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Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Spotify on Monday announced some changes to its family plan subscriptions, allowing them to use Spotify Premium for $14.99 per month and get six different Spotify accounts and profiles. This is the exact same deal as the one you can get on Apple Music today. Spotify is just making sure you're not going to move your entire family over to Apple Music for pricing reasons. The company introduced family plans back in 2014. At the time, it was one of the first subscription services with family plans. You could get 50 percent off extra Spotify accounts. So it would cost you $14.99 for two accounts, $19.99 for three accounts, $19.99 for four accounts, etc. For big families with at least three accounts, the new Spotify family plan is cheaper. For singles and couples, it's the same price.
You pay a monthly fee for technically not pirating music (while the artists only get fractions of a cent), as long as you're paying and the country you're in is blessed by licensing agreements.
If you don't pay, you can't cache music for offline use and it inserts ads (but still can listen to it).
Is this actually news, or is it just a fucking ad?
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You're complaining about this? Seriously? If you have alternatives to this, by all means, employ them; it's great that you choose to do so (something we all fully support), but the vast majority of people like having easy options to use, even if they're subscription based.
As a fellow dad, this just saved me $10/month. I like being not tied to one platform only, or having a platform be so obviously be second fiddle -- "Apple Music runs on Android". We also avoid the hot abortion that is iTunes.
Wife: has Android phone, a Kindle, a laptop for work and we have a shared desktop. Spotify has all her playlists on all those platforms.
Me: I listen using the Spotify web interface at work, sync albums to the phone for driving so I don't burn through data plan. Whenever the corporate Linux distro catches up to something modern I can go back to the Linux native player.
Kid 1, the tween: She has a Kindle and an iPod. Spotify works on both. Whatever tweens are listening to.
Kid 2, the elementary schooler: She has a Beatles fixation. I can't complain, but she listens on her Kindle.
In other important News for Nerds, CostCo has a great deal on dairy products and Jiffy Lube just mailed me a coupon for $15 off my next oil change (so watch your mailbox, everyone!).
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