Unfortunately, Spotify is making changes to its free service in India. From now onwards the free users of the Audio Streaming app will not be able to access a few features. Now those features will only be accessible to Premium users in the country. After imposing a cap following features will not be accessible.
Now users who have not subscribed to Spotify premium subscription will no longer to able to avail benefits of other features of the free services. The Application is now limiting the users to play songs in any order, or repeating songs/or on a loop and tapping back to the previous song. However, the users will still be able to access to the artists, albums and playlists they like with song recommendations mixed in.
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All of these features have been available to free users since its launch. But now after imposing a limit, the company says these restrictions were being put to make the free experience more uniform across the globe.
A pop-up has started to show up on the Spotify app for those who are not paying a subscription. There three of the above-listed features have been locked and will now only be unlocked if you opt for the premium service. So now the users have the choice to pay and benefit. The Spotify Premium subscription in India starts at Rs 119. After you have opted for the paid service you will get access to on-demand and ad-free music listening, offline music downloads, and quality music streaming.
It should be noted that for several months, we at Gadget Bridge were also unable to access the option that allowed us to choose a specific section of a song, or to play our playlist in the order that it was organised.
Spotify Premium offer a total of four plans:
Mini Play starts at Rs 7 per day where only one account on mobile is accessible. Users have access to Ad-free music listening on mobile, Group Sessions and Download 30 songs on 1 mobile device.
Whereas the only Individual Plan/monthly starts at Rs 119. Along with access to Ad-free music listening and Group Sessions, you will also be able to download 10k songs/device on 5 devices.
Duo Plan as the name suggest allow two accounts to access the Spotify Premium Service starting at Rs 149 per month. This is suitable for couples having access for Ad-free music listening, Group Sessions and downloading 10k songs/device, on 5 devices per account.
Lastly, the Family pack starts at Rs 179 per month where 6 family members can be added. This plan offers all the basic features but provide the functionality to block explicit music.
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