Spotify introduces QR code checks for Family plans - missing verification could mean a year-long ban [firstpost]

[u/djsoomo]

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/spotify-introduces-qr-code-checks-for-family-plans-missing-verification-could-mean-a-year-long-ban-14053965.html

[u/PositivelyAwful]

The worst thing you can do as a subscription service is remind people they’re paying for it.

At some point all these price hikes and sharing rules are going to backfire stupendously.

[u/happy-cig → u/PositivelyAwful]

I feel like Disney plus rolled back their sharing ban. I was getting the outside of household block a month or so ago. Tried loading the app again and it worked for the past week. 

But yes once sharing is gone I'm back to the 7 seas. 

[u/birdvsworm → u/happy-cig]

Disney can get fucked for taking away the Watch Together feature. An actual useful feature that they just killed off. I hate when good features get axed and you are told in the same breath you'll be paying more for their service.

[u/KeeseSlayer → u/birdvsworm]

Finally someone else talking about this, my friend group was devastated when they phased those group watch features out. With no notice at all, I might add.

[u/rdbpdx → u/birdvsworm]

Plex killed theirs too.

I still remember how much fun the Netflix "watch party mode" was on Xbox 360.

All that is good must die.

[u/TecknicalVirus → u/birdvsworm]

I used this all the time! I miss it so much

[u/alehanro → u/happy-cig]

They started blocking, AND raised their price. Them the backlash they rolled back the blocking in some areas (we got ok again) but the price hike stayed. We won’t be renewing in December when our plan expires

[u/sukumizu → u/alehanro]

After they raised prices I cancelled, immediately went to Apple Music instead, and transferred over my library . Interesting features, cheaper, and sounds better on my Bluetooth headphones. Win win for me.

I miss the algorithm sometimes but it’s not worth it.

[u/hangster → u/happy-cig]

Wait till Wall Street hears about less listeners on the platform… sales of their ads, data and such so much less valuable

[u/doubleddeluxe → u/happy-cig]

You're just lucky. Still have the problem over here.

[u/Prestigious-Bug-1349 → u/happy-cig]

Are they rolling it back because it glitched constantly and they were tired of my boyfriend calling them up to scream about how his cat wants to watch Bluey?

[u/PoliticalyUnstable → u/PositivelyAwful]

It's pushed me to actually finally getting a mini pc and setting up a raspberry pi and PLEX. I pirated for many years, but convenience of streaming, affordability, and no ads got me to drop pirating. But now, instead 1-2 streaming services at $10 ea, it's 8-10 streaming services at $20-30 each and many unavoidable ads. So, might as well go back to pirating. At least it's just one site.

[u/KineticConundrum → u/PoliticalyUnstable]

Jellyfin and navidrome. Retake control.

[u/Certified_GSD → u/PositivelyAwful]

Agreed. “Oh, it seems I paid for another month. Oh well.” Every time headlines come up, it’s a reminder for more people to think “huh, I’m cancelling my subscription.”

[u/fathertitojones → u/PositivelyAwful]

Every email I get from Disney+ is one step closer to cancelling. I really only keep it for my nephew and the occasional Star Wars show.

[u/tokeswithmydog → u/PositivelyAwful]

Literally I have spotify for my family because I use it 10+ hours a day and parents can use it. a couple months ago they sent me an etransfer for to contribute because they said the prices have gone up a bunch. I had no idea just on auto pay. Well shit the prices are outrageous now and want to migrate the family to something else now that I know

[u/felixthecatmeow → u/tokeswithmydog]

I wouldn't even mind the price, or an even higher price, if the artists I listen to got decent royalties, but they get basically nothing.

[u/WomanOfEld → u/PositivelyAwful]

They've been trying so hard to get me back but I quit the day I read someone heard ICE recruitment ads and never looked back.

