JamesO Posted 18 April 2011 Share Posted 18 April 2011 Spotify’s aim from the very beginning was to make music on-demand available to all. To give you the power to listen to, discover, share and manage your music the way you want to - simpler, faster, better - while making sure the artists whose music we all love continue to see the benefits as we grow. Making Spotify available to millions across Europe has seen the service become incredibly popular. People are listening to more music and from a wider range of artists than ever before, and are giving up on piracy, which is exactly what we hoped would happen. So it’s vital that we continue offering an on-demand free service to you and millions more like you, but to make that possible we have to put some limits in place going forward. Here’s how the changes will work: New Spotify users will be able to enjoy our unrivalled free service as it is today for the first 6 months. As of May 1st, any user who signed up to the free service on or before November 1st 2010 will be able to play each track for free up to a total of 5 times. Users who signed up after the beginning of November will see these changes applied 6 months after the time they set up their Spotify account. Additionally, total listening time for free users will be limited to 10 hours per month after the first 6 months. That’s equivalent to around 200 tracks or 20 albums. The changes we’re having to make will mainly affect heavier Spotify Free and Open users, as most of you use Spotify to discover music – on average over 50 new tracks per month, even after a year. Plus, the average user won’t reach the limit on plays for 7 out of 10 tracks, after a year of using Spotify. For those of you using Spotify to find new tracks to enjoy and share with friends, these changes shouldn’t get in the way of you doing that. Rest assured that we’ll continue to bring you the biggest and most diverse music catalogue available. For anyone who thinks they might reach these limits, we hope you’ll consider checking out our Unlimited and Premium services, neither of which will be affected, plus we have a 7-day free trial for Spotify Premium that we’d love you to try. Throughout May, we’ll also have a pretty nice 30-day free trial for Spotify Premium – more details on that in the next few days. Above all, this means we can continue making Spotify available to all in the long-term. We’ll be bringing out some awesome new features as well as significant improvements over the coming months, which will make the Spotify experience even better. Annoyed by this as i use spotify loads when doing work and finding new music. Wondered what your thoughts are to this? Anyone know any other programs like spotify that i can use because i know that the limit they give you will be used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted 18 April 2011 Share Posted 18 April 2011 It's a brilliant service, and premium seems worth it if you're going to use it daily. £10 a month for unlimited music is nothing really. Personally I prefer to have the tracks available via iPod, so it's not particularly worthwhile for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 19 April 2011 Share Posted 19 April 2011 Unlimited is only a fiver. And is.. unlimited. Unless they're changing their prices, too, you only need to pay £10 if you want Spotify Mobile or frequently lose your internet connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 19 April 2011 Share Posted 19 April 2011 I use Spotify to "try before I buy" so it doesn't really affect me, I'm unlikely to play anything more than 5 times. If I liked it that much I'd probably own it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Smuts Posted 5 March 2012 Share Posted 5 March 2012 Anyone else having problems at the moment? Mine is an utter shambles recently. Doesn't play 2 songs consecutively, keeps stopping and keeps whatever song I was playing previously in the queue after I close it. It keeps telling me it's not the latest version as well even after I download the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 5 March 2012 Share Posted 5 March 2012 Anyone else having problems at the moment? Mine is an utter shambles recently. Doesn't play 2 songs consecutively, keeps stopping and keeps whatever song I was playing previously in the queue after I close it. It keeps telling me it's not the latest version as well even after I download the latest version. Do you pay? I have Unlimited and I've had no problems at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 5 March 2012 Share Posted 5 March 2012 Anyone else having problems at the moment? Mine is an utter shambles recently. Doesn't play 2 songs consecutively, keeps stopping and keeps whatever song I was playing previously in the queue after I close it. It keeps telling me it's not the latest version as well even after I download the latest version. Do you pay? I have Unlimited and I've had no problems at all. I have Unlimited and occasionally get a lot of loading problems (internet connection is fine). Sometimes takes ages to load some artists' profiles but quick in others. And I do the 'restart to upgrade' thing whenever it asks, and on a couple of occasions now that hasn't worked, meaning I've had to abort the upgrade and restart Spotify and try it all over again. That's more of a hindrance though, as opposed to a problem which is annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavrentis Posted 5 March 2012 Share Posted 5 March 2012 Premium and it's working lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose2010 Posted 23 May 2012 Share Posted 23 May 2012 Currently got an offer on to students that the premium account is £5 a month rather than £10 you just need an NUS card. I don't think you can beat Spotify to be honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 23 May 2012 Share Posted 23 May 2012 Yes you can, you can own lots of good music that Spotify doesn't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Phil Posted 23 May 2012 Share Posted 23 May 2012 Yes you can, you can own lots of good music that Spotify doesn't have. Excatly this, I know a few people who you would think don't realise that music exists outside of Spotify. It is good to try before you buy as you said, but that's about as far as it goes for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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