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Spotify on Wednesday expanded the free tier of its service to all devices, including smartphones and tablets.

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Any playlist with the Shuffle icon can be listened to on Shuffle. Playlist without the Shuffle icon are available to Pick and Play. These are playlists you can play.

In the past, free Spotify users could only access Spotify Radio on mobile devices and tablets, but like other radio services, this prevented them from listening to a specific artist or music in their own playlists. The new offering expands on-demand listening to free users on tablets, and allows smartphone users to listen to their own playlists or music from a specific artist in shuffle mode.

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See also: Spotify Expands Free Streaming to All Devices

Spotify created the following chart, which shows the access options that users have:

When it comes to specifics on how everything works, it becomes a bit more complicated. Fortunately, Mashable spoke with Charlie Hellman, Spotify's vice president of product, who broke down the company's new mobile offering.

Can Free Users Listen to Any Song They Want on Mobile and Tablet?

You can listen to any song you want, and in any order, if you use Spotify on a tablet. On iOS, this means the iPad or iPad mini. On Android, Spotify is setting 7-inches in diagonal as the screen minimum for tablets. The app will determine which version of the experience you see in Android.

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On the tablet, the play-on-demand feature works the same as it does on desktop. You will have ads every five to six songs, and you can't save playlists for offline listening. Spotify decided to treat the tablet as a desktop after observing how people use the product.

In a post-PC world, the tablet is increasingly becoming the main home computer for many consumers, including Spotify users; for that reason, the company chose to make the experience on-par with what you'd get on the desktop.

On smartphones, only Spotify Premium users have the option to listen to specific songs on-demand.

How Does Free Listening on Mobile Work?

Although Spotify doesn't offer free on-demand listening via mobile, it has substantially expanded the types of music you can listen to, and how you can listen to them.

You can now listen to music from any artist in 'shuffle' mode; this means you can search for an artist, then instantly listen to a station that only features that particular artist. It's a big switch from typical online radio services, such as Pandora and iTunes Radio, which may let you create a station around an artist, but wind up having other artists in the mix, too.

What's more, you can listen to your own Spotify playlists in shuffle mode. Be aware, however, that there are a few rules about how they work.

What Are the Rules for Free Shuffle Mode?

Your playlists will need to meet several parameters to work in free shuffle mode. (Don't worry, Spotify will automatically fill out your playlist if it doesn't meet these requirements.)

They include:

  • A playlist must have at least 20 songs

  • A playlist must consist of at least three albums

  • Even if you list the same track 20 times in a row, it still only counts as one

Spotify said the vast majority of playlists have more than 20 songs, and include many different artists. Although this means you can't listen exclusively to a shuffled mix of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, you can listen to Rolling Stone's playlist for its top 100 tracks of 2013.

Plus, as long as you add a few songs from other albums to your Random Access Memories playlist, you'll be guaranteed to hear the whole album during your listening session.

How Is This Better Than Pandora, Songza or iTunes Radio?

The biggest change is that you can choose to only listen to a specific artist — something the other services don't offer. What's more, you can listen to playlists you create.

Songza is a playlist-oriented Internet radio product, but its licensing rules mean that users can't listen to playlists they create themselves.

This is also true for other streaming services that offer access to curated playlists. Usually, it's fine, especially when users are passively listening to tunes. Where it becomes problematic is if you've collected a bunch of tracks for an event, such as a holiday party. What's the point of having the ultimate holiday playlist if you can't even play it back on your own device?

Can Free Users Create Playlists on Mobile?

Yes. Free users can create their own playlists or add songs to existing playlists in the app; this means if you want to add a track from Spotify Discover to an existing playlist, you can do so without having to worry. You can also create new playlists with music or artists you come across.

How Do Ads Work on Mobile and Tablet?

Just as they do on the desktop and within Spotify Radio now. Interruptions and ads will come every five to six songs.

Should I Bother Paying for Spotify Premium?

This will totally depend on how you listen to music. If you mostly listen to playlists while on your phone, and avoid selecting albums and tracks, you may not feel the need to pay for Spotify Premium. What's more, if you use an iPad or Android tablet for most of your listening, you no longer need to pay to play any song you want.

Still, Spotify Premium continues to have advantages. On the smartphone side, the biggest advantage is that you don't have to deal with ads, and you can save music for offline listening; this is really useful when on an airplane or the subway. Spotify Premium users can also stream audio in higher quality, so if you're an audiophile (at least in the context of streaming music), you get higher fidelity sound.

Spotify told Mashable that getting rid of ads and offline playback are actually the two biggest reasons users upgrade to Spotify Premium. The goal of the new Spotify freemium offering is to encourage users to listen to as much music as possible.

'We've found that the more stuff we give users, the more users are willing to pay us,' Hellman said. It's a good point. I know I have personally found that the value in subscription music services really shows itself the more I use it. Having more mobile listeners gives Spotify a chance to convert more of those listeners into Premium subscribers.

How Do I Get Started Using the Free Mobile Offering?

Make sure you are running the latest version of Spotify for iOS or Android, and the option is available now. For free users, browsing artists or accessing your playlists will show an option to 'Shuffle Play.'