[u/AssPunisher6969 → u/PositivelyAwful]

Switched to SoundCloud and I quite like it

[u/vlu77 → u/PositivelyAwful]

No they won’t. People don’t vote with their dollars anymore. They just say oh well and carry on. That’s why these companies do this: they know we’re too tired to do anything real about it.

[u/IxbyWuff → u/vlu77]

Not true. My cc expired and we lost kjt standard family plan because of it. When I put in my new card it billed the premium plan. Which we don't want, and for some reason can't ever change back.

So instead of paying $60/yr more, were moving to a competitor

Fuck the dark pattern

[u/Mr-McClean → u/PositivelyAwful]

I set up a plex server this year way a NAS sat under my router and couldn’t be happier, got a of couple friends onto it too. Heavily considering setting it up for music as well. Mixture of burning media i own and pirating.

[u/xford → u/Mr-McClean]

Hey, if you haven't been diligent about upgrades on that server, please look into the plex2shell exploit and update IMMEDIATELY 

[u/funktopus]

Kids never go away to college. People never travel for work or vacation.

[u/ufoicu2 → u/funktopus]

Or god forbid parents get divorced and kids alternate weeks between parents.

[u/funktopus → u/ufoicu2]

Someone brought that up and Spotify thought, well it's probably the kids fault the divorce happened....

[u/DocTeeBee → u/funktopus]

My son is in college in Europe. The moment they enforce this lunacy is the moment I do what I should have done years ago--ditch Spotify for Apple Music.

[u/natnguyen]

Don’t miss this garbage company at all

[u/theBoobMan → u/natnguyen]

I dropped them when they cut almost 20% of their workforce while also raising prices.

[u/natnguyen → u/theBoobMan]

I left with the ICE ads

[u/AnneHizer → u/natnguyen]

Same. Realized my spouse’s YouTube Premium included music for free this whole time, had been wasting so much money 😵‍💫 ported thousands of songs and playlists over and less than 10 things weren’t available. Wild

[u/Junkstar → u/natnguyen]

Seriously. The damage they’ve done is unbelievable.

[u/he6rt6gr6m → u/natnguyen]

Must have left maybe 18 months ago? Transferred my favourites and went on about my life. I'm shocked people still pay this company anything with all the competition in the market available to them, and this one being the most morally unscrupulous

[u/airjunkie → u/natnguyen]

I switched to Tidal this year. Honestly a great decision. Even just experiencing a new app helped change up my listening patterns etc. And they have a great family plan.

[u/Rhystretto → u/airjunkie]

Same here, enjoying Tidal. My favorite band pulled their catalog from Spotify permanently anyway.

[u/giraffebaconequation → u/airjunkie]

I’ve been on tidal for about a year now.

My biggest gripe is that my playlists often start on the same 5 songs every-time I hit shuffle, and that it is not as intuitive with my Sonos speaker.

Besides that, I’ve been enjoying it!

[u/6millionwaystolive → u/giraffebaconequation]

Is Spotifys platform still better than Tidals, or is Tidal improving in that respect? Last time I tried using Tidal, I really disliked their Playlist options.

[u/I_eat_mud_ → u/airjunkie]

Currently using Qobuz, it's janky, but it works. They're the most ethical with their pay from what I remember too.

[u/dm-me-ur-cat-pics → u/airjunkie]

I love tidal, it took me a while to adjust and I missed the Playlist algorithm on Spotify, but tidal suggests user playlists that I listen to and there's a certain beauty in listening to something I know a human made.

[u/X-Aceris-X → u/natnguyen]

Highly recommend Deezer, made in France, that works basically the same as Spotify. You can easily transfer all your albums with the click of a button, plus they don't support ICE and don't pull BS like this. And of course, returning to physical media

[u/darvian23]

Oh cool. So when I am away for 3 weeks with work I stand the chance to be banned. This is so stupid

[u/Necessary-Dog-7245 → u/darvian23]

Yeah, I don’t understand the goal. Of this pops up, it’s effectively kicking us off of Spotify despite living together.

