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"Spotify is reportedly increasing the price of its Premium subscriptions to claw back the money it has splurged on audiobooks."

So I have to pay more for something I don't use?

I don't want podcasts, I don't want audiobooks, and I sure as hell don't want courses in my music streaming app.

Spotify should have just stuck with music. No need for all this other crap to be rolled in.

I agree, and would prefer to have a separate Spotify Podcasts app, but Spotify is one of the rare podcast players that supports multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and web/Desktop).

(Google Podcasts supports all mentioned platforms, but it's being replace with Youtube Music, which is no better than Spotify, at least based on reviews.)

After they broke the fear of prove roses I think we will see relatively speedy jumps up as Spotify in particular tries to adjust pricing to be on par with what it would have been if it had been adjusted for inflation since launch. What will be interesting is whether Apple Music follows suit, having recently increased its alongside Spotify last time.

What is interesting is that research from Music Watch, a music specialist consumer insights company in the US, appeared to show that people are somewhat price insensitive when it comes to music streaming. I think we may see a bit of price testing to find out where the churn threshold is.

Prove roses?! Price rises!
I moved to Navidrome a few months ago, I only listen to the same few albums. Didn't make much sense to cough up the 11 quid to stick with it.
I am thinking about setting up a closet server running Navidrome and some other things.

Do you think Navidrome works good? Are there any Android app for offline plays, for the car?

Tempo is great, it supports offline play and Android auto

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cappielloantonio.notquit...

>Do you think Navidrome works good?

Yeah, for the most part, few things I wouldn't have done but you're getting Navidrome as a Subsonic-compatible server.

That lets you play your stuff from very good clients like Feishin, rather than the web client.

>Are there any Android app for offline plays, for the car?

Don't know about Android, have a search for "subsonic" on the Play Store / F-Droid, and you'll definitely find something.

I have "AV Sub" on iOS, and that integrates with CarPlay.

And Tidal looking to move in with the recent massive price drop/quality increase double whammy.
FLAC audio and higher royalties towards artists for $5/month (student discount) is actually insane, considering all i'm missing out on are podcasts/audiobooks.
Almost double official inflation rate.
Yes - but until they bumped to £10.99 recently they hadn’t increased the price at all. Inflation adjusted from launch the single user premium price should be about £17.99 I think.