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Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by amjnsx »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #23

No other company do I hate and love so much. I love their discovery algorithms and find new music through them so often. I look forward to my new Discover Weekly every Monday. But in every other way they drive me crazy. The UI is terrible and basic but I've learned to live with it. What I absolutely can't stand is inserting podcasts and audio books into the app with no option to opt-out. I get that they want to put t…

My biggest pet peeve with the Spotify iOS app is the offline mode - it’s total garbage.

- Every time you open the app you get a “turn on wifi to enable downloads” alert. This may or may not be an iOS thing - I try to navigate to an artist or album I’ve downloaded and I just see loading spinners until it finally times out and shows me my offline content - Music I’ve previously downloaded just…not available - i.e. It needs to be redownloaded. Well thanks a lot Spotify - leaves me shit out of luck when I want to listen to something you’ve deemed as “expired”. My most recent one being Taylor Swift’s Midnights this evening, an album that came out and I downloaded on Friday.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by res0nat0r »

JadoJodo wrote: post #2

Does anyone else take issue with Spotify branching out into other arenas (e.g., Podcasts, TV, Audiobooks, etc.)? I'm honestly kinda tired of all of these services trying to gobble up any slightly related industry. I subscribe to Spotify to listen to music, not podcasts. My podcasts arrive using a different app with the backing of the RSS standard, not Spotify's internal standard. I don't want to get a subscription co…

I want them to absorb the whole ecosystem. Podcast apps suck and I am absolutely never using itunes. I'm glad I can get podcasts I like in Spotify and it will track across my phone / pc my progress. I don't listen to audiobooks but would buy them from Spotify if I did so I don't have to download and figure out some kind of Amazon Audible app instead.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by firefoxkekw »

nerdjon wrote: post #99
firloop wrote: post #8

As a consumer, I’ve actually come to prefer in app purchases. I love when a subscription is available on IAP because for something like a newspaper, I know that I can cancel it with a couple of taps instead of having to fill out some long retention form or call someone.

This is 100% how I feel. Too many of these companies have dark patterns for canceling your subscription (or hoping you forget you have one) that I actively stay away from most services that I can't just use an IAP with. This is largely thanks to all of this being consolidated in a single UI where with just a couple clicks (without ever needing to open the app and dealing with their marketing or 20 questions) I can ca…

This so much, specially when I think of my parents and older love ones, 30% is nothing compared to being in the wild west of dark patterns.

Reputation have a price, Apple may not be perfect but I can trust that they aren't going to deceive my parents or make their life more difficult when trying to use technology.

At least personally, I would much rather pay a bit more than opening the door to cheaper prices at cost of Apple losing one of their big advantages, trustworthiness.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by slipperlobster »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #192

My reaction when I read: "Audiobooks on Spotify" - Finally! Why has it taken so long to have subscription access to all audiobooks??? And then I read that you actually have to buy individual audiobooks - WTF???!!! I can stream ,000,000s of music, movies and series with a subscription - why not audiobooks??? (and don't mention Audible - for $23/month I can stream two books = BFD)

Your local library system _may_ offer eBooks through an app login. That'd be worth a check.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by tevon »

nerdjon wrote: post #100
fleddr wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fine if you prefer that, but this is no reason for Apple to enforce it as the only allowed option.

If apple opens the floodgates allowing these purchases outside of this option, why would a company give apple's option to consumers? Apple enforcing it is the only reason as a consumer I don't have to deal with park patterns for many of the apps I use. Which is a good thing for consumers

Apple already does enforce having their option alongside other external options: Sign in with Apple is requires if you also offer sign in with google etc.

I think this would be a great solution. I also prefer using apple for purchases, but they should at least be allowed to point the user to another purchase option.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by tevon »

nerdjon wrote: post #100
fleddr wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fine if you prefer that, but this is no reason for Apple to enforce it as the only allowed option.

If apple opens the floodgates allowing these purchases outside of this option, why would a company give apple's option to consumers? Apple enforcing it is the only reason as a consumer I don't have to deal with park patterns for many of the apps I use. Which is a good thing for consumers

I'm even OK with apple preventing taking payment through the app, however disallowing companies from describing how to do so is too much.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by user_named »

nerdjon wrote: post #99
firloop wrote: post #8

As a consumer, I’ve actually come to prefer in app purchases. I love when a subscription is available on IAP because for something like a newspaper, I know that I can cancel it with a couple of taps instead of having to fill out some long retention form or call someone.

This is 100% how I feel. Too many of these companies have dark patterns for canceling your subscription (or hoping you forget you have one) that I actively stay away from most services that I can't just use an IAP with. This is largely thanks to all of this being consolidated in a single UI where with just a couple clicks (without ever needing to open the app and dealing with their marketing or 20 questions) I can ca…

It could be 10% instead of 30% though.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by SLWW »

I bought a book from them, one I've been meaning to listen to for a long time.

for $25 it wasn't a bad deal for hours of really good content, read by the author. Best version i've seen.

I appreciate not having a subscription model attached to a few books I might listen to

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by ohbleek »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #192

My reaction when I read: "Audiobooks on Spotify" - Finally! Why has it taken so long to have subscription access to all audiobooks??? And then I read that you actually have to buy individual audiobooks - WTF???!!! I can stream ,000,000s of music, movies and series with a subscription - why not audiobooks??? (and don't mention Audible - for $23/month I can stream two books = BFD)

This is why I use Scribd. I can’t access every single book I want but there are enough available that I’ve only run into that problem a handful of times, and I just found something else because it’s really a great selection.

Re: Audiobooks on Spotify

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Post by roody15 »

Wait you have to “buy” the audio book in addition to the monthly fee? hmmm no thanks.

Just my take but I don’t want click to purchase stuff coming to Spotify. In my opinion this a fail.

I already purchase a family plan for 15$ a month .. last thing I need is tap and click add on purchases.

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