Spotify removes five song cap for unlimited free music
Are you still resisting paid-for Spotify’s charms? With all the music you could want anywhere for a tenner a month, it’s hard to. But now that Spotify is allowing subscribers to listen to songs more than five times without signing up for a paid subscription, sticking with the free version looks pretty appealing.
Of course the free version won’t let you play music on your mobile or tablet. But with other services like RaRa, Deezer and Pandora eating into Spotify's market share, it's a clever move on their part.
Whether it'll be enough for Spotify to fend off the growing threat of Apple, which is rumoured to be launching its own streaming music service, is another matter entirely.
[via Telegraph]
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eyresaffair
8 weeks ago
I suspect it's just me but i don't 'get' the concept of spotify. OK so I'm hitting my 40's and i remember buying an Album in woolies for under a fiver, if I'm honest i brought the same album again on tape for my walkman for the Bus to college and then spent another £15 for the album on CD for my spangly new Hinari flat cd player (and i never did try marmalade on it - if it didn't work on tomorrows world then why risk it) and now i have 35 years worth of music all on a hard drive and it gets piped round the house by an increasing number of Sonos. but I'm sitting here surrounded by CD's and when i look up and see the actual things i have to make a choice based on what i wanted enough to go to the effort of buying - whether thats in HMV, Tesco or Amazon i choose my music carefully and if i get it wrong - i cant just press stop and go again. I cant even begin to imagine how many amazing albums and artists i would have dismissed immediately because i didn't like the first 30 seconds of an Album - stick Ziggy Stardust on and tell me you wouldn't have gone elsewhere after 3 minutes of "5 years"
i understand that its cheap and expedient and thats important today - i suspect it was high on Elgar's list in 1921 (but thats another thing altogether) and in the long run things will change, i know this & change is good (betamax aside) but i cant ever see a day that i will want to give up the physical pleasure of opening a packet be it 12 or 5 inches and hearing something that i know good or bad i will have to stick with because its what i can afford here and now