by mouselett
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- I have to be honest, I immediately decided to quit the service and subscribe to YouTube Premium as soon as I saw the news yesterday. I would've been fine if it was just the regular full-priced subscription offerings that were increasing in price, but to do it to the student plan as well? And for what, to cover the costs of Hulu? It's not like audiobooks are included with the student plan! Given that this latest price hike now puts Spotify's student plan within a dollar of YouTube Premium's student plan while being more expensive than almost every other music streamer's student plans, I decided to take the plunge and subscribe to YouTube Premium, because if Spotify's going to increase the price of their subscriptions and not offer a good reason to do it, then why even bother?
by neuralRiot
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- I noticed the price creeping the last time and just said to me “when it touches the $15 mark it’s gone, it seems to be approaching there so I’ll look for a different platform or just go back to mp3s.
by JoshGlazebrook
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- $22/month for a family plan of 5 people to have unlimited streaming is more than worth it to me. They would have to triple the price for me to even think about it being an issue. And this is coming from someone who was on what.cd for years.
I also prefer Spotify over apple music and youtube music from a ui/ux perspective as well.
- I recently switched to an iPod and have a Samba server that I can use to access my music library on the go if needed, via WireGuard. Honestly, I could not be more happier with it. I think there are very few advantages for technically inclined people to still pay for streaming services, and the fees are not one of them.
by AbstractH24
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- We’re not there yet, but boggles me that we’re getting close to the big disruptive startups of the 2010s getting disrupted themselves.
More in the on demand space, but here too I’m sure
by amanaplanacanal
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- Cancelled mine a while ago. My partner likes watching YouTubers on the TV, and I can't abide ads. So I pay for YouTube, get rid of the ads, and get free music streaming as a benefit. Win win win!
by jqpabc123
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- Thanks for reminding me why I don't have a Spotify account.
- Pandora is still around, as well as a few other similar services
by pepperball
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- I haven’t cancelled Spotify etc but I axed HBO max after what seemed to be the third email about another price increase in a short period.
Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.
- In related news, I bought a CD player today
by ChrisArchitect
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- Source: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-15/premium-pricing-upda...
by DoesntMatter22
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- I have youtube premium to avoid youtube ads and now I use YouTube Music myself and it's great. Saves me money and I love it
by fred_is_fred
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- I don't think it's nearly as good but I use Apple Music streaming since it's bundled and doesn't actively fund Joe Rogan's insanity.
- awesome! Thanks for the 3 month free!
by nine_zeros
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