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Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan is going up by a whopping $3, increasing from $17 to $20 monthly. The only subscribers getting a break are students, who will continue to pay $6 monthly.

Spotify announced the price hikes less than a year after its previous one last July. Before that, Spotify hadn't raised its fees since launching a decade and a half ago. I guess it was too optimistic to hope the next increase would also take that long, especially with Spotify's continued focus (and money dump) on audiobooks.

Premium subscribers should receive an email from Spotify in the next month detailing the price hike and providing a link to cancel their plan if they would prefer to do so. Users currently on a trial period for Spotify will get one month at $11 after it ends before being moved up to a $12 monthly fee.

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[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 5 months ago

More money More crap nobody wants like audio books Still haven’t seen cd quality streaming yet

I used to happy with Spotify before the enshitificatuon happened…

[-] Schal330@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

What annoys me is you still have to pay for audio books.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

I have used Spotify's 15 free hours a month for shorter light novels, but beyond that, buying the rights to listen to a book, or buying more listening hours is very much not worth it through them.

[-] FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

Tidal is a good alternative.

Cheaper now, and you get access to special editions/higher quality audio included in base price now.

Added bonus they pay artists more then Spotify aswell.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I got Tidal for a month to try it out because I had gotten some XM4s and wanted to check out the 360 Reality Audio tracks, and I was disappointed to find just how few of them there actually are. 😕

Edit: I see not that they did away with that ultra premium tier and folded those 360 Reality Audio tracks into the regular plans...they really did make it cheaper. Looks like I'm switching back to Tidal.

[-] FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah I originally found the same thing.

Went back to Spotify as they had more tracks I liked. Once I heard tidal was getting rid of the premium plan I switched back.

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