify.

        Podcasts and stuff are their way of trying to get out of that uncomfortable situation, because they own the rights of the stuff produced via their platform.

    • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      Perhaps as likely as YouTube Premium separating music access from no ads on videos… I wish. It keeps me locked in.

      • TrustingZebra@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        They had that YouTube Premium Lite tier in a few regions, which was basically that. But Google just killed it.

    • souma@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      Hard to beat $10 for unlimited music and podcasts + soon to be audiobooks

      • lud@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        The audiobooks is very limited though. Just 15 hours per month (many books are longer than that) and in the case of duo and family plans, only the master account gets audiobooks.

        • vamp07@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          That’s interesting I didn’t know it was limited to the main account. I’m a big audiobook listener, and the idea of being able to listen to something but then move on to something else is appealing. I pay for one credit on Audible every month but I have a lot of books, that after getting into them for a couple hours I realize they’re not really for me. That’s a lot of wasted money.  I wonder if the Spotify is going to give you the option to buy the book? 

          • lud@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            You can apparently buy an 10 hour extension if your hours run out.

            Depending on how expensive that is, it might still be worth it.

            • vamp07@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              But this is not released yet, right? I went and picked a couple audiobooks to listen them to them, but it comes back that I have to go into Spotify on the web and buy them and when I go there, I literally have to buy them there’s no listening to X hours, etc. 

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s understandable why they are doing this. Apparently the company has never ever made any profits, and since the main 3 record labels are demanding 70% of the revenue from Spotify, they can’t do anything to change that revenue split to 50-50 instead as an example.