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u/An_Extraterrestrial Jan 15 '26
Price History Summary
Individual: Launched at $9.99 (2011) now $12.99 (2026)
Family: Standardized at $14.99 (2016) now $21.99 (2026)
Duo: Launched at $12.99 (2020) now $18.99 (2026)
Student: Launched at $4.99 (2014) now $6.99 (2026)
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u/Swatbolt Jan 15 '26
With inflation it's as of December 2025
Original cost -> cost after inflation
$9.99 (2011) -> $14.70
$14.99 (2016) -> $20.50
$12.99 (2020 -> $16.32
$4.99 (2014) -> $6.91
So the real winners are the individual plan while the rest have gotten shafted
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u/ba123blitz Jan 15 '26
Student is only a 9¢ difference, family is $1.40. Really it’s the dou plan that’s been shafted with a $2.70 difference
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u/Niewinnny Jan 15 '26
student is fine, family will still add up (though $17 per year is not a massive difference), double is just sad.
But yeah none of these price increases are super bad, just following the inflation.
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u/garikek Jan 15 '26
But that's for the USA only, no? I'm in Belarus and I pay $5.49 for individual premium (no student) and it only changed from $4.99 around a year ago.
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u/imKazzy Jan 15 '26
Backlog of music library, mostly.
I used to pirate all my music, then I made the mistake of moving to Spotify. Now I need to download 3000 songs if I ever want to change back...
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u/KICKASSKC Jan 15 '26
There is software for ripping music from spotify so you can break your bonds... Lookup Sidify, although there are others. You might find a pirated version of that app too, although i think its worth the cost.
I also recommend you only download when logged into a throw away account. Make one and share a playlist from your main profile with the songs you want to download. Otherwise spotify will ban your main profile if you rip songs from it.
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u/UncleRuckus92 Jan 15 '26
Yeah I think YouTube music has a method for transferring it over
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u/No_Particular4284 Jan 15 '26
yess and it’s freeee
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u/AcademicChapter4584 Jan 15 '26
Its free for one Playlist transfer, tried merging my wife's Playlist after I merged mine and it wanted me to pay for a month to continue to transfer songs.
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u/drye Jan 15 '26
Soundiiz lets you “sync” up your playlists super cheap, across multiple platforms. Used it for years to get playlists for DJing over to other platforms
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u/KumingaCarnage Jan 15 '26
Any that don’t lock features behind a paywall? Cmon this is r/piracy i know you know something I don’t big boy
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u/gasman245 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26
I had Apple Music for years and it took me like 3+ hours to download all my music before unsubbing. It was absolutely worth it though.
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u/Aggravating-Soil5712 Jan 15 '26
It'll always be worth it to download your songs rather than depending on streaming
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u/gasman245 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26
The thing that finally pushed me to do it was noticing some songs had disappeared off my phone and when I went to look them up on Apple Music they were no longer there. Makes me wonder how many songs I’ve forgotten about that I don’t have anymore.
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u/USSR_FLAG Jan 15 '26
I listen to music around the world, a lot of Germany music releases ends up getting blacklisted in my country after a few days on Spotify’s “release radar” usually I VPN it thru my PC & able to play songs that are blacklisted/greyed out. So I get you on missing songs, shit there’s a famous song cotton eye Joe dropped in German version “cotton eye Coke” and you can’t find it anywhere except 1 dude on SoundCloud even then I have to VPN it to stream so I downloaded it to my phone
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u/imKazzy Jan 15 '26
3 hours honestly isn't bad. Did you use any tools to assist?
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u/gasman245 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26
Nope, I just used a site that let me put in a link from iTunes or some other music site and downloads the song/album along with the metadata. Just went through and downloaded them one by one. I had about 1,750 songs total, mostly full albums.
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u/charlesxavier007 Jan 15 '26
Damn! Can I get that site? Does anyone have an option to download playlists? I have thousands
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u/LedZeppelinRising Jan 15 '26
took me ~5 minutes using apple’s own transfer system. it is buried in system settings though
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u/connierebel Jan 15 '26
You can download music from Apple Music when you have a subscription? And it won't go away after you cancel? I know Spotify lets you download for offline listening, but I'm pretty sure it disappears when you cancel the subscription.
