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How to use your monthly Spotify e-book allowance
Here's how to take advantage of your monthly Spotify e-book allowance
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you can listen to over 200,000 audiobooks for free and on-demand. With the service just starting, things could change quickly. For now, Spotify is giving 15 hours per month of free audiobook access to individual Premium subscribers and plan managers for Family and Duo accounts.
Spotify may finally be launching the hi-fi streaming plan it teased two years ago
Details of the 'Supremium' plan were spotted in the Spotify app's code
If you are a diehard Spotify streamer, you know the advantages of signing up for a Premium membership. In addition to being able to listen to music without ad interruptions, Premium allows you to queue up any song on mobile, download music, and more — but what if there were a better plan than Premium? Spotify teased a plan back in 2021 that promised features, such as higher-quality audio, but it has been relatively mum ever since. Now, a Redditor believes that the streaming giant may finally be moving forward after identifying suggestive coding.
What is the Spotify Premium Family Plan?
Get Spotify premium for the whole family at an unbeatable price
The Spotify Family Plan is perfect for households where more than one person wants to enjoy Spotify's gigantic library of music and podcasts. This premium plan allows each family member to listen to what they want, and it's cost-effective. So, let's look at what it is and how it can benefit your family.
Spotify's rumored hi-fi 'Platinum' service doesn't look cheap, especially for its family plan
That will be $20-30 a month, please
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Most popular streaming services offer a hi-fi streaming quality setting to paying subscribers. This setting lets you hear greater detail, just as artists would have heard it when creating the track. Apple Music, Deezer, and Tidal offer hi-fi streaming for a price, but Spotify doesn’t treat even Premium subscribers to CD-quality audio. It confirmed its plans to bring hi-fi to customers in 2021, but the company didn’t say when it would arrive. A survey presented to a Spotify user recently suggests we may not need to wait much longer, but the price for it may be exceptionally high.
Spurred by growing subscriber numbers, Spotify has its sights set on audiobooks
The company has discontinued Car Thing to focus on profitable endeavours instead
Spotify is the single biggest audio platform out there, and it has long expanded beyond music. Love it or hate it, the company's push into podcasts was and is financially viable, even if it means that your favorite podcasts are locked to Spotify and no longer available on your favorite podcast player. As part of its Q2 2022 earning call, it becomes clear that Spotify is still looking to grow further, and its push into audiobook content is taking shape.
Last spring, Spotify announced its Car Thing — an accessory that allows you to interact with your phone’s Spotify app while in a car... and nothing else. Without support for navigation, or any other bells and whistles, you might just be better off sticking with Android Auto (or Apple CarPlay) instead. After pouring approximately $32 million into Car Thing, the company seems to have realized that the product is quite the nothing burger, and has decided to end manufacturing.
Spotify wants to help you curate the perfect playlist by building off your existing ones
Enhance is its latest music discovery tool
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are good at making playlists and those who are not. For everyone in the latter group — myself included — Spotify's personalized mixes are a lifesaver, staving off the frustrating experience of building a perfect blend of current tunes and old favorites. If you're tired of recommended collections, the world's largest dedicated music service is making it easier to perfect your playlists.
Spotify is testing a bargain-bin tier to lift its most annoying restrictions
Unlimited skips and the ability to play select tracks for as low as $1/mo
Spotify, the music audio streaming service, is testing a more affordable way to access some of the functionality normally reserved for full-paying Premium members. Called Spotify Plus, the new tier will let users skip as many tracks as they'd like.
Spotify's first hardware product is here, and it's probably going to confuse you
It's a car thing (called Car Thing)
Despite focusing solely on music streaming software and podcast production over the last decade, Spotify has secretly had a dedicated device for playback since 2019. "Car Thing," as it's called, is designed to make listening to music in the car more accessible and has been in testing with an extremely small number of users in a closed beta. Although Spotify isn't ready to launch its hardware to the general public just yet, it became much more real starting today. A new version of Car Thing is now available for select Premium subscribers through an invite-only release.
Spotify is now available in 13 new markets across Europe, including Russia and Ukraine
Some surprisingly late additions for the most popular streaming service
From online streaming to classic vinyl, there are a lot of ways to listen to music these days. Spotify is one of the biggest names in the streaming game, but that doesn't mean much if it's inaccessible in your country. Today, Spotify's announcing availability in 13 new market regions across Eastern Europe, along with 200 new playlists from the region.
New 'hide song' option in Spotify will let Premium subscribers tweak Playlists (Update: Rolling out)
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Spotify is giving its Premium-subscribed customers the ability to hide songs they don't want to hear in more types of playlists. A new "hide song" option in the three-dot context menu will let you skip a specific track before you get to it.
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Back in November last year, Spotify was giving out free Google Home Minis to Premium for Family account holders, in order to encourage people to sign up to its plan. The company is renewing its offer this year but is now making it available to both Family and individual subscribers, regardless of whether they're new members or have already been using a paid subscription.
Google Home and Assistant already offer plenty of music-related commands that let you play any track, artist, album, or playlist you want. But if you have nothing in particular in mind, the options become a lot more limited. You can say "play some music," which usually continues where you last left off, though that's not conductive to discovery. With some new commands, you'll be able to trust Spotify to play recommended tracks for you without having to continue or choose anything.
Got AT&T? Use Spotify? The carrier is looking to boost the appeal of its top-of-the-line wireless plan by making Spotify Premium subscriptions free as an option for its Unlimited &More Premium package.
Spotify offers a great 50% off discount on its Premium plan if you're a student, making it a more attractive option for young adults who can't afford to pay the full price of a monthly subscription. However, until now, this was only available in three countries: US, UK, and Germany. Today, the offer is expanding to 33 other countries.
AmpMe, the app that turns several phones into perfectly synchronized speakers for the same music, has seen many updates since its release in 2015. At first, the app only supported SoundCloud as a music source, but it has added local music and YouTube, and improved its app to synchronize Bluetooth speakers as well (with their delays). Now the service is adding one of its most requested features: Spotify support.
Spotify has offered its Premium for Family plan for some time now, and in May the price was dropped to $14.99 a month. Now Spotify is expanding availability to the land up north, at the same $14.99/month pricing as the United States.
Indonesian Android users and music fans, we've got some great news for you today. If you were heartbroken last month by the demise of MixRadio, one of the most popular free music streaming services in your country, and you never liked Deezer, and you hated having to pay for Apple Music because it didn't offer any free tier, you'll be happy to know that there's a new player in town and it's bringing all the big guns to the fight.
Musixmatch was known for the longest time as a lyrics application that found the words to a song you're listening to and displayed them in rhythm with the music. But Musixmatch has grown beyond that and over the past couple of years has become one of the most interesting music players on Android with local music playback, Chromecast support, and a nice Material Design interface. It is moving one step further now with the addition of Spotify.
It's Black Friday, and deals are popping up everywhere like crazy. The Nexus 9 saw its price slashed by a whopping $200 and the brand-new Nexus 5X is being sold at just $299 on the Google Store and B&H. But while those deals are definitely great and all, nothing beats free.