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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.
I suppose it had to happen, but im not prepared to lash out £8 per month for a full licence.
Is it not £5 or £10 if you want it on your phone? I've got the full bells and whistles version. Well worth it, IMO
I suppose it had to happen, but im not prepared to lash out £8 per month for a full licence.
This isn't a total shoot down or anything, but if you use Spotify I presume you listen to a lot of music? £10 a month is essentially one CD album a month. For unlimited music. And if you have an iPhone (or Android I think) then unlimited mobile music as well. It really isn't much money for what is a great service.
if you use Spotify I presume you listen to a lot of music?
Only sporadically for me. Definitely not £10 per month's worth.
I have been meaning to go Premium, I pay for Sky TV so £10 a month for hassle-free unlimited music seems pretty good.
The Russell Brand "Arthur" ads are a very good way of driving people onto the ad-free version.
I'll probably start paying.
Shandy = Blockify mutes all the ads.
I tend to use it at work to listen to stuff I've got etc.
This is basically an admission that their original ad revenue model didn't work.
When half the ads seem to be for Spotify themselves, it was clear they never had the impact they thought they would.
They probably needed to get the volume of ads up significantly to do proper targetted ads. I was always waiting for the day I seemed to get a ad suited to my listening tastes, but it never happened in 2 solid year's listening!
I think £10 per month is far too high for something that relies on a full-time data connection.
I wont be paying. I'll put up with the restrictions for now and see how it goes.
I'll be using Last FM a lot more again now I think.
I suppose it had to happen, but im not prepared to lash out £8 per month for a full licence.
Depends on how muh you listen to, but 8 quid for unlimited listening sounds like a bargain.
premium service is good EXCEPT that there are still many artists and labels missing from Spotify, which makes their "unlimited" service some what limited. Hopefully, the new restrictions will enable them to fill some of the gaps in their catalogue before people start leaving.
lastfm is good but a very different service
but im not prepared to lash out £8 per month for a full licence.
A lot of people will though I bet. Smart move by them.
We have been on 'free' spotify for about 18 months i suppose: the frequency of ads is definitely less now, and as mentioned earlier, three quarters of them are now for spotify anyway. The ads for music do not seem to be targeted at all either...
Never seem to listen to Spotify now, i've moved onto : http://beta.mflow.com/
Always free and no adverts.....
oh no. it's the end of the world. 🙄
I think £10 per month is far too high for something that relies on a full-time data connection.
I wont be paying. I'll put up with the restrictions for now and see how it goes.I'll be using Last FM a lot more again now I think.
£10 option allows you to save tracks for offline listening on your computer and phone. I don't drive around streaming everything on my phone. It would cost a fortune (in data) and the quality is only 60kbps compared to 320 when you've downloaded tracks in offline mode.
Last FM is now £3 a month
grooveshark anyone? free, no ads (but perhaps not the content).
suits me though.
