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A twist absolutely everyone saw coming
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These days price rises seem to unfortunately be as common as April showers aand the latest service with a suspected price hike in the works is Spotify.
The music streaming service has been changing things up a lot in recent years. First it went all in on podcasts and then audiobooks and now has even added music videos (and educational videos). This constant pivoting has been an attempt to stop the service from putting up prices and fix profitability issues. But it looks like that battle has been lost and prices will once again jump up.
(Image credit: TIDAL)
(Image credit: TIDAL)
Time to switch to Tidal?
If true, the loss of audiobooks wouldn’t really change how I use Spotify but yet another price rise would be hard to swallow. Especially as one of Spotify’s main competitors Tidal just last month simplified its subscriptions and announcedit would lower its prices.
The new ‘Tidal Plan’ as it is known will drop on April 10th and become the sole subscription on offer (there will be no free plan). But what’s so great is this new plan will be $11 a month and come with almost all of the benefits of its soon-to-be-defunct HiFi Plus subscription (currently £19.99/$19.99). That means for a price equivalent to Spotify’s current fee you’ll also get lossless audio, something the green giant doesn’t offer.
It’s a compelling case and if Spotify does raise prices, there might be a few new subscribers to enjoy the new deal.
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