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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by HDThoreaun on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:05AM (#38393484)
Ive got the family subscription to Spotify. The four of us each listen to a solid 100,000 minutes of music a year for $15 a month. 400,000 minutes of entertainment for $180 is easily the best value entertainment I’ve ever seen. That’s 37 hours per dollar.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by wodenokoto on Thursday November 23, 2023 @12:43PM (#38395312)
If we go with iTunes prices that’s an album and a half a month. Were you really expanding you home collection that much?

I too prefer renting this way, but I don’t think the value proposition is unbelievably good compared to owning.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by HDThoreaun on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:52PM (#38396120)
I never bought music, just pirated it before switching to Spotify. But I listen to hundreds of new albums a year so yea o guess I was expanding my collection much faster than an album and a half a month.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by klelatti on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:00PM (#38396205)
> Were you really expanding you home collection that much?

An album and a half a month?

There are lots of people who would buy dozens of CDs a month. I know many.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by jjav on Friday November 24, 2023 @12:55AM (#38400993)
> 400,000 minutes of entertainment for $180 is easily the best value entertainment I’ve ever seen

Does nobody in the group ever repeat a song?

If yes, then that 400K is double counting (or 50x counting or however many time a song is repeated).

Depending on how much replay, at some point it becomes cheaper to just buy those CDs instead of paying for them over and over every month.

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