
On the other hand, it could drive customers to switch platforms and stream music with competitors who don’t require location verification. New changes will root out those taking advantage of the plan and force them to pay a much higher individual premium account for the price of $9.99.

With that many users banking in on a great discount it’s no wonder it’s affecting Spotify’s bottom line. It’s unrealistic for Spotify to require Family Plan users to all reside at the same address.Ī Billboard article from last year states that nearly half of all streaming users are apart of a family plan.

Family Plan users who received this email can follow a link in which the company explains, “Spotify will only use your GPS data to verify your location and nothing else.” This change directly affects split home families, college students away at school or those who travel for work. Apple Music is now 10.99 of course (but you do get access to lossless and spatial audio content for the extra dollar) and Spotify Premium is 9.99 a month for individual accounts, and while. That being said, i would still recommend getting family plans as it’s much easier getting seperate accounts.Without confirming your address to Spotify by sending your GPS location via Google Maps, you could lose access to your account. ) the only downsides is that you have to turn offline mode on and off every 30 days along with not being able to play non downloaded songs until you turn offline mode back off

you would then just drag to an empty playlist on the left.Īlso just a heads up, if you download songs and then then turn on offline mode in the settings you can listen to music at the same time for up to 5 devices (the maximum amount of devices that can have downloaded songs. Im pretty sure there’s websites to do it as well but the easiest way to do it on a laptop is on the account you want to transfer the music to, click on any song (not play) so it is highlighted and turns grey then press control and “a” at the same time which would select the whole playlist. (doesn’t changed anything except part where it says date added to playlist will be reset). The cost of each plan over 12 months is as follows: -Individual: 119.88 per year -Duo: 155.88 per year -Family: 191.88 per year -Student: 59.88 per year Is there a 12-month plan for Spotify Premium Amazon, Best Buy, PayPal and GameStop are four places where you can purchase an annual subscription gift card for 99. You can copy playlists but you can’t transfer them.
