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Audio book listening hours

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Audio book listening hours

Does anyone else think the audio book listening hours should be free??? Or at least sold in bundles? Iโ€™m tired of buying 10 hour top ups for 15$. I would much rather prefer to pay an additional fee for unlimited listening hours. Honestly anything would be better than paying or having to wait until the next month. 

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i would love unlimited!!

Yes. I believe that we already pay for the service, so they shouldn't charge extra and limit what is included in the premium tier. We can't listen to music and books, or more than one book, at the same time. Some of the very titles that I had saved, before I found out that premium users would get free audiobooks, were not included after the fact. That seems deliberate. It's like they were trying to get me to buy them. The premium subscription should include everything, since it is the top tier subscription. 15 hours is very limiting, especially for someone that might go pretty quickly through books. I didn't even know that you could buy more hours. That's a rip off. That's almost the cost of the whole service, per month, with 5 hours less of audiobook listening. Spotify should, at the least, offer an option to add to the premium subscription, for unlimited access, like you mentioned, for only a few(actual definition of the word) dollars more.

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That's not, at all, what the question is about. Did you read the actual body of the post? Check it out.

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Iโ€™ve just had the same problem. I use reading as a way to help my mental health and with dyslexia having the audiobook is so helpful. With the large variety of books they offer the 15hours doesnโ€™t seem enough. Currently reading a trilogy and hours have run out already! Really not happy as I have used Spotify for years and find it better than other services out there. Was really happy hen they introduced audiobooks as other services are expensive and have tried to use different sites for audiobook but nothing compares. Really wish they would change this 

Yeah I think it is an actual pathetic scam that I only get 15 listening hours especially since I have premium and most books are way longer than 15 hours.

No I want unlimited listening hours. Duh.

I'm still trying to figure out why ALL the audiobooks are not available to listen to using the 15 hrs allowed with my Premium membership. So far all but 1 of the books I specifically searched was locked! I don't get it. Shouldn't have to buy it on Spotify ๐Ÿค”

I can agree, yes, listening hours for Audiobooks should most definitely be free. Otherwise, it would seem reasonable to spend $5-$10 on unlimited listening. I also feel like Spotify should make it free to Premium Users to listen to 15+ hours (or unlimited) of Audiobooks ๐Ÿ’ฏ. I totally get your point. I would absolutely love it ๐Ÿคฉ if they updated the platform to have that. 

 

However, Spotify has a low chance of doing that, they normally take the smaller issues and fix those. But I like that you put your idea ๐Ÿ’ก out there! If you want the Staff to look at your idea faster, then I would submit this idea to them.

 

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On the homepage (where you select where and what to chat about), there's an option called, "Ideas" (With a light-bulb icon) and if you click that, then you could submit it through there. I won't take the idea from you, I'll let you do it on your own.

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