[ethbr0]

The difference should be that users pay Spotify for a subscription.

Raise the prices if they need to, but don't try and have a subscription + "whatever ad bucks we can make" model.

[FormerBandmate]

Their advertising business is the only reason they succeeded and Rhapsody, Zune Pass, and Napster/PressPlay didn’t. It’s ingrained in the company

[maxfurman]

I thought it was because the major labels are also the biggest shareholders, and therefore incentivized not to hamstring the company?

[nerdponx]

Their business model has always been the latter.

[ipaddr]

Vote with your wallet.

[dieselgate]

Guess for a lot of us spotify users that'd mean stop paying for their service? am pretty close to doing so after almost a decade of paying for spotify.

[digging]

yes. there are good alternatives. switching can be easy or painful depending on if you're willing to use opaque 3rd-party services to transfer your playlists (also, when I exported manually, some songs just disappeared from my "Liked"). but I highly recommend taking the plunge.

[dieselgate]

Interesting, what services do you recommend? I’m not familiar with them. I’d like to just get the song/artist names from playlists rather than all the playlists themselves.

Get to hang out with a friend who’s a former Spotify employee tomorrow so this will be a likely topic of discussion

[ethbr0]

What are some good alternatives? More visibility!