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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spotify doesn't allow access to the info for free because it makes it too easy to leave. None of the streaming services do. There are services with access to the info used for switching to other services that you can pay for.

[–] zzz@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify doesn't allow access to the info for free because it makes it too easy to leave. None of the streaming services do. There are services with access to the info used for switching to other services that you can pay for.

Another EU win. I have literally never seen a paid service for that being advertised. All basic data export should be able to be done for free, and in an interchangeable format between the different services too!