Spotify Free comes with enough limitations that the company hopes it will persuade you to upgrade to a premium subscription. But one of the four limits is being removed from today …
Unlike Apple Music, which offers paid subscriptions only (aside from a limited free trial), Spotify offers the choice of free and premium subscriptions.
Spotify Free has so far had four major drawbacks:
Interruptions from ads
Lower audio quality
Limited ability to skip unwanted tracks
Shuffle-only playback on mobile
That latter limitation meant that it was impossible to simply choose a specific track and immediately listen to it. Instead, you had to choose an album or playlist containing it and then hope you had sufficient skips available to quickly reach it.
All that is changing from today, however. Engadget reports that free users can now choose any track and listen to it immediately.
As the site notes, this happened shortly after the company finally announced lossless audio for premium subscribers.
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