Spotify what do you get for free

Spotify Premium adds Extreme quality streaming at Kbps, which can make for better, more detailed audio output if you use high-end headphones or speakers. Want to jam out on the morning commute when you're squished into a subway car in a tunnel where there's no cell service? Spotify Premium lets you download up to 10, songs so you can listen when you're away from the internet or just want to cut down on your data usage.

And you can do this on up to five different devices. To download an album, playlist or podcast, just tap the Download toggle switch. You'll see a little, green, downward arrow next to each song after it finishes downloading. Planning a long, internet-free trip? Carplay simplifies the interface, so distractions are lessened. When you connect your smartphone to your car by Bluetooth, Spotify will automatically go into Carplay mode or Android Auto mode, depending on your OS and if your car is compatible with these features.

These features reduce the amount of information displayed on the screen, making it safer to navigate the app while in the car. Have your passenger do it. They also make for easy integration with the navigation apps Google Maps and Waze. Similarly, many music-listening devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, offer Spotify integration for easy access.

In addition to this, Wrapped shows users the statistics generalized by region and in the world as a whole. Because of this one small detail, Spotify Premium wins this section, but, all Spotify users get a lot of really cool features.

And the winner is Spotify Premium! Until next time, happy listening. Next: Spotify approved a patent to record user speech: Do you need to worry? Although, it might be hard to find because Spotify is so centered around music. Start by typing in "audiobooks" into the search bar and that will lead you to playlists, or try searching for specific book. Your local public library probably also has free audiobooks online too, just saying. No, Spotify only offers discounted prices to students, live-in couples or roommates of 2, and families up to 6.

Yes, this can be attributed to both your free Spotify subscription and Spotify's relationship to Amazon. Unless you have Spotify Premium, you cannot request specific songs through your Echo Dot. You can, however, ask Alexa to play Today's Top Hits, your Discover Weekly playlist, or a custom-made playlist of your own and it will shuffle through the songs from these playlists. Yes, if you type a song's lyrics into the Spotify search bar, the song will come up so long as the artist has affiliated their song lyrics to the song.

This can be done through services like Musixmatch. Yes, it was recently leaked that Spotify is planning to implement this capability so you won't have to upload your local files through the desktop app before being able to listen to them on mobile.

That's not quite how it works. Spotify recently released a new tool for artists to be able to let Spotify know which of their songs they want to prioritize to be added to users' algorithms. This doesn't mean that their songs will necessarily be put into your algorithm, and there's nothing an artist can do to ensure that it will be.

It's just emphasizing one song over another if Spotify's algorithm so chooses to select that artist for your recommended songs. This tool is just one additional cog in the machine of Spotify's algorithms, and is currently only being implemented for Spotify's Radio and Autoplay. Ostensibly they are helping to cover costs for those 90 million users on the free tier. Other limitations for non-paying users on the desktop are the restriction on the streaming quality of the tracks and the blocked access to the offline download option.

For those who spend a lot of time listening on mobile, paying for a Premium subscription to get the full Spotify experience is much easier to justify. This is already a popular source of free, ad-supported music for millions of us, and the rumor is that Google will take that further in the future.

You can already do plenty with YouTube and music: Put together mixes, create customized playlists, and even queue up songs on a Chromecast. Artists and labels are already uploading their material to Youtube, I think to discourage piracy. Ideally for couples without kids, Premium Duo looks interesting, and includes a playlist called Duo Mix that is automatically compiled based on the pair's listening habits.

Historically, Spotify's free and paying users both had access to the same library of "more than 40 million songs. So, if hearing the latest and greatest tracks matters a lot to you, it's time to consider that paid tier. But you may not need to pay that much.

Have family members who you can split the bill with? Otherwise, Spotify's free option is still going to be great for those who spend their time listening to older jams that they're more familiar with. You can listen to Spotify pretty much everywhere. In this regard, it doesn't matter if you pay for Premium, as Free users connect to all of the same devices.