Spotify

[spaceship]

That's interesting. I've not moved onto W11 yet, but at least they're working on something separate from iTunes.

You can use the the Apple Music web app (music.apple.com) which is miles better than iTunes. It has everything except lossless and Atmos.

 

[~Paul~]

You can use the the Apple Music web app (music.apple.com) which is miles better than iTunes. It has everything except lossless and Atmos.

Jesus I didn't even know that existed, what is wrong with me. Thank you.

 

[slaybellz]

They changed how the local files thing worked on Spotify and it's rubbish now. All my downloaded music is on my PC and I had it added to Spotify as local files and it played on all my playlists, no matter which device I was using, as long as I'd synced the playlists.

Then they changed it so that the local files you were playing had to be on the device you were playing them on. So whenever I was out driving, my playlists would skip all the local files, as they were not on my iPhone.

That might have changed again and there might have been other ways around it, but I found it really irritating, when it worked perfectly for years.

Oh I see. Yeah the way it used to be, all you had to do was plop it into your Spotify folder then sync it and that was it. Sucks they changed it.

 

[Laurence]

Price increase announced.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-07-24/adjusting-our-spotify-premium-prices/

New prices:

Premium Single	Premium Duo	Premium Family	Premium Student
$10.99	$14.99	$16.99	$5.99

 

[Bobbyrae]

And still no HiFi announcement? These idiots.

I’m manifesting mass backlash.

 

[soratami]

I guess it was inevitable, but oh well, at least a 1€/month increase is minimal, could've been worse.

Now since prices are being upped everywhere, how about bringing all those features only available to people living in English-speaking countries to everyone else hmm @Spotify.

 

[enjoy]

I guess it was inevitable, but oh well, at least a 1€/month increase is minimal, could've been worse.

Now since prices are being upped everywhere, how about bringing all those features only available to people living in English-speaking countries to everyone else hmm @Spotify.

Yeah where is the DJ feature? I've given up on HiFi at this point.

 

[soratami]

Yeah where is the DJ feature? I've given up on HiFi at this point.

And the liked songs filters! That's the main one for me ff, I know I'll use that all the time if/when we ever do get it.

 

[Laurence]

And still no HiFi announcement? These idiots.

I’m manifesting mass backlash.

I doubt it considering everything is increasing with inflation and they are very late to do this, but would be cool if we get some nice new stuff out of it. Flop Barcelona supporters.

 

[bestinase]

Can't wait for all my favourite artists to see some more money from this price increase!! xx

 

[soratami]

Can't wait for all my favourite artists to see some more money from this price increase!! xx

The artists in question

 

[WowWowWowWow]

As we continue to grow our platform, we are updating our Premium prices so that we can keep innovating in changing market conditions. These updates will help us continue delivering value to fans.

zzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Trouble in Paradise]

Yeah I love the push notification of the cost going up with no added features and a link to cancel account dd

 

[JonBcn]

Yeah, I just got an email about the price change. The justification is so annoying. If they'd said it was because they're committed to giving artists a better share of the income I'd be all for it - hey, increase it by 50%, fine! But ff it's for giving me more 'updates and innovations' that uniformly make the platform less enjoyable to use on weekly basis (the fact that my list of playlists seems to change order and filter EVERY SINGLE TIME I navigate to it on my desktop drives me absolutely bananas), you're taking the piss.

 

[Vasilios]

Paying to play GIRLIE pop by Bananarama, Ava Max and Kylie only for the money to go to footie... DIABOLICAL

 

[RMK]

I kind of loved the in-app pop up about it because they weren't really selling it, it was like "hey! we're upping the cost. cancel here if you'd like xx".


I'm not going anywhere, though.

 

[XS.]

I know that 0 of the money is going to go to the artists (though if they were actually smart they'd try and sell it as "it's to support the music you love!"), but like... 1 dollar extra per month to have access to basically... all music that has ever been released seems pretty fair to me dd? They probably should have raised it ages ago.

 

[Mikal]

Agreed. I play music all day every day, Spotify is the ultimate bargain. They can have my extra euro.

 

[popjunkie]

I mainly use Apple Music but use Spotify to discover music which is a bit of a waste of money but it helps me find so much I’d never find otherwise.

But if you’re using Spotify with AirPods the quality to convert from 320kbps .ogg to 256kbps .m4a (which is how the AirPods work) makes it sound so bad. Aside from not offering lossless this conversion is just poor quality in comparison to Apple Music which doesn’t need to do a conversion for AirPods.

If Spotify offer lossless eventually at least the conversion from lossless to 256kbps .m4a to play on AirPods might actually work out well and sound better even though AirPods can’t play lossless audio.

 

[spaceship]

I mainly use Apple Music but use Spotify to discover music which is a bit of a waste of money but it helps me find so much I’d never find otherwise.

But if you’re using Spotify with AirPods the quality to convert from 320kbps .ogg to 256kbps .m4a (which is how the AirPods work) makes it sound so bad. Aside from not offering lossless this conversion is just poor quality in comparison to Apple Music which doesn’t need to do a conversion for AirPods.

If Spotify offer lossless eventually at least the conversion from lossless to 256kbps .m4a to play on AirPods might actually work out well and sound better even though AirPods can’t play lossless audio.

Honestly, I don't think it has anything to do with the AirPods conversion because you can still hear the lackluster sound quality in a car or speakers at home. I think they did something a couple of months ago that truly worsened the quality so I wish they just stop processing the sound and let us have the true masters like Apple Music.