Spotify: the new free version allows listening on demand

Spotify. The Swedish streaming listening platform offers a large music library, for free or by subscribing to a subscription. All the details.

Spotify: premium, free, on the web. Manual

Spotify. The Swedish streaming listening platform offers a large music library, for free or by subscribing to a subscription. All the details.

• Spotify Premium
• Spotify free
• Spotify on the web
• Music leader

In a few years, Spotify has become one of the most popular tools to listen to music. Founded in 2008, the Swedish steaming listening platform has been totaling more than 345 million subscribers around the world since 2019, whether they have a paid subscription or free use. In April 2018, the western leader in online music even entered the stock market.

Spotify can be used on the web, in the form of a site, but the catalog of 50 million titles is also available on an application, downloadable from Windows, Mac, Android, IOS and even on PlayStation and Xbox. To use the streaming listening platform, you don’t necessarily have to have a subscription: in free version, you will have to deal with advertising cuts. Discover below the detail of the Spotify formulas and subscriptions:

Spotify Premium

The paid version of Spotify allows you to listen to as much music as you want, without being interrupted by advertising. The premium subscription also allows you to listen and zap between any titles on your device, with or without internet connection. There are several subscriptions:

• PRETIUM Personal : the personal personal subscription is made for a single user. If the price differs depending on the country, in France the price of the subscription is 9.99 euros per month (with a free month);
• Premium duo : This subscription allows you to listen to Spotify on two devices, for example for couples living under the same roof. Offer price: 12.99 euros per month (with a free month);
• Premium family : a formula that allows you to use up to six premium accounts, “for family members who live under the same roof”, specifies Spotify. The subscription makes it possible to block music with explicit content (signified by an “E”) and to download Spotify Kids, a separate application reserved for children. Offer price: 15.99 euros per month (with a free month);
• Student spotify : For students (under cover of proof), Spotify provides a special rate at 4.99 euros per month (with a free month).

How to listen to Spotify for free ?

In addition to premium subscriptions, Spotify allows its users to have access to its free catalog, without subscribing to an offer. Called Spotify Free, this way of using the platform, however, has less functionalities (as listening to a particular title) and listening is punctuated by advertising cuts.

To listen to Spotify for free, it is also possible to benefit from a month’s testing month before subscribing to a subscription, which can be interrupted at any time (including at the end of the trial month).

How to use Spotify on the web ?

To take advantage of the immense online catalog of Spotify, it is not necessarily necessary to download an application. The streaming listening platform is accessible on the web, computer or smartphone, on this link. It will then be enough to connect you. For this free registration, no need to enter your bank details.

Spotify, music leader

Officially launched in 2008, the Spotify streaming listening platform has established itself in a few years on the world market: with 345 million subscribers and more than 50 million titles in its catalog, the Swedish giant has even returned to the stock market In 2018. 155 million Spotify users would have a premium subscription in 2021. Which makes the streaming service the number 1 of its market, far ahead of Apple Music, second. The apple platform has not communicated any figures since June 2019, when it totaled 60 million users.

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Spotify: the new free version allows listening on demand

Until now, listening to on -demand titles has been reserved for paying subscribers. The new free version of Spotify will offer 15 personalized reading lists, with the possibility of choosing the Listening Order.

Marc Zaffagni with Cnet.com

Posted on 04/25/2018 at 07:51 | Updated on 04/25/2018

As expected, Spotify has just announced during its April 24 press conference a redesign of the free mobile version of its streaming listening service, with the main novelty the arrival of listening on demand, until Here reserved for paid subscribers.

Currently, people using the free version of Spotify can only listen to music in random reading. But that will change with the introduction of the new version in the next two weeks. It will offer 15 reading lists renewed each day, which represents the equivalent of 40 hours of music or 750 titles. In addition, it will be possible to choose the order of reading and to place a song that you do not like.

The free version of Spotify, which serves as a gateway to the paying subscription, is a huge competitive advantage compared to Apple Music. By offering more flexibility and control to the free version, Spotify hopes to recruit new users likely to go to the paid version.

Mobile data consumption reduced by 75%

No evolution has been made to Spotify Premium at the moment. While the free offer has muscle, the subscription remains the only way to avoid advertising cuts and have total control over its music. Asked to know why people should pay when the free offer has enriched, Gustav Soderstrom, research and development director at Spotify, replied that the service would not recruit new members by degrading its free version. On the other hand, no announcement fell on a supposed connected pregnant that was talked about a few weeks ago.

The new mobile application also evolves in terms of data consumption, with a cache and video quality management system to reduce the consumption of mobile data by 75%. Let us also note the arrival of an assistant to the creation of playlists who automatically suggests songs to add to his selection.

Spotify has become the most powerful streaming music service in the world, causing a upheaval of music consumption habits. After decades to buy vinyls, cassettes, CD then digital files, we are migrating to a subscription model offering unlimited access. With Spotify as an engine, this movement has invigorated the music industry after 15 years of atrophy.

With 71 million paid subscribers, Spotify is the world n ° 1 in front of Apple Music (40 million subscribers) Pandora, Google Play Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Tidal, Deezer, Iheart and others. At the beginning of the month, Spotify entered the New York Stock Exchange. Its action is currently worth $ 154.

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Marc Zaffagni with Cnet.com published on 04/25/2018 at 07:51 | Updated on 04/25/2018