Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature
Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature
A Spotify user found themselves disappointed after discovering that the audio streamer's audiobook only comes with 15 hours.
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
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The word "slams"
I'm not reading it because I've probably wiped better journalism off my arse this morning
"a single user says..."
The daily dot is a fucking joke.
Regardless, 15 hours audio is low AF
15 hours for what period of time? The article mentions they'd refill in two days...
slams
Destroys even!
Pro tip: get audiobooks from your library…along with paper books, ebooks, games, movies, etc.
The real story's in the comments. This helped my single-mother-friend stay sane in the early/poorest years. Everyone needs to know how their library has changed since they last borrowed a book in 1982. Thanks for posting this -- I forgot too!
So, is this the type of SLAM you'd typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?
I think it's more like a door slam without a door.
I'm voting poetry
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas
Spotify is worse than piracy. It's a robber baron.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through backing up my 'Liked' songs to MP3 files, at which point I'm ending my sub.
It's a bummer because I actually really like Spotify's algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.
“the 15 hours customers get free with premium equates to two audiobooks” Is the average audiobook really that short!
For eragon it would takes months to finish.
The hobbit is 10 hours.
Think most of the books I’ve listened to have been over that length, but I don’t use Spotify. Self hosting for the win. No time limits in prologue
They probably have a bunch of 1 hour 'books' that mess with the average as shorter is cheaper to help pad out their numbers.
Looking at my personal library, the median length audiobook is The Last Wish at a tad over 10 hours. So it'd be equal to 1.5 books going by that, not the worst marketing exaggeration I've ever seen.
You can opt out of audiobooks and save the extra cost they added the other month. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024/05/spotify-saving-basic-plan-audiobooks/?source=CRM-MSETIP-84b484ca1c047788624
Not in the US unfortunately, which is bullshit
Dang :/ I was looking for the option
Thanks! I didn't know about this. I never use audiobooks. Just changed my family plan. £2 is £2!
oooh, ty
Audiobooks are expensive to produce.
Spotify is awful when it comes to content creators, complaining as an end user is crazy though.
If you read the article, the main point was that Spotify doesn't inform about the limits clearly. Not the pricing.
Even now Spotify site says: "Spotify Premium: Listen without limits". Clearly there is a limit, but the limits are only mentioned after the first subscription button if you scroll far enough.
If I could afford a lawyer I would use for lying
Audio books are no longer expensive to produce. I bet my ass most except for the biggest titles will be AI generated in very short time. Whether people like it or not.
Well unlike your ass, I appreciate the nuance of a good performance. But i know what you mean.
GPU time, while cheaper than a voice actor, is still a bit spendy though. And you then you also have the various copyright/licensing "issues" associated with AI content, companies may be a bit hesitant to go all in on producing books like that. Makes more sense for someone like Amazon/Audible and less sense for someone like spotify.
Besides, most audio books exist already so that really only applies to newer titles.
I hate the word “slams”