Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by rch on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:52AM (#19310171)

I've enjoyed my Google music subscription for years as well, but I think it's pretty shady that lately they keep trying to bundle in a free YouTube subscription.

I still buy movies, and I have a fair bit of purchased music from before the subscription, so I'll be more than annoyed if I end up with my media library sitting in YouTube Red if they try to converge the products. Spotify would be high on a short list of alternatives if that happens.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:53PM (#19312470)

> I've enjoyed my Google music subscription for years as well, but I think it's pretty shady that lately they keep trying to bundle in a free YouTube subscription

Replacing GPM with YTMusic, unless the latter is updated to support everything, including personal music import and export, that the former does would be shady.

Giving me free YT Premium along with the GPM All Access I was already paying for at no additional cost is not, however, shady.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by jimmydddd on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:23AM (#19310670)

@rch -- What's the shady bundling? I haven't been paying attention. I think I'm in the same position as you -- early Google music adopter, previously uploaded my legacy mp3 library to Google music, and get ad free Y-tube.

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Re:Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a ... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:59AM (#19310200)

I think if it does happen I may not bother anymore, it'll just save me $14 a month (I pay for my wife to have it too, apparently I can add 2 other family members or something at no extra cost).

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