See more Apple Music vs. Spotify deals Spotify occasionally offers broad deals to market its Premium services, which tend to offer a certain number of months free for Premium. Spotify Partner Premium Plans Spotify also partners with phone and internet providers, along with some other large employers, to offer specific deals that can help you find discounts for the service. The Gmail iOS app is finally getting a much more useful widget.
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New Spotify subscribers will see the new pricing starting from 30 April But all existing Spotify subscribers in the US, UK, and Europe will have a one-month grace period before prices are increased. That means existing subscribers will see an increase starting in the June period of billing. Spotify is set to post its latest earnings later this week, and we expect the company to use that moment to provide more details about why its prices are increasing. The average revenue per user also fell by 8 per cent.
That said, it also revealed it now has more than million subscribers , making Spotify is one of the biggest streaming services. The amount of data that Spotify burns through will depend on the streaming quality you choose - more on this in a minute. This is a rough guide for how much data Spotify will get through:. You can check and change the quality of streaming and download of songs using mobile data in the settings on your device.
There are four different levels of streaming quality for Spotify. Streaming is all done in the Ogg Vorbis format and uses the following bitrates for each of the quality levels:.
The quality level you use will depend on your preference and choices around data usage but it's worth noting that Very High is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers.
Signing up to Spotify with Facebook or connecting your Facebook account at a later date will allow you to easily find and follow friends and see what they're listening to. The activity feed is displayed on the right-hand side of the desktop software and is a great way to pick up on friends who listen to the same music as you or poke fun at them for their latest ABBA session.
You can also use the search function within the app to find friends. Head into your profile in settings and tap on the "Find Friends" button, which will allow you to find and follow more friends or artists. If you're not on Facebook or don't want to connect your Facebook account to Spotify you can still find and follow friends, it just might be a bit more difficult in some cases. According to Spotify, the best way to find and follow a friend is to use the search box on the desktop client and use this format:.
If this doesn't work, ask your friend to either copy their profile link directly from their profile page and send it to you. Alternatively, ask if they can share one of their public playlists with you. If they created the playlist, then their username is contained within the URL as a number:. You can either use that number to find them or click on their name in the playlist to follow them.
For more detailed guidance on finding friends on Spotify, see Spotify's official tutorial. Creating a playlist is as easy as right-clicking a song and clicking "Add to Playlist" or clicking the three dots next to a song on the app. Grab your favourite songs and stick them in a playlist for your personal listening pleasure. Once you get started you'll soon find you're following playlists made by friends or curated by artists.
Spotify is smart too, the more you listen, the more it learns the sort of music you like and that has an impact on the music it will present to you in future. When you delve into the "Home" section of the app you'll find a number of recommendations based on your recent listening choices.
This includes artists similar to those you've already been listening to, as well as your " Discover Weekly ", " Release Radar ", "Top Songs of [year]" and "Family Mix" playlists, among others. It's worth noting here that if you follow your favourite musicians you'll get notifications and updates when they release new content too.
To discover new music, you can either tap on the "Home" tab where you'll find plenty of options, or you can go to the "Search" tab to search for new content by category and genre.
These are great ways to discover new music that's similar to your current taste but ones that you might not have otherwise listened to. One of the obvious benefits of Spotify is if you're using it on your phone then you can connect to a wealth of different Bluetooth devices and stream your content that way.
Whether that means a home audio receiver, head unit in your car, Bluetooth headphones or Bluetooth-connected speaker - there are plenty of possibilities. With Spotify Premium you can also take advantage of Spotify Connect. Premium gives you ad-free listening and offline playback. The free version of Spotify meanwhile has many of the same features, but with limits such as no offline listening and restricting you to six skips per hour.
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