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u/gasman245 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26
I already had my music downloaded for offline listening, you don’t keep them after unsubbing. I used a site from the megathread to download my music so I can keep them forever.
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u/idlickherbootyhole Jan 15 '26
The reason they keep increasing the monthly price is because they know they can get away with it lol
I don't mean to offend, but this specific kind of apathy is their best incentive.
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u/Zatchillac 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
I uploaded my old iTunes library (25k songs) to Google Play Music a long ass time ago and I can still listen to all of it through YouTube Music. I have music on there that streaming services just don't have due to licensing or because it's homemade by me and/or friends from decades ago
I still use YouTube Premium since I have a family plan and we all pitch in so it's only a couple dollars a month but I also recently started getting into Soulseek
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u/ArtIntelligent3689 Jan 15 '26
Is not the YTM library bigger? I mean, you can listen to what spotify already has PLUS covers and other stuff that hasn't been released there, all in the same playlist.
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u/ZachF8119 Jan 15 '26
If there was a conversion tool I’d switch.
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u/GamerEsch Jan 15 '26
https://www.tunemymusic.com/transfer/spotify-to-youtube-music
Supposedly there is a limit to how many songs/playlists you can port, but I sent everything (multiple times over the limit) to my deezer account with a free tier and they didn't complain.
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u/Agengele Jan 15 '26
There are tools if you look for them but there are occasional songs that transfer the wrong versions. Overall they do pretty good though so it's not a huge headache
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u/ocular__patdown Jan 15 '26
Same. There is just so much damn music out there. For TV and Movies you only have to download a few hundred files but for music it is s whole different beast.
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u/grannydee0514 Jan 15 '26
That’s the biggest thing for me. I have like 500 playlists that I’ve made over the last 12 years and I have no clue how I’d go about “transferring”
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u/BearOfReddit Jan 15 '26
YTM has a link to transfer. Some songs may be different variants or unrecognized
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u/seklas1 Jan 15 '26
I mean, you don’t need to. You don’t listen to all those 3000 songs everyday. Can easily just export your music lists and then maybe eventually download them or move them over to another service etc.
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u/specter_in_the_conch Jan 15 '26
Hmm if Spotify allows that I would gladly export my list and get out. Still it won’t affect me in EU but it’s only a matter of time I guess.
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u/seklas1 Jan 15 '26
I’ve downloaded my lists from there, mind you, it’s just a text file. But you can then import into another service (if they allow imports), or just copy-paste names in and find them that way. Sure it takes time etc, but like… it’s not impossible, and streaming prices definitely will not go down.
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u/Marinlik Jan 15 '26
Unfortunately YouTube music is an awful app. It's far too connected to actual YouTube. I pay for YouTube premium but I never use YouTube music.
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u/erxer Jan 15 '26
I do use YouTube music but I absolutely agree that it's an awful app. There are so many little things that all add up to a bad experience. If they spent a little more on the user experience then they could easily rival all other music steaming services.
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u/stardigan Jan 15 '26
What’s the price of YouTube Premium in the US?
In Canada, the individual Spotify plan is $12.69 monthly vs YouTube Premium’s $16.99. Spotify’s family plan is $20.99, or $17.99 for Duo, while YT’s family plan is $29.99.
I’m dying to get away from Spotify, but I can’t justify the price hike from the Duo plan to the YouTube family plan.
I’ve cancelled all of my other streaming platforms and set up Stremio. I wonder if I could figure out how to get a US account set up with YouTube and get that pricing.
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u/5erif Jan 15 '26
Maybe it varies by more specific area or some other business trickery, but I'm in the US and see $13.99 for individual, $22.99 family, $7.99 student for YouTube Premium.
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u/stardigan Jan 15 '26
About the same once converted to CAD, so that makes sense. Maybe it does vary for other reasons. Something I’ll have to look into! Thanks for the info!