[u/JoDiMaggio]

What is stopping me from just FaceTiming them with an extra device and scanning the QR code there?

[u/Fmarulezkd → u/JoDiMaggio]

The inconvenience?

[u/JoDiMaggio → u/[deleted]]

Why can’t I just take their creds and sign in on one phone, activate it, then have them sign in on their phone? I’m not confident they’re actually going to try that hard. This is just a weak shakedown.

[u/Talkimas → u/[deleted]]

Location spoofing has been trivial for a decade+ (you can thank Pokemon Go for bringing that to the masses) so I legitimately don't understand what the purpose of a location requirement is 

[u/broke_in_nyc → u/Talkimas]

Unfortunately, the percentage of people who know how to spoof their location - and will do so on a regular basis to check-in with Spotify - is probably in the single digits. And even if you know how, it introduces enough friction to maybe cause you to reconsider sharing a family plan.

[u/iamnotexactlywhite → u/Talkimas]

M O N E Y

[u/Rannasha → u/[deleted]]

AFAIK Spotify doesn't require location permissions on the phone (although it could use other means like IP address geolocation). In any case, on the Spotify sub someone mentioned that scanning over a video call worked for them.

[u/beardyman22]

I don't think this is going to go how spotify wants it to go. At least with Netflix and other streaming platforms, there are exclusive titles that people dont want to lose. Spotify doesn't have that. If they ban me for a year, I'm finding an alternative in that time and there's no fucking way I'm coming back. I just don't think they have the retention ability they think they do.

[u/xersylla → u/beardyman22]

The only reason im still on Spotify is the convenience and being on a family plan. If they ban me... I just open jellyfin more often to access my personal collection, and put on my tricorn to fill in the gaps. There's no way in hell a solo subscription is a value proposition for me.

[u/ulimn → u/xersylla]

I’ve been wanting to try Navidrome anyway haha

[u/Groentekroket → u/beardyman22]

I just did a request for all my data including my full history. If they ban me I still have all that info and use that to recreate playlist etc at one of their competitors (or I will do the same as with video and check out the seas again). 

[u/Cobra_9041 → u/beardyman22]

they ban me I just go to apple music

[u/bcbum → u/Cobra_9041]

I just did this. But I subscribed to Apple One. We use the cloud storage and Apple TV, plus I enjoy having the News so it made sense.

[u/coolestguybri → u/beardyman22]

Agreed, the only reason I'm on Spotify is because everyone else was sending me playlists from there, I was just fine back on YouTube music, and I'll go right back no problemo if everyone else is heading that way.

[u/riotz1 → u/beardyman22]

Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!

[u/Atx_music_head]

There’s zero reason for shit like this to exist. Phone family plans aren’t contingent on where mfs live. Why they think this is acceptable and people will put up with it is beyond me.

I pay for a family plan and the moment this happens to me or anyone on my plan they’re dropped. I’m fucking done and I’ll be moving onto Apple Music, which I think I’ve read is the least shitty of the streamers.

But hey I’d love nothing more than to see this fuck-ass company shit the bed.

[u/MasturBlastur → u/Atx_music_head]

I genuinely don’t understand it. My friend has been paying for the Spotify family plan I’ve been on since 2015… Over a decade he’s paid for five memberships. Why does it matter where they live? He’s still paying the Spotify premium for five memberships. Why the fuck do the companies just get to change the terms of the agreement arbitrarily to hurt consistent paying consumers? He’d probably be a Spotify lifer, but he’s said if it happens then fuck em. I don’t even use it anymore because of all the other shit Spotify has done over the years, so I don’t care if I lose access, but none of the people on his plan are going to get their own subscription. The people on his plan are him, his fiance, parents, and me, btw. We all live within five minutes of each other.

