SpotifySpotify has finally made a long-awaited change to the way free users can listen to music on their platform.
Spotify has been the go-to platform for millions of music fans for years. And while you can access it for free, the best way to experience everything that Spotify has to offer is through a premium account.
Having Spotify Premium allows you to make playlists with your favorite songs, generate daily mixes based on your taste, access premium podcasts, dive into audiobooks, and even use lossless listening.
Free users have been able to listen to music too, but have been met with adverts between them – akin to a radio station – and only been able to use shuffle, preventing them from listening to whatever they want in the order they want.
Spotify free plan gets a whole load of new features
However, Spotify is now changing that. Spotify free users will finally be able to search for a specific song and play it whenever they want.
“Got a nagging earworm? Hit play in the Spotify app, and you can pick and play any song you want,” they said about the ‘Pick and Play’ system. “Type in your favorite track and start listening instantly.”
Free users will also, at last, be able to get personalized playlists – like Daily Mix and Daylist – as well as having the ability to see lyrics on-screen. They’ll also be able to use Discover Weekly and Release Radar to see new music as it drops from artists.
While these changes will go some way in making free feel like premium, there are still a number of features that remain premium-only.
This includes the soon-to-launch lossless listening, the mixing between playlists with your own transitions, and creating a playlist using AI prompts.
