Spotify, All You Need To Know About The Streaming Service

Spotify is one of the most famous music streaming services in the world, in fact, it’s the most famous one with the biggest amount of paying users, and a huge music library that includes more than 30 million music tracks. Spotify’s library is growing every day with hundreds or even thousands of tracks being added every single day.  

Spotify started back in October 2008, in the Swedish capital Stockholm. When it first started, the service was a suggested solution to the problem of hacking the music content from all kinds, but it ended up changing the music production industry in the whole world. In this article, you will find everything you want to know about the Swedish music streaming service.

Features and Services

Spotify supports almost every device, from smartphones to Windows and Mac PC, through tablets, as well as a browser platform just in case you have an operating system that is not supported yet. You can always choose and sync between your playlists on all your devices in real time, and you can choose which device you would like to listen to from the Devices Available menu, where you will see all the available devices that you can use at that moment.

Besides being able to create your own playlists choosing from a huge variety of songs, Spotify has a lot of pre-made playlists for you, all you have to do is to choose a playlist according to your current mood, or according to the genre that you like. You can also choose a playlist according to the time of the day, if you are working or studying, you can find a lot of playlists that will help you to concentrate and focus, if it’s a Friday night, the app will suggest some party playlists for you, if you are getting ready to sleep, and you need something that will help you to relax after a long day, you will find what you are looking for on Spotify as well. With its huge growing library, you will always find what you feel like listening to.

Under Charts, you will find the top 100 songs in the world, or the top 50 songs in your country. Or you can find out about all the new releases, whether it was among the top 100 or not.

Spotify services doesn’t stop only offering your favorite music on demand, it will also help you to discover new music that will suits your music taste, through the Discover option, you can find some new albums and playlists based on what you have listened to before, you will also have your own Discover Weekly playlists, those playlists will start to improve over time to understands your music taste and offer you what you like.

What we have mentioned before should be enough for you try Spotify if you are not a user yet, but there are some features, and tricks that even the users Spotify might not be aware of yet, a small example for this is the Podcast section in the app. Nowadays only a few people are listening to the radio, so Spotify offered a new platform for content creators to publish their podcasts. You can find a huge library of podcasts on Spotify, with different topics like Business & Technology, News & Politics, Comedy, and much more. It is way more convenient and time efficient to listen to a podcast instead of watching a video sometimes.

How Much Does Spotify Cost?

You can get your Spotify account for $0.00. Yes, you can a free account on Spotify and listen to your favorite music, but your options will be limited of course if you compare it with the paid version of the app. The free app has a lot of ads as well, the ads will run between songs, the same way it does on Youtube for example.

In the case of the paid version, or Spotify Premium, the price is different from one country to the other but it will cost you $9.99 per month in the US for example, and around 9.99 EUR for most countries in the EU. with the premium account you will no longer listen to any ads, you will also have the option to save and download your songs, so you can listen to them without internet.

Spotify offers you a family discount, where you can get Spotify Premium for yourself and 4 of your family members for $15 only. In case you are a student, then it must be hard for you to pay $10 just to listen to music, but with the Student discount that Spotify offers, you will get a 50% discount which will make it much more affordable.

 

Availability And Supported Devices

Spotify is available in more than 60 countries around the world, and the list is always growing, you can check if your country is among those countries through the company’s official website.

When it comes to the supported devices, it is pretty hard to list all the supported devices by Spotify, we can easily say “pretty much everything”, we mentioned before that the app is available on all platforms, but the service is also available with most smart speakers, like Google Home, and Amazon Echo, with almost all smartwatches. Spotify already created a website to help you set up your premium account almost everywhere.

In order to keep the high-quality service, the Swedish streaming service gets a lot of updates, you can always check them out by following the Spotify Tag at Samma3a Tech.

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