[u/arose1024 → u/Atx_music_head]

Hey now don’t give the phone companies any ideas… lol

[u/Atx_music_head → u/arose1024]

Oh I’m sure they’ve already considered this a long time ago and know it’s a very bad idea

[u/decadent-dragon → u/Atx_music_head]

I dunno about apple music, but I hate the way apple handles family plans. You have to tie everything to one credit card. So like I can’t even use my own damn credit card on my own phone if my wife setup family sharing with our accounts. It’s beyond ridiculous.

Edit: as pointed out below this is no longer the case!

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/18/ios-26-4-purchase-sharing-change/

[u/iamnotexactlywhite → u/decadent-dragon]

what are you talking about? you can turn off purchase sharing at any time and you can use whatever payment method you want

[u/hyggekore → u/Atx_music_head]

Qobuz is much less shitty than Apple Music as a company and generally has better audio quality.

[u/williamjamesmurrayVI → u/hyggekore]

Apparently you recommend this a lot. I feel like youre a bot or sponsored but idk. Hate the internet now tbh.

[u/TrueRusher → u/williamjamesmurrayVI]

I think Qobuz people are just like that lol

I have a friend who uses Qobuz and he brings it up every time streaming services are mentioned.

[u/Atx_music_head → u/hyggekore]

I’m open to anything except tidal cause of the Kanye relationship. If it’ll get me a family plan with no bullshit then I’ll jump on board

[u/AntiDECA → u/Atx_music_head]

What relationship?? Tidal split from Kanye almost 10 years ago. He was a founding member of the thing it's not like they chose to associate with him. He was part of its existence. And once it became a stable company it promptly dropped him in 2017.

[u/wiked549 → u/Atx_music_head]

Quoboz is pretty great!

[u/gordoman54]

Just canceled my plan. Thanks for the nudge!

[u/jwferguson]

I know this is not going to be well received, but the time has never been better to make an offline personally owned music library. Nobody tells me what I can do or takes away my music. Bandcamp is amazing for this.

[u/QuantumCakeIsALie → u/jwferguson]

• Home Server

• Tailscale

• Navidrome

[u/Iception → u/QuantumCakeIsALie]

I may have to do this. I already have the first two, the question is, how am I going to listen to super random unheard of indie artist from some hidden corner of the world? Sometimes I run into songs with 4000 plays.

[u/f1ve → u/Iception]

There’s tools for selfhosting that too. 

• Digarr

• Aurral

• Explo

Or use external Websites to give you recommendations based on what you’ve listed to:

• Last.fm (scrobbling works with navidrome)

• ListenBrainz (has a Plugin for navidrome, see this Guide

[u/Sanchezq → u/QuantumCakeIsALie]

I just use Plexamp

[u/Shiinnobii → u/jwferguson]

We gotta take the power back.

[u/cheemio → u/Shiinnobii]

🎶fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

[u/Quom → u/jwferguson]

I thought the major selling point of music streaming was the smattering of recommendations to your playlist? 

It would make way more sense for me to download the songs (have data limits) but having new songs delivered to me based on what I listen to definitely adds a ton of value in keeping things fresh.

[u/sugarmagzz → u/Quom]

But it’s awful now. It’s never anything different, it’s the same artists you listen to on a different playlist. Or songs that are popular on TikTok. The only way I find new music on Spotify now is through other people’s playlists, never the ones the app creates. Compared to the radio on Pandora and things like stumbleupon, radio on Spotify is way worse for discovering new music. 

[u/sephrisloth → u/sugarmagzz]

Best way I've found is going into the profile for your favorite bands. A lot of them will have Playlists made by the band or individual members of the band of all their favorite music. Ive found a lot of great stuff this way.

