Spotify has today announced a new plan for the entire family. If you've been wanting to have a single billing account for the household but keep individual playlists, it's now possible for up to five family members to share a single Spotify subscription, starting from $14.99 a month.
While each family member will share the same billing account, listening history, recommendations and playlists are stored separately. When it comes to pricing, there are some savings available with $14.99 required for two members, $19.99 for three, $24.99 for four, and finally $29.99 for five. Spotify Premium currently sells for $9.99.
Spotify Family will be launching globally over the upcoming weeks. Should you require more information, check out the official Spotify announcement.
Source: Spotify
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Spotify announces new family plan for up to five users
It would be nice if Google would offer something like this.
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This is what I'm waiting for!
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Nice idea, but can more than one member be using the service simultaneously?
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According to Spotify, everyone on the plan can listen at the same time.
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That's the key. My wife and I have been using Spotify for a couple years and that has always been the issue. I'd be listening and she'd play something on her phone and stop mine. Now with our daughter also using it on her iPad there's a little fighting sometimes lol. If we can all use it simultaneously that would be awesome.
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But you know what would be even greater? That Spotify would start to support chromecast.
But Spotify doesn't give a shit and is now almost the only music service not offering that support.
Even worse is their interaction with their userbase and how we are treated on their own support/community forum.
Chromecast support been THE most asked for feature in Spotify history with way over 6k kudos and 150+ pages of comments requesting it, Spotify only recently changed status to 'under consideration' meaning we might see it implemented in a year or two if we are lucky...
I just wish AC would do some reporting on this strange resistance from Spotify to implement Chromecast support.
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I just open Spotify on the browser on my PC and send the page to Chromecast. Less than ideal but it works.
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Exactly. I wish AC would get an interview with them as to specifically why they have been ignoring their users for well over a year when others implemented support rather quickly. I'd settle for Engadget or anyone else grabbing that interview too. But tech journalism just doesn't do investigative reporting like they should. So everything remains a big mystery.
This move is definitely a step in the right direction, but no Chromecast support equals deal breaker. I canceled my Spotify membership over this single issue, and won't come back until they resolve it.
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Maybe AC can also do some reporting on why Google is too stupid to support third party hardware for their music service. Why can't I use it on my Denon receiver, or my Uconnect system in my car (not via Bluetooth)? What about my Sony television? Why can't Google support hardware like that, when Spotify supports two of the three? I would switch over to Google Music if they did.
Not a bad deal actually. Google should do something like this too. As long as I have my grandfathered google play music price though I'll stick with Google. But spotify even more now, will always be my back up
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This may be the thing that pushes me from GPAA to Spotify.
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Say what you want about the service, Beats is half the price.
Isn't that if your on att or something like that
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You get what you pay for too. Spotify is worth it.
Yes, you have to be on AT&T. It's $14.99 for five people and up to 10 devices.
Sorry, this was my reply to -IRON- above.
Now, if only Google Play Music All Access would do it....
Offline mode on normal premium could work for 3 users?
No Chromecast support, no thanks.
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