Spotify simply made this key Premium function obtainable to free customers

Spotify appears to be in a really beneficiant temper these days, at the least other than it rising subscription costs and cracking down on account sharing. Earlier this 12 months, the streaming service made it attainable to quickly “snooze” songs for 30 days, and extra lately it introduced “lossless audio” to all Premium subscribers with out an additional charge.

In a weblog put up from yesterday, Spotify introduced that it’s taking issues even additional by increasing the options obtainable to free customers. Such options embrace direct playback of particular songs on demand, which beforehand solely allowed you to take heed to random “comparable” songs.

Spotify is looking this “Decide & Play,” which solely Premium customers may do up till now. Spotify can also be wrapping it along with what it calls “Search & Play” (discover and immediately play the track you need) and “Share & Play” (share a monitor with somebody, who can immediately take heed to it).

All of those methods to take heed to particular songs on demand are actually obtainable to free customers. Spotify additionally desires you to know that you would be able to create your personal playlists and take heed to Spotify’s expert-curated playlists without cost. You may as well personalize your playlist covers and discover new songs curated to your musical tastes with the particular Uncover Weekly playlist.

All of this with none restrictions?

It isn’t clear from the weblog put up itself whether or not on-demand playback of particular songs is limitless. Like the airing of lyrics or skipping of undesirable songs, Spotify may restrict how usually you are able to do it per day.

A Spotify spokesperson informed TechCrunch that there’s certainly a every day restrict, however he didn’t elaborate on how excessive that restrict is about. In any case, Premium customers will retain a sure benefit over free customers, along with the opposite Premium-only options like lossless audio.