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Spotify reportedly plans up to 39% price increase in big AI push
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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I would recommend Qobuz to anyone who wants almost the same ease of use, but with higher audio quality.
Yep. Also switched to Qobuz. I may leave at some point in the future, but I'll least I'll be able to take the music I bought with me!
What the hell is qobuz?
Edit:
Decided to do a trial, then they asked for a credit card. Meh. I can't stand this business practice.
I think in the case of Qobuz, asking for your credit card details actually isn’t some dirty tactic to get you to subscribe accidentally. They just have to avoid people creating new trial accounts month after month, because it would become very expensive for them if they didn’t. They don’t have an ad-supported plan by design and pay out $0.018-0.019 per stream (Spotify supposedly pays about $0.003-0.005). So if you listen to 500 songs during your trial, they lose about $9 in payouts alone.
I think, in this case, it’s actually legitimate to use your credit card details in order to verify that you’re actually a new potential customer.
Well it's just another thing for me to remember and I don't want to deal with it. 🤷
It's really good though. I stopped using Spotify about a year ago and switched to qobuz.
It's not perfect (no podcasts and their generated "daily" mixes are meh), but the quality is top notch, and you can also buy DRM free music through them.
Personally, lack of podcasts is a good thing. Trying to run both podcasts and music through Spotify sucked. It's way better to just have a dedicated RSS podcast player like AntennaPod.
I like the idea of access to both streaming and DRM free downloads. That being said, I can't find any players that support their streaming outside of Google Play.
I'm probably going to end up switching to Tidal since it's supported by SoundCrowd and just downloading DRM free music from Qobuz since few of the artists I listen to are on Bandcamp
I listed out some of their permissions bullshit in another comment
Sell me on it more. I look at the lack of podcasts as good because I hate blending them together. It messes up your stats, resumes a podcast when you'd rather listen to music etc. I don't want to clear my awesome queue I might have going on just to listen to a podcast with no way back to that queue.
I switched to them because they didn't have podcasts. Podcasts are a fundamentally different experience and have no place in my music streaming app. At this point, I just host a navidrome server with about 600 albums, but I still use Qobuz to buy music that isn't on bandcamp (they offer flac downloads for bought music).