Last year's price hike worked out very well for the company, so why not do it again? Spotify is preparing a revamp of its plans and prices, according to a...
Spotify being as cheap as it is, has always been a temporary tactic to destroy competition, not an indicator of how cheap Spotify will be once competition was utterly destroyed.
Prices will keep going up and up, but the normalization of artist’s labor being worthless will remain unchanged and the only artists that get a share of Spotify’s increasing profits will be artists that make specific deals with Spotify.
The music industry has been utterly destroyed, this is the fail state, the worst case scenario, especially given the fact that Bandcamp is functionally dead as a force for musicians after it was bought by Epic.
Spotify can't destroy their competition. Their competitors are among the richest companies in the world. If anything, Spotify will be destroyed or acquired, not the other way around.
I’ve used an service that was like $5 for 1 month to migrate music between streaming services before canceling. Believe it was called soundiiz. Got songs and playlists from pandora, prime music, SoundCloud, etc all over to Spotify. Now might do again away from Spotify.
FYI YouTube premium includes YouTube music. Pretty cool to start a music video or live set video then switch to music only and put my phone in my pocket and keep listening, then turn back in the video portion at a certain song. I know lemmy hates YouTube but whatevs
I use Prime Music for most stuff now which I'm sure some people will make a face about but it works really well for what I need. The only issue I've ever had with it is some albums disappear as rights to it change