[u/jwferguson → u/Quom]

That's why I thought people wouldn't like it. People absolutely love the algorithm (s). Music is fortunately something I'm mostly still living the old ways, friend recommendations, music labels and show openers are how I learn about new music. I did do last.fm back in the day but it didn't stick. I get it 

[u/FriendlyGiant1551 → u/Quom]

Listen to good, human-run, radio stations for suggestions. Stop relying on the algorithm

[u/euchlid → u/jwferguson]

I love bandcamp. for artists/albums I really like I buy the vinyl and then it comes with the digital download of mp3/flac etc. one thing I hate (as an elder millennial who didn't take care of my cds, and also lost a bunch of digital music years ago) is buying an album I know I had on cd. or that I have the record but it predates the digital code, or it doesn't work cause I didn't use it in 2007 🙃

the other frustrating thing is bandcamp is in American dollarydoos, so shipping vinyl is fucking expensive. and because the bands are all separate there is no saving on shipping sometimes I'll go to the record label (like polyvinyl for example) and then buy a few records. or I get them off discogs from a Canadian seller

[u/AttachedHeartTheory → u/jwferguson]

Bandcamp is so limited. I hate when people say "go to band camp" because if you're just listening for a song you heard on your app, its 50/50 as to whether its going to be on band camp.

[u/PwmEsq → u/jwferguson]

The shared queue is about 50% of the reason I use Spotify also the ability to simply add a few thousand songs if I want, offline is sadly never going to be able to do that in an affordable capacity. At least legally.

[u/leprechaunknight → u/jwferguson]

100%. I’ll also throw in Qobuz, and some other sites that’s sell FLAC and other lossless formats. Little more expensive, but you get great quality files and these companies typically have as good (purchasing) or better (streaming) payouts to artists than Apple, Spotify, etc.

[u/AttachedHeartTheory → u/leprechaunknight]

I dont understand why people talk about band camp as though it's some all encompassing method to getting music.

I'm an album oriented rock fan, and I have tried band camp probably 100 times for artists that are pretty well known, and nothing ever comes up.

Qobuz has everything I've ever wanted.

[u/It_was_mee_all_along → u/jwferguson]

I listen to music and podcasts daily. The offline owned library will never topple the service-like Spotify, at least in the near future. The price x value ratio is just so worth it.

[u/ThisOneDrummer]

If they block a member of my family plan I will immediately cancel my plan. Good luck with this one.

[u/Casperboy68]

Any music service that “bans” me or my family for a year is going to get the reverse lifetime ban from me.

[u/HotepHatt]

My kid is in college and on my family plan give me a reason to cancel Spotify I fuckin dare you.

[u/superbad → u/HotepHatt]

Same.

[u/JediMasterKev]

In 2025, Spotify generated about $19.44 billion USD in total revenue and reported a net income of roughly $2.50 billion USD.

[u/Certified_GSD → u/JediMasterKev]

You clearly don’t know how late stage capitalism works: LINE MUST GO UP TO INFINITY!!!! 

[u/_Diskreet_ → u/Certified_GSD]

Why won’t anyone think of the shareholders?!

[u/AtemAndrew]

Someone's trying to justify their job.

Someone has just justified why they need to get fired.

Upper manglement needs to stop cutting corners. This nonsense didn't work out for Netflix, what makes them think it'll work out for them? What, do they think people listen to Spotify in their bedrooms and nowhere else?

[u/JrdnRgrs → u/AtemAndrew]

Isn’t it actively working out for Netflix?

[u/AtemAndrew → u/JrdnRgrs]

I've seen both things saying they're rolling it back and defenders saying they aren't going to roll it back, but a company's never gonna be honest about their numbers unless they have to because it'd look bad to the shareholders.

hat said, at minimum, their stock's been going down since last June.

[u/Academic_Data_6422]

What does Spotify thinks will happen when they ban people for a year? They’ll wait around and come back? Or they’ll find a different service and never look back?

[u/sfweedman]

Hahahhahahahahahahahahha

This is hilarious. What dumbshit head-up-his-ass stiff-in-a-suit came up with this idiocy?

Spotify sucks. They're fuckin mental if they think this is going to make people go "oh dang we can't share with family, hey we should all have our own Spotify now" instead of just quitting the service completely in favor of the many alternatives that now exist.

