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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 ยฃ11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers...
They have prices? People are paying? ๐ค๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ฆ
I use Bandcamp when I want to buy and YouTube with ad blocker for streaming.
It's cheaper if you have 5 friends and take the family plan. I'm paying ~โฌ2 a month for the last couple of years.
of course there are ways round it, but that's not my point. Getting expensive
What pisses me off is that I can't have a family plaln associated with my main Google Workspace account. Because it's a Workspace account. So if I want to have a family plan for YouTube Music I need to have it associated with a gmail account not my workspace account. That's such bullshit, if you ask me!
I'm paying ยฃ20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer... That's how they get you ๐ญ. Now I'd have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around ยฃ17 when I started a few years back.
I do not recommend getting a family plan.
Music costs??
Ditched Spotify and bought myself a galleon and a tricorner hat instead. Haven't looked back.
Lidarr + Navidrome + Feishin + Metube
Mullvad for acquiring, TailScale and Symfonium for listening while away from home
This sounds like a lot of setup but probably took a few hours in total to set up the various docker images and get them working together.
I spend my saved money on vinyls, official merch, and SoundCloud or BandCamp purchases for my local library.
A few hours, when you know what you're doing. A few month when you have to figure it out, and maybe even then, it won't work, or you'll have lost a lot of money trying.
This should be a lot easier to do, than it is
fuck Spotify, I only listen to downloaded flac and mp3 music and YouTube
Well I am happy to have cancelled this shit a few months ago
I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I'm going back to plexamp I guess.
Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.
What an awful website. You either sell your soul or you throw away your money. No thanks, I will stick to the post title.
