Exclusive: Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall
techcrunch.com
Spotify didn't offer any more detail about why it's now paywalling lyrics, but clearly, it's a bid to push more people to its paid tier.
  • HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Honestly, what does this change? For paid users nothing, and the free version was always unusable with you not being able to individually select songs.

    • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      As a long time Pandora user… I never want to select individual songs. I want stations, vibes, playlists, etc.

      • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Spotify has all that. Not “stations” so much.

        Type in “sleep mood” and you get playlists with days worth of various calming music.

        Workout? What kind do you want? Hard rock, deep bass rap, whatever.

        Sounds like I’m cheerleading for Spotify but it really is pretty good these days.

        Tons of podcasts, mood collections, etc. I haven’t looked up a song or artist they didn’t have.

        I am a paid user.

        • HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          6 months ago

          (Their point was that Spotify’s free version is sufficient because they only want the things mentioned)