- Spotify is the upgrade is a free level for the first time in seven years
- Now users can press and read any song they want in a reading list, or using the search bar
- These improvements are designed to give users more reading control, but they still lack fun premium features
The free level of Spotify offers users a small dose of the advanced features that the platform has to offer, and despite its limited features and the presence of ads, Spotify is free that most people start before engaging in a premium subscription. Now the musical streaming service improves its free experience – and has been expected for a long time.
Hot on the Lanking Spotify Lossless, Spotify improves its free experience with new features that give you more control over music and podcasts you listen to. The current free level was launched in 2018, so this deployment marks the first major upgrade for free users in seven years, emphasizing the improvement of control functions in the application.
The upgrade takes place to users around the world from today, and you can choose what you want to listen to by simply pressing a song in a reading list or via the search bar, offering you more flexibility and control over your listening experience.
Before the new update, users had little or no choice on what to play and when, because it was mainly an experience of mixtures, and similar restrictions also applied to shared songs on social networks.
Listening to songs that others have shared with other social platforms came with its own limits, and free users could not play them immediately. Instead, they were put in a reading list and an overview loop, which led to a lot of frustration with the social sharing experience. With the new upgrade, users can now press a song that a friend has shared on their social media page and jump directly.
According to Spotify, these free level upgrades do not more than simply give users more control over what they listen to. It facilitates simple tasks such as the conservation of reading lists and the navigation of features like Discover Weekly easier, which makes the experience of streaming global more personal.
This also applies to Spotify wrapped, which the company approached during the live announcement, saying: “Spotify wrapped obviously shows you your most listened songs, so when you have more control over what you play and when, we think that Spotify wrapped will become even more precious.”
What is still missing at the free Spotify level?
The free Spotify service is about to become even more manageable and pleasant for users – even if these new features should have always been available in its free version. That said, a plethora of features is always missing – including the popular DJ AI of Spotify.
Now that the company has started paying slightly No more attention to its free version, I wonder if this new upgrade will open the valves for other practical features to reach free level.
During the Livestream of Spotify, I asked questions about this, and Spotify said to me: “This change really consists in improving the free basic experience and giving our listeners more control so that we can better respond to their uses around the overall listening experience. That being said, in Spotify, we always seek to improve and see the features. But in this update, we simply focused on these specific improvements.
Although it is great for free users to obtain a small taste for advanced features loved by millions of premium members, it does not surprise that Spotify preserves most of them to pay subscribers only – in this way, more free users will be likely to yield to temptation and register for Premium.