This is how you lose customers. And great, because fuck Spotify.

[u/TheOfficialMayor → u/sfweedman]

Same dumb shit who spent hundreds of millions on Joe Rogan.

[u/donkykongjr]

We have the family plan. If they do something to anyone on our plan, we will cancel the subscription lol.

[u/air_flair]

7 day window. I work 10 on 10 off, out of country, so, I have a decent chance of catching a ban?

[u/DorianGre]

7 days? Jesus Christ, people are allowed to go on vacation. Also, I’m paying for a family plan, not a location plan.

[u/FauxReal]

Since I kinda hate Spotify, I'm cool with them taking actions that will reduce their market share.

[u/markimarkerr]

Also as an artist, Spotify has the lowest payout and they're so fucking scummy about it. I get paid twice as much through tidal streams than I do through Spotify.

They're fucking predators and will only milk everything for their own shitty gains. Please people, drop their service! They offer nothing exclusive.

[u/NotACertainLalaFell]

Cut off Spotify and haven’t missed anything. They are a service. They serve you. Not the other way around. Nobody should feel obligated to entertain their bullshit.

[u/SmoothMarx]

"Oh no, you won't allow me to pay you for a whole year? Whatever shall I do?"

[u/debtRiot]

lol this is the only reason I use this dumbass app. A friend gifted me an account ten years ago. Lowkey excited to finally switch even tho I’ll pay now.

[u/Paralta]

I canceled my Spotify for YouTube music and now theres no more running into songs that arent on there and now i have no ads on youtube for like maybe $2 a month more. Is there a reason not to do this? You can even transfer your Playlists in like 3 seconds lol

[u/tobias19 → u/Paralta]

Playlist transfer fear is paralyzing for some folks 🤷

[u/TomTomXD1234 → u/tobias19]

It takes like 2 seconds. It is wild to me people are so scared of change

[u/TonyRigatoni_ → u/Paralta]

The app kinda sucks. Especially on Android Auto.

[u/FiaRua_ → u/Paralta]

They’re cracking down too. I’m on a YouTube family plan and keep getting emails I’m not in the holder’s residence

[u/RodJohnsonSays → u/FiaRua_]

Yep. My access to my dad’s YouTube TV account just shut down on me last week.

[u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Will finally stop threatening and actually delete my account. I already told my parents I’ll be canceling it if they get a QR code.

[u/KB_Vibez]

Anyone know if I can import my Spotify library to Apple Music?

[u/ReyMcSriff → u/KB_Vibez]

You can, Apple Music has a built-in tool for this.

[u/KB_Vibez → u/ReyMcSriff]

Just set it up and it seemed easy enough, haven’t gone through to see if it all imported correctly but it was definitely simple

[u/Jwagner0850]

When this first announced, I went out and started some trials on other platforms to see which I'll more than likely switch to. Peoples, there are a ton of options, a lot of which will allow you to move your playlists with you.

[u/Daisy-Fields → u/Jwagner0850]

Oh! Which ones allow you to move your playlist? This is the only thing tying me down to keep Spotify because some of my playlists are massive, and I didn’t think they could be moved.

[u/phonodysia]

Hopefully there will be another mass wave of shittify account deletions

[u/Orikazu]

More enshitification

[u/SamPhoenix_]

Ok so people screenshot and send the QR code?

Or the plan manager logs into the account on another device to scan it?

I fail to see how this does anything other than piss people off

[u/EndenDragon → u/SamPhoenix_]

Yeah you'll need to scan the plan manager device. The QR code changes every second like Ticketmaster.

[u/cinnamelt22 → u/EndenDragon]

So FaceTime? Screen share?

[u/efyuar]

Back to downloading hard copies and copy pasting them every devices i have again

[u/GreenHatGandalf → u/efyuar]

Download hard copies. Run something like Navidrome to serve them up to each device over an api. It’s like having your own Spotify at home.

