Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴‍☠️

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Headline contains -

    Opinion of random member of the public

    The word “slams”

    I’m not reading it because I’ve probably wiped better journalism off my arse this morning

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          Ten pictures of Feddit users reacting to clickbait headlines that will make you say “no, these are all trains. No, I’m complaining as such, I like trains, I just… I thought… No, the headline said something about… reactions, yeah, and ins- actually, hang on, how did you get in here?”

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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      There’s no need of “slam” – or “eye,” “mull,” “Solons,” usw – in an era where you’re not writing a 1-42-4.

      (1 column, 42pt, four lines)

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    Pro tip: get audiobooks from your library…along with paper books, ebooks, games, movies, etc.

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      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!

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    So, is this the type of SLAM you’d typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?

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    Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas

    Spotify is worse than piracy. It’s a robber baron.

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      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.

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    “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

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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          My ass probably could appreciate real performance if I was into audiobooks overall, I just like books as books. I’m not exactly happy about all content being replaced with AI slop. However I don’t think spotify cares, if something is cheaper they will go for it, just like other corpos.

          Oh well I think they will be losing as well, people don’t even really need the audio book providers anymore, since they could just do AI ebooks themselves if they just have the text ebook.