What’s the deal? Are people just going to continue to pay a never-ending rising cost of streaming? Surely this model can’t keep up, and I highly doubt people are listening to essentially the diverse catalog of music for that price. I’m willing to bet most people listen to the equivalent of a couple CDs in a month.

Are you guys just gonna keep paying for YouTube music as the price tops to $30 a month? Seems like every week these clowns are raising their prices.

  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Iv had a single subscription for like a decade. YouTube red or premium or what the fuck ever it’s called.

    Cost me 7.99 I stream my music from YouTube.

    The moment YouTube stops grandfathering me in is the moment I go right back to just pirating everything. They have threatened to raise the praise for grandfathered plans a few times and never went though with it. They have threatened to add ads, or change features and never went though with it.

    8 dollars is entirely an acceptable price for functionally unlimited music and TV.

    I use the service so I pay for the service. It’s convenient, functional and there are no ads.

    Works on my PC, phone and while I’m in the car with no fiddling.

    If I had to pick a service to use to today I would just go with Bandcamp or pirate the fuck out of everything.

    Seriously what Gabe said decades ago was turn then and now. Piracy is a service problem. A affordable, fair and customer friendly service will be worth paying for. Companies just keep making shit worse then what the value prop is.

    And frankly I would spend like 40 bucks a month on CDs, so 8 bucks is perfectly acceptable. And I don’t personally see any fucking reason to own a copy of my music. That just cost storage space.

    I keep a simple txt file with a list of all the songs and albums I enjoy the most so if I need to I can easily just go get a copy of them when and if I need to. And not waste space on meaningless files that I have on demand access too.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      And I don’t personally see any fucking reason to own a copy of my music.

      And reading that was when I stopped moving the cursor to the upvote arrow. ;-)

      But that’s fine, so long as when you own nothing, you’re happy. ;-) /s

      I see owning a copy of arts as performing part of a duty to the future, increasing the resilience against the book burners and history re-writers.