Spotify Free Tier Changes
Rockin’ in the free world. With the changes to its mobile app, Spotify isn’t just making its free tier more attractive, it’s doubling down on the things that make it better than Apple Music. Now that Spotify has gone public, it may be looking to make some big changes to its free access tier. As many of you probably already know, Spotify currently exists in two different forms: free.
Spotify's mobile app just got a major overhaul.
The music streaming app, available for iOS and Android and rolling out globally to users in the coming weeks, has been redesigned from the ground up to be faster and easier for non-paying users to access specific songs from playlists.
Additionally, the app's got a new 'Data Saver' mode that'll reduce its data usage by up to 75 percent over 3G.
Spotify's mobile app previously didn't let non-paying customers listen to specific tracks, only playlists on shuffle mode. The old gimped mobile experience was a good way to push users to pay for Spotify Premium, but it never made much sense, especially when the desktop apps didn't have the same limitations.
There's also one big catch: Spotify picks 15 on-demand playlists based on your favorited songs.
With the revamped app, the company's over 90 million non-paying users can now listen to select playlists with songs on demand just like Spotify Premium users. Free tier users will be limited to 15 on-demand playlists in any order and skip as many songs as they want.
But there's also one big catch: Spotify picks the 15 on-demand playlists based on your favorited songs.
So for example, if you favorite a lot of Drake, you're going to maybe get a playlist of his songs, which you can play and skip to your heart's content.
And of course, free users will still have to deal with ads, though.
The new free Spotify mobile app gives you 15 playlists that aren’t limited to shuffle mode pic.twitter.com/ixYA4BMaX0
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'We want users to have a great playlist experience,' Babar Zafar, the company's vice president of product development, said. 'This is something that has never been done before for free. The free version of Spotify is becoming a lot more like Premium.'
'The better our free experience is, the more chances they'll become premium users,' Spotify's chief product officer Gustav Söderström said. 'Engagement is the most important indicator of growth.'
What personalization on the new Spotify mobile app looks like. Daily Mix will reflect users range of tastes pic.twitter.com/Oz0IXiAfeC
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As often is the case with apps that get updated with new features over the years, Spotify became bloated.
The new app streamlines the user interface so that it's easier to discover music and navigate between different sections.
One of the most notable changes to the Spotify mobile app is the navigation located at the bottom. On the old version, there were five tabs (Home, Browse, Search, Radio, and Your Library).
Video tour of the new redesigned Spotify iOS app (also coming to Android) pic.twitter.com/0EpLdbr9bL
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While it could hardly be called confusing, Spotify deemed it too cluttered and has done a little consolidating. The new version of the app has four tabs: Home, Search, Your Library, and Premium.
The previous Browse and Search sections have been rolled into a single new Search section with more visually attractive categories for essentials like top charts, new releases, genres, etc.
New Spotify mobile app has been simplified with fewer tabs. Consolidated browse and search tab pic.twitter.com/8Lb77w9w28
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Whereas the previous version of the mobile app was excessively text-heavy, the new app puts things like album art front and center. The new app also simplifies things like saving songs; instead of tapping the '···' next to a song to open up a list of options (save, add to playlist, share, etc.), there's now a heart icon.
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Moreover, Spotify's also making its mobile app more personalized. When users download the app, they'll be prompted to select what types of artists and genres they like. Over time, the app will learn a user's personal preferences to help surface relevant playlists.. hmm, wonder where that idea came from (*cough*Apple Music*cough*).
New Spotify app asks users what artists they like after they download the app..hmm looks familiar pic.twitter.com/ruXrsSZGDB
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Another important addition to Spotify is the Data Saver mode. With a flip of a switch within the app's settings, users will be able to reduce the app's data usage by up to 75 percent less when connected over 3G, Zafar said.
'We are creatively using the user's device to cache, store music so they can listen to [music] ahead time. We will also optimize how streaming works when you are playing music on 3G. This will not be limited to music streaming. As you use the app, we get creative on what images it shows.'
Spotify users can save up to 75% of mobile data with data saver mode while streaming on 3G pic.twitter.com/pZvMBtAOI4
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Asked about whether the Data Saver mode will result in reduced audio streaming quality, Zafar didn't provide a straight answer, but you can read between the lines.
'We do many creative things, optimize streaming to use less data. Part of that is optimizing the audio quality. There is no fixed set of rules for what is happening. It is an opt-in mode. Users will always be in control.'
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Zafar also said there's no specific amount of storage the Data Saver mode will use. It'll be specific to each user; a heavy Spotify user will have more data cached.
We've yet to dig into all of the new tweaks made to the Spotify mobile app, but so far the changes look like a step in the right direction for a company chasing growth after going public earlier this month.
Spotify currently has over 157 million users, 71 million of which are paying customers. Ahead of its IPO, the company said it expected to grow its paid users to 96 million by the end of the year. That nice prominent 'Premium' button on the far right of the navigation should help them reach that goal.
- Spotify is giving free tier members access to more songs in its massive catalog.
- The hope is that this new Spotify free update will bring more users to the service, and turn those users into paying customers.
- Spotify is now a public company, so it has to increase its revenue to appease shareholders.
Now that Spotify is officially a public company, it has to continually make more money year-over-year to appease shareholders. As of now, the best way for the company to make more money is to get more people to subscribe to its paid service, Spotify Premium.
The company’s strategy, according to Recode, is to give away more of its music catalog for free, starting today. Spotify hopes that by making the free tier of service the best choice for music listeners, it will be easier to turn those listeners into paying customers.
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As of now, anyone can create an account with Spotify and listen to free music as much as they like. The caveats are that mobile users’ listening experiences will be interrupted periodically with advertisements; be limited to specific songs via pre-programmed playlists; and be limited to only six track-skips per hour.
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What Is Spotify Free
Desktop users have on-demand access to every song in the Spotify catalog with no skip-limits but have to deal with ads. The ability to listen to the entire Spotify catalog on-demand with no ads and no skip limits on both desktop and mobile is reserved for Premier members.
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But starting today, Spotify members utilizing its free service on mobile devices will get the ability to select more songs on-demand from 15 playlists. There will still be ads, and there will still be a skip-limit, but your library access will have a broader reach. Desktop free tier users will see no change in service.
Premier membership currently costs $9.99 per month for a single user or $14.99 for a family of up to five people who all live at the same address.
Spotify Free Plan
Eventually, Spotify might be able to increase its revenue by introducing its own hardware. We got a glimpse of what the company might have in store when an ad for an in-car device appeared in some Spotify apps, and then promptly disappeared. The rumor is that Spotify could announce that device today.