Spotify Price Increase

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Spotify changed their pricing Structure and Introduced these new plans:

  1. Lite:
  • ₹139 / month
  • 1 Lite account
  • Audio quality (up to ~160kbps)
  1. Standard
  • 139 / month
  • Standard account
  • Download to listen offline
  • Audio quality (up to ~320kbps)
  1. Platinum
  • ₹299 / month
  • Up to 3 Platinum accounts
  • Download to listen offline
  • Lossless audio quality (up to ~24-bit/44.1kHz)
  • Mix your playlists
  • Your personal AI DJ
  • AI playlist creation
  • Connect your DJ software
  1. Student
  • ₹ 99 / month
  • Same features as standard
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So, Premium family is discontinued? i am not able see the family option.

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299/ for 3 Accounts
Now time for youtube to increase fro 299/ for 6 accounts

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It looks like platinum is new family plan. (Supports 3 users)

I am not sure if they will impose further restrictions based on address in future though.

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Coming soon

  • listen to 100 songs/day with some ads for only 299
  • 500 songs/day with some ads for 599
  • unlimited songs/day with some ads for only 1000
  • remove ads for only 5000/year

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Yours truly enshitification

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glad I switched to apple music. no bs, just high quality

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How is apple music for Android and windows pc?

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The problem with Apple Music is that their AI or whatever Machine learning algorithm that they have is the crappiest of them all. It just cannot help you by surfacing new songs unless you explicitly search for it and play it.

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And Apple device must to be an admin for subscription

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299 per month competes with a video platform like hotstar ad-free plan upto 4 devices.

199 competes with Netflix plan upto 1080p on one device.

Do people find value in Spotify so much to justify these prices which are similar to a video streaming platform that too when “good enough” alternatives are available.

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I have used Apple music on Android. There was no need for Apple device

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Yeah, problem is Spotify always have this great suggestion for new songs discovery, hard to beat that :face_with_bags_under_eyes:

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paying for subscription .
Usage can be on iOS , Android , Win , Linux doesnt matter

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Idk if im in the minority here, but I primarily use Spotify for the jam feature, if theres an alternative I’m out😂

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Don’t know about Android, but it has a decent app for Windows. It’s not as snappy as it is on MacOS, but I can’t complain. If streaming is all you want to do, you’ll have a decent time with it.

BUT, if you want to also manage your local music with it, then forget about it. There are countless annoyances with the app, the biggest being the lack of redundancy checks, so if you rename or move your files, you can accidentally add the same files multiple times without an easy way to remove them automatically. For managing a local collection, I recommend Navidrome or Koel.

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lmao I go out of my way to hide what I listen to from my friends and relatives

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How is the experience of spotify on Android?

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I am on a couple sharing plan of 149 per month, that’s discontinued?

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For local files in my windows pc, I use musicbee. I’m more concerned with streaming music on my android phone