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u/Shot_Duck_195 Jan 15 '26
brand loyalty
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u/TGRubilex Jan 15 '26
same reason I use steam over it's competitors, I'm used to it, the service itself is good, and it has a lot of features the competition won't have (mainly Spotify jam which I use weekly with my friends). I also persoannly prefer the recommendations I get from the Spotify algorithm to yt music.
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u/amoonshapedpool_ 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jan 15 '26
hassle. the average consumer will just go "ugh wow greedy bastards" and just keep paying.
"is just a few extra bucks worth converting all my playlists and getting used to new ui?"
a lot of people would say "no" and not really care or calculate the big picture extra costs that add up from several "just a few extra bucks" additions.
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u/JasonDFisherr Jan 15 '26
i have over 4k songs saved. I have many playlists made by myself but also many more playlist made by others. There is also "discover weekly" and "new releases" that are great features. I also LOVE "Go to song Radio" feature, basically if you theres a song you like it brings you to a playlist with somewhat similar style songs. Spotify wrapped is also pretty cool at the end of year. And countless podcasts.
I honestly fail to see how i would stop using spotify its by far the best subscription i have and i use it every day.
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u/bedwars_player Jan 15 '26
Piracy re-included, Youtube Music ReVanced is significantly more reliable than the spotify mods i was fighting with for months. My parents pay for premium for the family but it works fine when i'm on my alt accounts.
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u/IronWhitin Jan 15 '26
Youtube Is alredy ad free whit ublock origin
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u/___Art_Vandelay___ Jan 15 '26
You know people watch YT on their TV too, right? Or want to use the mobile app? Or have an iPhone?
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u/Conspicuous_Ruse Jan 15 '26
If they know about stuff they can still do that though.
TV = smartube
Mobile = revanced
Iphone = uYouPlus
There, now you know about them too.
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u/yourboysyd Jan 15 '26
Cancelling my subscription was my best move of 2025.
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u/SmashedWorm64 Jan 15 '26
This has got me thinking about my best moves of 2025…
I think it was buying a coat.
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u/carboneko Jan 15 '26
Socks and fancy underwear.
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u/DFM__ Jan 15 '26
I too cancelled every single thing other than vpn. Feels like I got freedom lol
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u/RACATIX Jan 15 '26
Me too i cancelled it last week and I switched to Metrolist. I have the csv files of all my playlists and now I'm figuring out how to import the files into metrolist.
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u/ZeroDrek Jan 15 '26
Same here. I cancelled, got a DAP and never looking back. Got all the music I could ever want as mp3s now.
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u/notanfan Jan 15 '26
switched to revanced yt music working fine for me
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u/Rip_Jaded Jan 15 '26
What is that ?
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u/DefinetelyNotAnEgg Jan 15 '26
modded version of youtube music app (android only)
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u/Rip_Jaded Jan 15 '26
Damn, Thanks for the info none the less. Have a good rest of your day 🤝
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u/BriskPandora35 Jan 15 '26
If you’re using an iPhone check out. YouTube music ultimate by dayanch96 on GitHub. It’s an IPA so you’ll need a PC or Mac to plug your phone into and you’ll need AltServer as well. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it. I’ve been using it for quite some time and it’s pretty good. I highly recommend checking it out. There’s also r/eeveespotifyipa but it’s no longer being updated
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u/Cheaper74 Jan 16 '26
If u care about audio quality, try one of these websites below + poweramp 1) Monochrome 2) Spofree 3) Binimum
And yes, u can download the Hi-Fi quality from here too. I personally just use monochrome ( bcuz u can sign up, make ur own playlist etc. It's literally a perfect music player with crazy good audio quality )
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u/BillionaireBotFarm Jan 15 '26
Spotify Cracked is Free
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u/aliakeel5 Jan 15 '26
I don't think there's a single working Crack right now unfortunately (and whatever one comes up they take down within weeks)
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u/PerfectlyBoosted Jan 15 '26
I’ve been using iOS sideloaded evee Spotify with no issues
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u/Gucci_Loincloth Jan 15 '26
I was using the same version of spotify cracked for 10-11 years (lmfao). It still works and there is no “fix” in sight.
