Spotify Just Made Their Free Version A Lot Better With These Features!

If you have been using Spotify on their free tier and getting mad are frustrated that you can’t play the exact song you want, that just changed. Spotify just rolled out an amazing update this September that will give free users a lot more control over their music.

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The Change

What's New

The amazing new features include how free users can now pick any song they want and not having to be forced into shuffling playlists. This is one of the biggest complaints about Spotify’s free tier. Now if you want to play a song again and again you can without paying!

How It Works

When you open the Spotify app and search for any song, you can press play and it will start playing that song right then. There’s no shuffle required, which means this works exactly like Spotify Premium for song selection.

All the New Free Features

Pick & Play

If you have a song stuck in your brain, just search it and play. That simple. No more hoping it will come up in the shuffle. This feature works on mobile and desktop, which is just amazing!

Share & Play

Now if a friend or family member sends you a song link you can just tap it and listen to it right then. There’s no more, “this requires premium” message anymore!

Feature That Got Better

Daylist Updates

The Daylist personalized playlist will now change throughout the day, and it will understand that you like different music in the morning vs the evening. Which is amazing that it knows what your into, so you enjoy the app experience even more!

What This Means

For Free Users

A huge upgrade to the Spotify experience. Now there’s a thinner gap between free and premium plans. You can finally listen to the specific song you want.

For the Industry

With this power move, Spotify is putting pressure on music providers like Apple Music, YouTube music, and iHeart Music for their free tier features. This will make streaming wars heat up a lot more! This strategy is to hook users with better free features, so they convert to premium later, but to be realistic this actually may make people stay in the free plan longer.

What You Should Do

If You're a Free User

If you want this feature immediately update the Spotify App, and then you will be able to access all the features like Pick & Play, the new Daylist features, and take advantage of better sharing with friends and family.

Things to Remember

Some things that you should remember is that ads are still between some songs, you still can’t download music for offline access, and skips are limited like before.

All of these new features could change how all music platforms make their free tiers, and boost competition, and user friendly features.

Will you now start using Spotify? Will these features make you stay longer on Spotify’s free plan, or make you more likely to upgrade. Let us know in the comments!