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I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...

https://www.gbnews.com/tech/spotify-price-rise

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[–] Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

~~Well, it's owned by friggin' Epic, now... so they're not that far off with their Intel.~~

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They sold it to Songtradr in 2023, there were "layoffs", a lot of the employees involved with unionisation while Epic controlled the company were fired (in the wiki page toward the end of the history section).

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Wow, that trade went by very quietly. Glad they're out from Epic at least i guess... scummy as hell behavior from Songtradr...

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, was like just over a year later, they still are the independent & small label place imo, I don't have faith that'll last forever unfortunately. They still are my go to place for discovery and exploration, bandcamp daily still has some interesting finds, I just make sure I download my purchases.

[–] rmic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I'm going back to plexamp I guess.

[–] hornedfiend@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

What an awful website. You either sell your soul or you throw away your money. No thanks, I will stick to the post title.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I switched to Tidal when I realised their stream quality was, at the minimum, double Spotify, and cheaper. Then all the controversial shit about Spotty came out and I was just shaking my head disapprovingly from Tidal's porch

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[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Cool I can't pay any less than the zero I currently am subscribed at to not use their service

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

No biggie. I never had subscriptions. I always thought it was a waste of money.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

ive been using apple music for years, mainly like how for edm it tends to have highquality recorded live sets for all djs, and they are seperated instead of being one long continuous track, like youll get

  1. song
  2. song2/song3
  3. song4
  4. song5
  5. song6/song7/song8 Most convenient way to listen to them and get all the track names.
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