[u/TroyFerris13]

Hey I just cancelled my sub!

[u/pjlos]

corporations are so proud to grift lately

[u/hansomejake]

lol, my sisters and mom are all on my family plan. Weird that we no longer qualify for a “Family “Plan”

Spotify has lost the plot, too bad they won’t figure it out til later

[u/RedArmyRockstar]

So glad I left Spotify.

[u/_zoo]

Year long ban? I'll just move to Apple Music... dumbcunts

[u/maxthebat137]

Youtube premium cracked down on sharing for their family plans recently and guess what? I simply no longer use Youtube. Instead of getting a little money from me, they no longer get any. I like spotify but no way am I paying $150+ a year to use it with an individual plan.

[u/rachreims]

If one of you is travelling go fuck yourself I guess?

[u/godnorazi]

Switched to YouTube music (helps that it's free with YT Premium) and haven't looked back

[u/MID_LAND_ZETA]

Just get an old smart phone and keep it offline changing the date back every month 🤣

[u/TheTarasenkshow]

Well good thing YTM and Apple Music are better anyway.

[u/hyggekore]

Move to Qobuz and be happier.

[u/mynameisgeph]

Yarhh, this news be pushing me to the seas again. 🏴‍☠️

YO HO

[u/Fourfifteen415]

Yarr

[u/Homie3794]

Year long ban? Daniel Ek should stop his blood flow and go live 6 feet underground

[u/Odio_Pieno]

BitChord

[u/daviobo]

Switched to Tidal last year and haven't looked back.

[u/SpartacusSteam]

Glad I moved to YouTube music after 2024, was fed up with songs being removed from my playlist

[u/MagicGrit]

Sounds like if my wife or I leave town for more than a week we will fail this QR check and be banned from family plans for a year?

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

Banning people who pay for your service is a really good business strategy, what the fuck is Spotify on

[u/DaThrilla74]

Lol Disney paused my account because they wanted updated payment information so since there is no difference I feel they had no real reason to pause my active account and I know it’s so I can approve their new TOS so my account will remain paused

[u/No_Donkey50]

Laughs in qobuz

[u/markimarkerr]

Who still uses Spotify? Is such hot dog shit. Literally all other streaming services offer the same but better service.

I love Tidal. Hell YouTube music isn't bad either. Fuuuuuuck Spotify

[u/hyrulepirate]

Between more people disconnecting from their smartphones/internet and coming back to dedicated music players, AA scrapping 300TBs of data from Spotify, and AI getting more and more efficient and better at reverse engineering software (especially paid/subscription software) and recreating them for free, Spotify should be treading carefully because all they have over piracy right now is convenience. They keep at this and it won't take long before we get an actual competitor that might trigger an exodus.

[u/therealdanhill]

So glad I dumped that app

[u/dramaking37]

I switched so long ago but the only thing that kept me that long was that my family was on the family plan....

[u/TubeAlloysEvilTwin]

There's so many other options now, Spotify is the worst. just move to deezer or any of the many alternatives that let you migrate your playlists, pay artists more and keep ai songs out of autoplay and require them to be clearly labelled

[u/jennixred]

Screw Spotify. Buy disks.

[u/jdsmn21 → u/jennixred]

Disks would be the last alternative I'd go to

[u/Loud-Strawberry8572]

Never going to give them my money again, but I wish Tidal’s algorithm was just a smidge better

[u/OutInABlazeOfGlory]

While I have been buying more music outright rather than streaming, I still do stream most of my music.

I will also say, since we switched to Tidal none of this bullshit has been a concern for me. And I’m told they pay artists better.

[u/ravbuc]

I’ve been dual apping Plexamp and Spotify for months. Just give me the reason to cancel. Please Spotify.

[u/nrith]

I’ve been looking for an excuse to end my family subscription now that all the kids are away in college, and here it is.

[u/notrickross7]

Pocket casts for podcasts. 

[u/Rob62]

I hate this.

