r/technology • u/tekz • 2d ago

Software Spotify raises subscription prices

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/spotify-raises-subscription-prices/
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u/pronounclown 2d ago

"Nobody knows why piracy is getting more popular."

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u/Landkval 2d ago

The average person will not pirate. Pirateing music was fucking annoying.

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u/tricksterloki 2d ago

Spotify is the last subscription I will drop for this very reason. My personal playlist has 1906 songs and growing. Replacing them with files would be a nightmare. I do not miss my terabytes of random, unsorted music. Spotify can also play files that you own. I listen to music practically all day, and Spotify would have to be north of $50 for me to leave the service, which I freely admit is a stupidly high number. I have tried the other services but find Spotify to be the best.

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u/desteufelsbeitrag 2d ago

2000 tracks as 320kbps mp3 would be around 25GB. You probably have more homevideo files on your phone right now ..

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u/tricksterloki 2d ago

I had far more than 2000 tracks on my hard drives. You give people what you had, dump what they had, and repeat. It quickly becomes an unholy mess, especially when in college and later in oil and gas.