Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature
A Spotify user found themselves disappointed after discovering that the audio streamer's audiobook only comes with 15 hours.
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
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The word "slams"
I'm not reading it because I've probably wiped better journalism off my arse this morning
"a single user says..."
The daily dot is a fucking joke.
Regardless, 15 hours audio is low AF
15 hours for what period of time? The article mentions they'd refill in two days...
slams
Destroys even!
Pro tip: get audiobooks from your library…along with paper books, ebooks, games, movies, etc.
The real story's in the comments. This helped my single-mother-friend stay sane in the early/poorest years. Everyone needs to know how their library has changed since they last borrowed a book in 1982. Thanks for posting this -- I forgot too!
So, is this the type of SLAM you'd typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?
I think it's more like a door slam without a door.
I'm voting poetry
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas
Spotify is worse than piracy. It's a robber baron.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through backing up my 'Liked' songs to MP3 files, at which point I'm ending my sub.
It's a bummer because I actually really like Spotify's algorithm and it suggests great music for my tastes, but, I can have that for free without feeding their stupid insatiable greed.
“the 15 hours customers get free with premium equates to two audiobooks” Is the average audiobook really that short!
For eragon it would takes months to finish.
The hobbit is 10 hours.
Think most of the books I’ve listened to have been over that length, but I don’t use Spotify. Self hosting for the win. No time limits in prologue
They probably have a bunch of 1 hour 'books' that mess with the average as shorter is cheaper to help pad out their numbers.
Looking at my personal library, the median length audiobook is The Last Wish at a tad over 10 hours. So it'd be equal to 1.5 books going by that, not the worst marketing exaggeration I've ever seen.
You can opt out of audiobooks and save the extra cost they added the other month. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024/05/spotify-saving-basic-plan-audiobooks/?source=CRM-MSETIP-84b484ca1c047788624
Not in the US unfortunately, which is bullshit
Dang :/ I was looking for the option
Thanks! I didn't know about this. I never use audiobooks. Just changed my family plan. £2 is £2!
oooh, ty
I hate the word “slams”