I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • Loom In Essence@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Spotify is garbage. You pay them to basically pirate unlimited music (they pay table scraps). They have no values or integrity, but they do have a greedy business model.

    I buy albums off bandcamp instead. Or from the artist’s site directly.

        • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Wow, you are right! I was confused about iTunes, because it seems to require an app, but it is DRM-free and so is Amazon Music. That’s great! So I guess only Spotify has DRM.

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            1 year ago

            All the streaming services use DRM, it’s just download stores that are DRM-free. Which makes sense, when you buy an album, you should own it.

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              1 year ago

              I see, that makes sense. But I also think that every content that you have paid to access should be DRM-free, so even in a streaming service.

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      It’s personally a catch 22 for me.

      I listen to an absolutely absurd amounts of different artists. A large portion of them simply don’t have albums available for purchase and if they did… I would actually go broke buying all the stuff I listen to.

      Every single day I type in a Combo of 2 random letters and numbers into spotify and listen to the first artist I don’t recognize.

      It really sucks that Spotify doesn’t pay the artists anything reasonable but I haven’t found an alternative that allows me to consume as much different music as I currently do.

      This isn’t even including the podcasts and audio books into the equation.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly it’s a shame that most good music pirating sites have gone to the shitter, literally the only way to actually pirate and own music I could find via searching vigorously was through youtube to MP3 converters.

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      1 year ago

      Greedy business model seems slightly unfair tbh. Spotify struggles to remain profitable and they’ve only raised their prices by like $1 in a decade

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        1 year ago

        Maybe they shouldn’t’ve thrown so much money into the pivot to podcasts, then thrown a bunch of money at that meathead idiot.

      • Loom In Essence@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just because they’re incompetent doesn’t mean they’re not greedy.

        Also, executives can still be cleaning up even as the company struggles to profit.

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          1 year ago

          Executives being greedy isn’t the same as a greedy business model

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            1 year ago

            This makes no sense. Greedy execs are the ones who would implement a greedy business model to pursue their greed.

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              What part of the executive compensation package are you taking specific issue with exactly? From what I could see, they’re largely paid in stock and the CEO hasn’t taken a bonus since COVID.

              Or are you just talking executives in general and not looking at what Spotify does specifically?

              • Loom In Essence@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                So they’re incompetent on top of greedy. They’re selling access to everybody’s music and paying peanuts.

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        1 year ago

        yeah, it’s not spotify’s fault that splitting $10/month between all the music you listen to doesn’t pay the artists very much.

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          1 year ago

          Yea, companies that pay more typically either charge more (Tidal) or have the advantage of a massive profitable company backing them (Apple Music)