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Spotify is upgrading its free tier with several new features.
The features give you more control over how you listen to songs.
Users will start to see the new options today.
Less than a week after debuting long-awaited lossless audio and a few weeks after adding direct message capability, Spotify is rolling out some more good news. This time, it's for free users.
In an announcement Monday, the company detailed a major change on the way for free users – the ability to listen to any song at any time.
Until now, Spotify has been mostly a "shuffle" experience. You can add certain songs to a playlist or choose to listen to a pre-built playlist, but when you access that playlist, the songs appear at random. You have the ability to skip certain songs, but you only have a limited number of skips.
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