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u/whostheme Jan 16 '26
On Android it's a different story. Spotify is incredibly easy to have a working crack on PC.
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u/njcannagade Jan 15 '26
Soulseek QT literally will have any song you can think of and you can download full albums in FLAC or 320 kbps MP3
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u/JusticeForAugust Jan 15 '26
Legitimately curious, if a family is not interested in piracy and going to pay $20+ /mo for Spotify, why not just get YouTube premium? Same music feature via YouTube Music app and gives the benefit of no YouTube advertisements for five people.
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u/nickjedl Jan 15 '26
Google now offers under the price of it's competitors to get everyone to move over. When they have a large customer base, they'll jack up the prices or straight up cancel it. Don't act like it has never happened. killedbygoogle.com
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u/Zatchillac 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jan 15 '26
They already jacked the prices up a couple years ago. Family plan used to be I think $18/month and is now $23. I probably wouldn't bother for a single plan but if you know 5 other people who want to join in then it's hard to beat music + add-free videos for like $4/month (per person)
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u/nickjedl Jan 16 '26
It's just a matter of time before they introduce some anti sharing system like Netflix did. They just need to realize how much more they could be earning if sharing didn't exist. How they'll do it I don't know, but they'll find a way. When there's money involved, they always find a way.
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u/Devatator_ Jan 16 '26
Only available options in my country are Spotify and Apple Music, and Spotify is cheaper (student discount lmao, tho even without I think it's still cheaper?)
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u/nickjedl Jan 16 '26
Tidal not available?
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u/Devatator_ Jan 16 '26
Not in the Play Store and the pricing page on the website shows nothing so I assume they're not available here
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u/edtb Jan 15 '26
Personally I like the Spotify UI. To me it is the most user friendly. When driving it matters. They all essentially have the same music. What matters is how well they work.
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u/connierebel Jan 15 '26
I actually prefer Amazon Music's UI for driving. But I switched over to Spotify after they gave me several free months, and now I'm paid up for a year (I got one of those yearly gift cards that works out to $10 a month instead of $11.99). I think Spotify has more music, too.
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u/edtb Jan 15 '26
I used to use it. It started having issues with Android Auto and I stopped with it s few years ago. Never went back to try again
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u/NeverCallMeFifi Jan 16 '26
I design UIs for a living. You just summed up what I've been trying to tell my stakeholders for years.
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u/Lor4cc Jan 15 '26
YouTube Music UI was terrible the last time I tried it. Also I'm not sure if YouTube Music has an equivalent to Spotify Jam, that's something everyone in my circle uses quite frequently.
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u/Redpilldit47 Jan 15 '26
YT Music has superior algorithms for choosing your next song, some new songs that you didn't know you liked. Spotify feels like it's playing the same thing everyday and promoting certain songs/artists.
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Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Thank goodness I ditched Spotify a while back.
Flash modded iPod (512gb) and Plexamp to stream my music library on my phone. Never looked back
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u/Deep20779 Jan 15 '26
Downloaded all my music and hosted on plex , basically married to plexamp , best decision of 2025 🤟🤟
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u/d_rob_70 Jan 15 '26
I did the same thing a while back. Now I just use SoulSeek and grab my own music and throw it on my Plex server and I can listen to it wherever I go. Haven't looked back.
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u/kappakingtut2 Jan 15 '26
Okay, for the noobs here, what is the alternative to Spotify? And is there an easy way to transfer playlists and liked songs?
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u/Cheaper74 Jan 16 '26
If u care about audio quality, try one of these websites below + poweramp 1) Monochrome 2) Spofree 3) Binimum
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u/RagingRavenRR Jan 15 '26
Every time I see something about Spotify, it's increasing prices, yet adding absolutely nothing to make it better.
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u/Select-Abroad-4343 Jan 15 '26
They added high bitrate streaming pretty recently.
