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

  • shoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Out of curiosity, what is your experience/usage like with this? Spotify is very easy to justify if you heavily use some of their features because there’s not a way (that I know of) to replicate them. For example:

    • Shared playlists
    • Universal links directly to songs
    • Playback control from a second device
    • Group listen/jam
    • Zero overhead for search and discovery. From someone mentioning a band you can find, sample, and add to a playlist in 30s or less
    • Public playlist discovery
    • Easy crawling. Eg. browsing from Song -> Featured Artist -> Album -> Record label -> Related Artists etc…

    From my usage, sacrificing a majority of those is a non-starter because my Spotify usage has become more than mp3 hosting and organization.

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      I scrobble with Last.FM for music discovery.

      I don’t really use social features and not sure if they’re popular in homelab land. Some people I know share a Plex server.

      I’m not a purist about these things tbh, I have an Xbox live subscription, among others, to use social features for pretty much the same reason you’re using Spotify. I might have stuck with them if I was using them more.