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Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by relyks »

drdaeman wrote: post #9
restlessdesign wrote: post #2

Spotify has always included ads on podcasts because podcasts had already normalized that before Spotify took interest in them. As a result, they pivoted the value prop of Premium from “no ads” to “no ads on your _music_”.

I believe they dabbled in audiobooks recently... just wonder if those have ads as well?

The ones you pay for don't have ads

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by waschl »

Maybe it’s a location thing? Until very recently I used the free version of Spotify and never experienced any ads in podcasts (which surprised me considering the amount of ads when listening to music). Since I have premium I didn’t listen to podcasts a lot, so I can’t tell if it behaves differently

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Post by tsimionescu »

darkpatterns wrote: post #5

Literally just cancelled mine today a couple of hours before reading this. It's great for music discovery but when already paying for YouTube premium which includes YouTube Music, which although has a much worse UX ultimately has the same content. Even if I wasn't getting music with the YouTube subscription when I added up the 50 odd tracks I regularly listen to on playlists and divided that by the cost of a yearly s…

Personally, I find YT Music's UX much better than Spotify's. Especially when I'm listening to something and browsing for something to add as the next track.

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by scary-size »

darkpatterns wrote: post #5

Literally just cancelled mine today a couple of hours before reading this. It's great for music discovery but when already paying for YouTube premium which includes YouTube Music, which although has a much worse UX ultimately has the same content. Even if I wasn't getting music with the YouTube subscription when I added up the 50 odd tracks I regularly listen to on playlists and divided that by the cost of a yearly s…

Totally fair. To many people discovery is the feature that the like most about Spotify. If that doesn’t interest you, you’re well off on YouTube.

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Post by vsnf »

I'd like to take this opportunity to lament Spotify's UX. It's my music streaming app of choice, but I'm hoping against hope that Tidal et all can eventually provide meaningful competition, because their UI, which was never exactly great to begin with, has done nothing but stagnate for 10 years. And in some cases it has been actively worsened, like when they removed Hold-To-Preview. I have a bunch of local mp3s on my computer of songs that never made their way to the streaming services for whatever reason from wayyyyyy back in the day and I use Foobar2000 to manage and play them. The experience is just night and day. I don't want Spotify to become Foobar, but it's criminal how much room there is to improve the music listening, library managing, and general app experience that Spotify just refuses to take.

tl;dr, I wish Spotify liked their app as much as I like their app.

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