Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by edoceo on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:24PM (#47430291)

More thing for Spotify is that their users are, more or less, locked in. That stickyness is what allows companies to try this dumb shit; management will hardly feel the impact of their bad choices - cause they are standing on many years of foundations.

It's like when Homer Simpson was carried up the mountain by Sherpas and thought he owned the achievement.

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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by Esophagus4 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:34PM (#47430396)

I switched last year and discovered I wasn’t as locked in as I thought.

SongShift moves your library from one app to another super easily. In 20 minutes my whole collection, playlists and all, moved from Spotify to Apple. And it was free.

I encourage everyone who is dreading moving to a better app to try it… it’s pretty easy now.

I’m tempted to try Tidal myself because Apple Music’s recommendations aren’t that great.

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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by lowenbjer on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:30PM (#47430347)

I get that it looks bad to have vibe coding bugs creeping into your codebase for such a big company, but isn't it common sense that owning your misstakes taking accountability for them generates respect?

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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by surgical_fire on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:35PM (#47430402)

How so?

Spotify can be switched for YT Music, or Apple Music, or Deezer without any issues.

You can also just buy albums on Qobuz instead.

You can, ultimately, resort to one of the best things the internet offered since its inception - piracy.

If anything, Spotify is one of the easiest services to replace. And I say this as a paying customer.

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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by lowenbjer on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @06:08PM (#47432011)

I tried tidal for the Lossless (dont care about the 24bit, i care about no EQ and compression added to music) but i went back to spotify for their recommendation model. Its a moat for me.

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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by distances on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:10PM (#47432541)

I don't think lossless gives you anything other than, well, lossless compression. EQ or dynamic range compression don't really have anything to do with it.

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