I don't know what they are smoking to think that they're worth more than a Netflix subscription. Video > audio. If they put the family plan price up I'll cancel it and use Prime Music or something.
I get what you mean, but I wouldn't accept that as a universal truth. I spend considerably more time listening to music on Spotify than I do watching video on Netflix. The content I consume on Netflix may have cost more to produce, but the content I consume on Spotify gives me subjectively more value.
Video services compete on exclusive content, so they can make subjective value considerations around how valuable certain content is to certain groups.
There's also an almost infinite supply of good music--past and present--out there. There just isn't a lot of incentive for most audio streaming services to invest in exclusive content--the odd podcast notwithstanding.
Hard disagree, video streaming platforms are a gigantic hot mess where movies and shows constantly appear and expire, you never know where to look, if something is available or not anymore or for how long.
Spotify and friends are constantly growing libraries, where everything is available, at all time, always (modulo the expected lawyer temper tantrums here and there). It boggles my mind how people can feel so entitled that they wouldn't accept paying a bit more for sixty million tracks available everywhere every time all the time.
Spotify is a shit company, with garbage mobile and desktop clients, but the service is absolutely insanely cheap for what it is, I personally would gladly pay double and still be happy about it.
They are worth way more than a stupid Netflix subscription in my book. Vastly.
I might just start subscription hopping for a while. Binge on a bunch of HBO things. Cancel that, move on to Prime, pay for a few months of Netflix, Apple TV, and so on. The issue is that none of them have enough quality content to keep me there permanently and they all have some content that is at least tempting. There are a couple of shows per year on each that I really enjoy and then just a lot of filler content that I don't really care as much about. I actually watch more free content on Youtube at this point then Netflix.
There are a few alternatives to Spotify. I'd say Prime Music is probably the least polished of them. AWS for all their success as a retailer just never figured out how to do decent UX. Prime video is pretty bad for example.
I've heard good things about Tidal and I kind of like their focus on artist revenue. But for now, I'm pretty happy with Spotify and the switching is not really worth the trouble to me. In terms of cost most of these things are pretty close together.
Aren't you worried about how this will look on your resume?
>> Aren't you worried about how this will look on your resume? @halgir
You jest, but this type of censorship is coming to a business near you in the very-near future.
Spotify removed password sharing first.
Don't worry, I am sure Netflix will put up their prices again.
https://www.apple.com/apple-one/
Family is $22.95 a month, with 5 other people:
- Apple Music
- Apple TV+
- Apple Arcade
- iCloud+ (with photos and video sharing, email/cal hosting with family domain name, hide my email, private browsing)
They're only superficially the same, in fact they're wildly different. Each will be a "worse experience" if your preferred experience is the other.
Agreed, but keep in mind this is “access to virtually all available audio” vs “access to one particular channel/library of video”
This is why they're now offering video and podcasts. They want to be valued the same way Netflix and YouTube are, and they can't do it with an audio-only offering.