Spotify Launches All New Free Service
Music streaming service Spotify has introduced its All-New Free service at a press conference in New York City.
South Africans however have been fortunate to experience the free service from 13 March when Spotify was launched in the country.
Spotify says one of the benefits of the All-New Free service is the Data Saver mode, which offers automatic low bitrate streaming.
Spotify’s default setting for data streaming in South Africa is 24kbps, perfect if you’re streaming when not on wifi.
Spotify Free is an ongoing, ad-supported service, with no expiry date. You can listen for free, however if you choose to upgrade to the Premium service for offline listening and other benefits it will cost you R59.99 per month.
With Spotify Free, users can listen to all their favourites on mobile, tablet and computer with access to a host of Spotify benefits including:
- Full catalogue access – that’s over 35m tracks in the catalogue
- Personalised playlists, background play and charts – with a wide selection of playlists created specifically with the local audience in mind.
- Mobile: listen to any artist, album or playlist on your mobile phone for free (Android and iPhone).
- Desktop/tablet: access to the full Spotify catalogue on desktop and tablet for free.
- Access to every playlist from our local experts and our worldwide community of music fans. Over 2 billion in total!
- Create your own playlists and share instantly with friends on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, text and email.
