• Space Sloth@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never used the free tier on Spotify and I don’t understand how anyone can. The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust. So yeah, not going to affect me, and I do enjoy reading the lyrics a lot.

    That said, I am experimenting with swapping over to Apple Music because I feel Spotify has become too expensive.

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      1 year ago

      With xManager, the free tier comes quite close to premium. No ads, play whatever music you like. The only issues are lower sound quality & no downloads, which are really non-issues since you can just find other sources to download the music from, at flac quality

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      1 year ago

      The ads aren’t even for anything. It was just really patronising ads for Spotify Premium.

      Their business model is genuinely to just annoy you into paying.

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            1 year ago

            They were so much more expensive than Pandora when I tried them out and the free tier was too awful to want to reward them with my money, so I did pay but it went to a competitor. Their music recommendations were terrible compared to Pandora, too.

            I don’t use Pandora now though, they got bought by SiriusXM who I will never pay again after they made cancelation such a difficult process.

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      1 year ago

      Spotify gives me ads and when I complain they tell me they’re not ads and that they’re offers lol. My only complaint.

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      1 year ago

      I recently flipped to apple music and apart from seeing a few songs missing on albums i don’t really listen to anyway, it’s only been an improvement. the lossless audio is quite nice