On Android tablets and the iPad, you now have the ability to listen to any track you want at will.

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The free version of Spotify Music allows you to freely stream Spotify music with 160 kbps in shuffle play with ads. To download Spotify music for offline streaming without ads, you need to purchase for the premium subscription in 320kbps ad-free music for $9.99/mo for offline playback. Premium subscription is great, but we need to pay the service about $120/yr. In the following paragraphs, I would like to show you the ultimate guide on how to use Spotify on mobile without Premium.


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Part 1. How to Install Spotify Music on Mobile Phone

No matter you use iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Blackberry, you can find Spotify on Mobile from App Store. Even though you are using the latest smartphones, say Samsung Galaxy S9+/S9, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, HTC U12+, HTC U11, Sony Xperia XZ2, LG G7 ThinQ, Huawei Mate10 Pro or OnePlus 6. Like any other apps on your device, you can check the downloads, see new features and reviews.


Download and install Spotify Music on your smartphone and you will be asked to sign in after the installation. There are email sign-in and Facebook sign-in options. You can choose the either one. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up with few taps.


Part 2. Enjoy Spotify Music Offline without Premium

Though the amount of Spotify paid subscription is growing, not every Spotify users think it is necessary for music streaming subscription after comparing the differences between Spotify Free and Spotify Premium. So, is Spotify Premium the only way to get Spotify music downloaded and played offline? Of course not. You can also use TuneFab Spotify Music Converter.


TuneFab Spotify Music Converter is what we call a once-and-for-all solution to download Spotify music and enjoy them on mobile phones as needed without Premium subscription. The program is good at automatically remove DRM restriction of the encrypted OGG music and convert them to almost any music format that you want, including MP3, WAV, M4A and FLAC. It can scan for ID3 tags and enables you to edit music title, albums and playlists if it is needed. Let’s see how it works together:


Step 1. Install TuneFab Spotify Music Converter

Download and install TuneFab Spotify Music Converter on your computer. Then you will see the following interface. Make sure Spotify is installed on your computer and the program will detect your Spotify and bring it up automatically the time you launch the converting tool.

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Step 2. Drag and Drop Spotify Music

In the interface, as you can see, you can simply drag songs from Spotify to the converter and click 'Add Files'. Or you can also copy song link or playlist link and paste it into the bottom box.


Step 3. Browse and Select Songs to Convert

After dragging songs or playlist into the converter, all the songs you selected will be listed in the interface. You can double check them and uncheck songs you don’t want to convert.

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Step 4. Select Output Format & Folder

To download Spotify music, you have to choose an output format. MP3, WAV, M4A and FLAC are supported. Go to 'Options' > 'Advanced' to set. I will highly recommend MP3 because it is widely applied in almost every MP3 player.


Note: To easily locate the output MP3 files, you can set up an output folder first. Just go to 'Options' > 'General'.


Step 5. Start Converting Spotify Music

Now that all is set up, you can simply hit on the green 'Convert' button from the top menu. The program will start converting your Spotify songs to MP3 one by one. The process won't last long unless you have a large amount of Spotify songs to convert.


Step 6. Save Spotify Music to Mobile without Premium

Access to the output folder you've chosen. Then, use the USB cable to connect your Samsung Galaxy S9+ to the computer and move the songs to your smartphone.


After everything is done, you can enjoy the Spotify songs on your device offline anytime anywhere you like, without premium or even without internet connection. You can also copy the converted Spotify music to other MP3 players or music editor as you wish.


Part 3. What's New in Latest Spotify Updates

In a Spotify event in New York on April 24th, Spotify brings many awesome features that non-paying Spotify users have expected for long.


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1. Data Saver

Spotify only enables its paid users to play Spotify music offline. For free subscribers, they can’t download Spotify songs for free so they have to either use Wi-Fi or cellular data to stream songs. In somewhere Wi-Fi connection is not available, streaming music for non-paying Spotify users consumes a lot of cellular data. To optimize this, Spotify released this 'Data Saver' mode to reduce data use when streaming music online. Once Data Saver mode is on, you can save up to 75% data usage when streaming Spotify songs. That's absolutely a great good news for free Spotify users.


2. Shuffle Play Updates

In the past, Spotify users can only stream songs in shuffle mode. But fortunately, you can now play the songs you want and skip when you don't like the song rather than wait till Spotify shuffle to the song you like. There are still some playlists that don't support on-demand play, such as 'Discover Weekly', you will see a blue shuffle icon under the playlist name and a green 'SHUFFLE PLAY' button rather than 'PLAY' button.

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3. On-Demand Playlists

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We all know that Spotify is famous for its superior music recommendation. In the latest update, there are 15 new on-demand playlists that tailored to your personal taste provided based on the selection of favorite artists you pick when signing up. You can also 'like' those you like and 'hide' those you don't.


All these changes in the latest Spotify updates make it easier for Spotify users to enjoy themselves with Spotify better and turn into premium subscribers. That works to some extent, according to the statistic, the new version brings in more engagement and typically grow more paying users.