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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier. With lossless audio. And then shortly after some previously premium tier features to go plus. Then ads appear on the premium, I mean basic tier (priced at the old premium price).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Black Mirror's Common People episode would like a word

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, they were quite literally compiling all the worst behaviours of modern subscription services and applying it to the medical field. I guess the sad thing is that it could really happen one day.

    I would say each of the things that they applied has happened on a service somewhere before (just perhaps not all on a single one). It's fiction uncomfortably close to reality.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I absolutely agree. it was a sort of slap in the face, personally. I've been aware of the increasingly awful subscription model take-over of course, but seeing it presented that way and realizing how not-so-far-off that reality may be, finally put some fire behind it for me.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier

    That was what they were planning to do, a new premium tier that would have lots of extras but then Apple released lossless audio as part of the standard base tier so Spotify gave up on it

    To me I don't really get it, I've had flac audio files in the past and I haven't really found much difference in audio quality above 192k

    Just to confirm there is no new tier for this

    From today (September 10), Spotify Lossless will be rolling out to Premium users across over 50 regions including the US, UK and Australia. Spotify says the rollout is starting now and will continue though October. You’ll receive a notification alerting you when Lossless is available, but that’s not all.

    Surprisingly, Spotify Lossless is free for Premium subscribers – a huge sigh of relief given that previous rumors suggested that lossless audio would come in the form of a paid add-on called ‘Music Pro’.

    https://www.techradar.com/audio/spotify/audiophiles-rejoice-spotify-lossless-is-finally-here-and-its-a-huge-step-for-the-streaming-service

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