Spotify Open and Spotify Unlimited outed
Spotify gets some new options
Spotify has just announced two new services – Spotify Open and Spotify Unlimited in a bid to broaden the audience of the streaming site even further.
Spotify Open is the name for the new basic package – the invitation process has been scrapped and tracks will remain in the current ad-supported form. There will now be a cap on your listening pleasure – you’ll be limited to 20 hours of tunes a month – around 25 albums.
The new subscription price is a cheaper £4.99 a month for Spotify Unlimited. Like the £10 Spotify Premium, it means that ads are killed off, but you can’t sync offline playlists or use Spotify mobile apps.
“Spotify Free” i the new name for the regular desktop free service will still continue, but anyone who wants to acess it will need an invite to get unlimited ad-supported tracks.
Each one uses the new Spotify social networking smarts, so you share your playlists easily with your mates. What do you think? Will you be opting for Spotify Open? Let us know below…
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Paul Ridyard18 May 2010
How can you say 'the invitation process has been scrapped' and then further down you say that for 'spotify free' you need an invite.. They should scrap the invite for all services! I've been waiting ages for mine invite and then I cannot invite anyone unless I spend £10 a month.. how can the advertisers get a max audience then???
Report as inappropriateMike {ickering 18 May 2010
Grooveshark still better options than this!
Report as inappropriateSteve18 May 2010
Nah, sticking with Spotify Free.... which I'm already on. Spotify Open is the same with a limited access so why downgrade in effect...? Spotify Unlimited is the same without the adverts - and I'm not that desperate to get of them if it costs a fiver a month... Rather spend my fiver on keeping my Napster account really... .... An Aside ... Just tried to type in the 2 security words (Captcha) below but had difficulty reading one word so switched to voice... and couldn't understand a word of what was being said at all!... some sort of Arabo-Welsh-Latino-Esperanto language cross, I think, with a bit of double dutch thrown in for good measure! - and only just about made out the instruction bit! Switched back to 'text'! :)
Report as inappropriateOllie18 May 2010
Who needs spotify when you have we7, deezer, groveshark, etc
Report as inappropriatePaul Ridyard18 May 2010
Spotify is great for highest quality mp3 tracks at 320kbps at 79p each, which beats Napster 5 for £5.
Report as inappropriateSteve19 May 2010
Whether paying 79p a track for downloading stuff from Spotify is better than 5 tracks for £5 from Napster is a moot point really... I only stream - never download... and Napster has the better overall choice of stuff IMHO. If I had to pay for Spotify access I'd drop it and I'd not miss it too much.....
Report as inappropriatejohn28 May 2010
This shop has some unlimited ones for sale if you want to buy one spotify invite I bought mine there and it worked like a charm :) http://spotify.bigcartel.com/ Cheers
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