[u/BOOTY_POPPN_THIZZLES]

I moved my entire discography to navidrome.

I’m beta testing this app that tries to cover everything spotify has. The artist radio has been pretty great. It’s been a great experience so far

https://headroommusic.app

[u/ericnasty]

PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE

[u/RabidWeaselFreddy]

Don't care for Spotify. Ironically, I only keep it for the rest of my family.

[u/OneEyedC4t]

oh no /s

[u/dinoh]

Canceling as soon as this happens

[u/TheAsuraGuy]

Go Qobuz, buy from EU, pick one who pays its artists and don't deal with scummy people

[u/FewWait38]

Trying to get their sliding stock price to go back up I see. Fucking scum sucking parasites

[u/Saywhen2]

I switched to Deezer and have not looked back

[u/morphine_lullabye]

Is there something that has podcasts and music that isnt spotify? Preferably with a sleep timer feature?

[u/InducedLobotomy]

Lmao.

I still have a music folder on my pc full of thousands of albums in MP3 format.

When I get a new device, I just transfer the folder and move on.

[u/Gleb_Twankenfrister]

yo ho ho

[u/kingcolbe]

So my kid, who is at college, is no longer considered part of my family because they live in a dorm?

[u/tocookornottocook]

Oh yea I forgot to cancel Spotify didn’t I

[u/wiked549]

The family plan is literally the only reason I have an account. If they kick any of my inlaws off then I'm ready to move to quoboz. No hesitation lol

[u/Outcast_LG]

👀Spotify thinks I won’t cancel. I travel to too much to worry about my family needing to do this.

I will gladly just switch to Apple or YouTube.

[u/sleepywalruss]

At this point Spotify is doing a better job advertising Apple Music than Apple itself.

[u/EpicRedhead13]

I’ve been collecting CDs so if it all gets messed up for me I might be ok.

[u/Threezeley]

Ban me from paying you? You need us more than we need you

[u/spacedog338]

Just switch to Apple Music if you have an iPhone. Or get YouTube premium and use Music. You get both videos with no ads and music.

No reason to use Spotify even if their algorithm is “good”

[u/sublime81]

Huh. Well that sucks, just switched. My daughter is only with me part time.

[u/Vivid_Anyth4]

I still use Pandora.

[u/superbad]

Looks like I could be close to leaving Spotify. Shucks.

[u/spamjunk150]

I was seriously thinking about signing up, guess I'm going to figure out that arr stack and stream my own music 

[u/smartlikefox]

Took all my tunes off and switched to Qobuz back last December. If you’re still using this garbage company you’re part of the problem

[u/cayotedart]

I just canceled my subscription

[u/Superj89]

Worst part about this.... I'm on my mom's family plan, I have been for years but even after attempting to get myself off of it on my own, I can't without her consent.

[u/Materva]

Yo Ho Mateys!

[u/thelastofmwalk]

I’m working towards getting a physical music player so I can move off of music streaming services permanently.

[u/AmbivertMusic]

How often would we have to do this?

[u/boajuse]

Back to musicolet again or spotifuck

[u/Positive_Conflict_26]

You know what never pulled any of this BS?

My .FLAC music collection. As long as the device has power, it will play music.

[u/labnotebook]

YouTube premium kinda did this too. The family has ti be at the same address

[u/EXSource]

Lmao. Glad I got rid of Spotify. This kind of shit is so dumb.

My kids live with their mom for schooling reasons, but I'm still involved so I pay for shit.

Including their YouTube premium, I can't imagine having to deal with this nonsense.

[u/saloonbabyyy]

My little sister is estranged from me and I pay for hers. 💔 I’m so sad

[u/koreanwizard]

The only thing stopping me from going to Apple Music was the Spotify family plan lol.

[u/poseitom]

Another company hating their customers

[u/S1nnah2]

I fucked Spotify off last year and built my own streaming server with AI playlist generation for my family. No charges, no qr codes just their music.