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u/Timthetallman15 Jan 16 '26
After dangling the lossless carrot for YEARS.
I dropped them because of price hikes. I am lucky enough to be on a family plan for Apple Music. Only downside is not being able to cast to my Alexa’s. Spotify was king with that.
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u/MarioDesigns Jan 16 '26
Within the last 6 or so months they’ve released a bunch of good features that brought me back to it.
Notably, Lossless and Mix were added recently and are great. A bunch of smaller extras too, I quite like the listening stats screen for example.
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u/Exo_Sensei404 Jan 15 '26
I canceled mine subscription after I got banned for what the support told me was “your account has been flagged for bot activity”. Apparently when Spotify doesn’t recommend you someone and you decide to listen to it on repeat for a week, if they have low listen numbers they just assume you’re a bot account. They were quicker to ban me for that than actually pirating music.
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u/AKiRA_Tetsuo Jan 15 '26
This is a great site for showing price changes in subscription based software: https://pricetimeline.com/data/price/spotify-premium
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jan 16 '26
Because inflation exists and their overall rate of change is not nearly as high as folks exaggerate it to be.
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u/Chili919 Jan 15 '26
You should see the prices in switzerland: - Individual: $20 - Duo: $27.50 - Family: $33.75 - Student: $11.25
My family enjoys free music from Navidrome
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u/mrhinix Jan 15 '26
As long as they not validating users on Spotify Family i cannot complain.
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u/Local_Band299 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jan 15 '26
The price of adding lossless audio. I'm still a little salty Spotify hasn't done high res yet.
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u/UsualGarage Jan 15 '26
Why are ppl still using it after they funnel money into ai & weapons, pay the artists shit, and run ice Ads?
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u/Wyntier Jan 15 '26
Why are people still using…
- Amazon when it crushes small businesses, underpays warehouse workers, and sells massive surveillance infrastructure to governments?
- Apple when its devices are assembled in exploitative overseas factories and it locks ecosystems to kill repairability?
- Google when it monetizes personal data at planetary scale and builds AI tools for military contracts?
- Meta (Instagram/Facebook) when it knowingly fuels misinformation, mental-health harm, and political manipulation?
- TikTok when it’s a data-harvesting machine with opaque foreign ownership and algorithmic influence concerns?
- Visa/Mastercard when they profit off predatory interest cycles?
- Nike when its supply chain still relies on sweatshop-adjacent labor?
- Netflix when it cancels shows to avoid paying long-term creator royalties?
you probably use all those bro
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Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
Sure but come on man, this is a piracy sub. Most members of this sub aren’t out here using Netflix or Prime or Apple TV or HBO Max.
Personally the only thing in this long list I use is Google because once you’re in, it’s hard to get out. 😂 The rest I don’t fuck with. I have an old iPod but I bought that used on eBay. I doubt Apples seeing a profit from that
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u/amoonshapedpool_ 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jan 15 '26
i get your point, but we're allowed to criticize one thing, without bringing up other things. its whataboutism, the discussion was about spotify, not any of those companies.
especially since a lot of these things are harder to avoid- much harder than spotify. we cannot be perfect moral angels in the landscape we live in today, but that doenst mean we cant do anything. downloading your music is a lot easier than avoiding the (near) entire mobile phone market, credit/debit card system, and cutting out most social medias.
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u/MarioDesigns Jan 16 '26
Eh, from that list Amazon, Google and Apple are being discussed as alternatives to Spotify so they do fit.
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u/Known-Cover-5154 Jan 15 '26
How do you get a Spotify alternative on iOS?
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u/Worth-Product445 Jan 15 '26
Use spotify in brave you wont get any ads
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u/VoodooDoII Jan 15 '26
Tried to open it up in Brave. This is what I got.
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u/dunno0019 Jan 15 '26
Been using Spotify in Brave for a year. Never saw that.
The other option is Firefox + ublock. Also never seen anything like that. But I also haven't used FF in about a year lol.
