• David From Space@orbiting.observer
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      1 year ago

      Sorry, best we can do is make a new tier at the same price that only plays music, while we jack up the price of the new Premium Plan to account for 'rising market costs'!

      • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
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        To be fair spotify bleads money, because the big music labels are sucking most of the money out of spotify.

        Podcasts and stuff are their way of trying to get out of that uncomfortable situation, because they own the rights of the stuff produced via their platform.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps as likely as YouTube Premium separating music access from no ads on videos… I wish. It keeps me locked in.

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        1 year ago

        They had that YouTube Premium Lite tier in a few regions, which was basically that. But Google just killed it.

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      It's understandable why they are doing this. Apparently the company has never ever made any profits, and since the main 3 record labels are demanding 70% of the revenue from Spotify, they can't do anything to change that revenue split to 50-50 instead as an example.

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        The GitHub seems to only be for a downloader app that distributes unverified APKs that don't currently do anything. Removing this thread as a precaution - particularly given recent news of malicious modded APKs.