You can add up to four extra accounts for £4.99 each, but that means you’ll pay £29.95 a month for a family of five compared to Apple Music and Google Play’s £14.99 for six. Where Spotify falls down is its family plan, which is more expensive than rivals. Pay £9.99 a month, and you get full access (including offline), no ads, and a higher-quality streams option. Spotify’s free tier has audio advertising, but is missing offline listening and – on mobile – the ability to pick tracks on-demand, although you can play an artist’s catalogue on shuffle mode. It has good support for devices beyond the desktop and mobile: it’s available on Sony’s PlayStation 4, Sonos hi-fis and through Google’s Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV, while its mobile app plays nicely with Apple TV too. A recently introduced Concerts feed shows you upcoming, nearby gigs by artists you’ve listened to, which is useful. Creating and sharing your own playlists is easy too.Īnother strength is the system for following musicians’ profiles and getting notifications when they have new music out. Spotify has better social features than its rivals, with the ability to add friends and see their playlists and listening, as well as a built-in messaging system to ping music back and forth. It has added audio and video podcasts as well as YouTube-style short-form video shows recently, although the jury is out on whether people want to watch Spotify as well as listen to it. On mobile, Spotify’s Now feature suggests playlists based on your habits and the current time of day, while its Running mode will play you tracks that match your jogging pace. Follow a few, and you’ll have a regular supply of new tunes.Įvery Spotify user gets their own Discover Weekly playlist too, updated every Monday with 30 new songs that its recommendation algorithms think you’ll like, based on your own tastes and those of people like you. Playlists are key to that: Spotify has a wide range that are updated with new songs every week, but it also has a deep catalogue of playlists created by outsiders: labels, media, musicians and fans. Many of the new features added in the last year or two have focused on helping you discover music. It’s perhaps no surprise that Spotify is the most well-rounded streaming service: it launched in 2008 and has been steadily improving since then.
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