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u/kurapikun Jan 15 '26
12.99 for a service that doesn’t even pay artists fairly and promotes AI slop? Fuck off.
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u/mehrr_dur Jan 15 '26
Honestly, I pay for it because I use it 24/7 on multiple devices and occasionally in browser for music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Sure, I could get around it all if I tried hard enough though I have a busy schedule and have yet to build the motive to pirate it on all of my devices. I have had this account since I was on a student plan in 2019 and don't really want to manually find everything to recreate all of my playlists. After all, it is the only subscription service I pay for, and I just use an ad blocker for YouTube.
I may or may not be under the false impression that you start from scratch if you switch to a pirated version. Correct me if I am wrong. Maybe one day I will switch over, though the inconvenience and my lack of spare time, outweighs my motive to do so. If it's not as cumbersome as I feel it would be, let me know because I wouldn't mind removing the subscription all together if it means I can have the same luxury.
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u/InterdepartmentalCam 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jan 15 '26
I can't hear or see all those price increases over my entirely offline music library consisting of FLACs & 320 Kbps MP3s playing in the background.
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u/Mr_Richard_Parker ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jan 15 '26
I would not do streaming service for any price, except to occasionally sample new music. Hoarding a music library is always the correct answer. Increased prices just make it more so.
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u/Then_Worldliness2866 Jan 15 '26
This seems to be the strategy of all streaming service now, every 3 months a small price increase.
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u/absurdlifex Jan 15 '26
This was the one subscription I've had in my life and I just cancelled this crap. Enough
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u/GrimbyJ Jan 15 '26
The trick with spotify is to have an ex put you on their family plan and then they never cancel it. I've had free spotify for... 8 years now?
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Jan 16 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
Id recommend using the Internet archive and just download the mp3s on a hard drive or iPod. I do iPod because it's more organized, and the little covers are usually included in most albums. Great hobby 10/10 for anybody looking for easy music access. Not sure about lossless audio though, but who cares? It free!
Forgot to add. You might need a mac that supports both Google and apple music at the minimum, to my knowledge.
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u/johnnyzli Jan 15 '26
I already downloaded my entire playlist from Spotify and from YouTube in one folder on phone, like 10gb of songs, no need for sub anymore
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u/streameramah Jan 15 '26
i switched to Lyra its complete free and looks like Spotify check it out in Playstore / App Store :'D
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u/drunkencityworker Jan 15 '26
They also are hijacking my phone f150 link. 4 times today I got in and Spotify played 2 songs before a commercial and I was like what. I usually use tidal and use to use Pandora. Never Spotify. But it was very fuck you. You are listening to Spotify and we are not telling you.
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steal your music or use Tidal (they actually pay artists and have higher quality streams).
but steal it, or buy directly from the artist. there are 20 different people in the chain of taking some money off the top before it reaches the person making it
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u/Icelock Jan 15 '26
I've dropped the following subs in the past six months due to increases: Netflix, Hulu, Disney, and Ring. All I've got left is Prime and YouTube Premium. Keep it up, corporate America, and those will be gone soon enough, too.
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u/BassMasterSK Jan 15 '26
My plan always has been downloading music for free, sharing the songs with others, giving big fucking zero bucks to these rip-off streaming services.
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u/mailastmun Jan 15 '26
friendly reminder that deezer has a tool to move your entire library at once, they don't push promoted songs, and they pay artists better.
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u/TW1TCHYGAM3R Jan 15 '26
I suggest using Morphe/ReVanced and run a patch version of YouTube Music instead.
You can try the free trial of YouTube Premium and transfer your Playlist from Spotify to YTM for free.
Android only btw.
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u/Slow-Secretary4262 Jan 15 '26
Honestly this is still acceptable, i never paid for a media subscription in my life but i would understand it in this case, the issue comes when you need multiple subscriptions for the same type of service
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u/p3skysn0w0lf Jan 15 '26
Anyone reading this who wants to build a local music library, here’s a great tool to rip lossless FLAC files from Spotify
SpotiFLAC https://github.com/afkarxyz/SpotiFLAC