Tell me about Spotify for my teenage daughter please.

[Sasaferrato]

Rolls eyes.

[Sarcasm]oh thanks[/Sarcasm]

All right you sarky git , why wouldn't that work?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Thank you everyone, this has been extremely helpful.

Except me presumably.

 

[mwgdrwg]

How about other services? For example, there's a 1 month free trial of Apple Music available.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Thank you everyone, this has been extremely helpful.

Are you sure?

 

[pogofish]

How does the app know your subscription has ended if you have downloaded tunes and are using them offline?

Thirty days after your subscription ends - Or if you haven't checked-in online, it deletes everything incl downloads.

I found this when a bug prevented my renewal from going through this year. Lost everything, downloads, playlists, favourites etc..!

 

[maomao]

I found this when a bug prevented my renewal from going through this year. Lost everything, downloads, playlists, favourites etc..!

That's a bit odd. Downloads would undoubtedly disappear but stuff like favourites ands playlists follow me around from device to device. I have playlists I made on a work pc 8 years ago and they are available on a tablet I bought last week.

 

[pogofish]

How about other services? For example, there's a 1 month free trial of Apple Music available.

Everyone I know with Apple Music seems to have a decidedly ambivalent relationship with it!

Amazon Music - I only have the free version but you can see what's on the paid and overall, despite Amazon's claim to be bigger, for the sort of stuff I listen to, its choice is far poorer than Spotify. Also, where Spotify's algorithm seems to always throw-up interesting new music or something in the "that's good, I haven't heard it for ages" category, Amazon's seems determined to throw-up everything I detest most strongly or never wanted to hear again - and their run-on from playlists always seems to degenerate to Neil Diamond, no matter what you started-off listening to!

 

[pogofish]

That's a bit odd. Downloads would undoubtedly disappear but stuff like favourites ands playlists follow me around from device to device. I have playlists I made on a work pc 8 years ago and they are available on a tablet I bought last week.

It might have been because my paid account was managed through my phone company (£3 a month cheaper) but when that expired, It reverted to my original account that I'd signed-up for when I had the free version, then the free trial. I think some of my oldest favourites remained, even though that artist's early albums were no longer on Spotify.

Some things - like friends seem to stay on one device as well. I have a different set on my PC/work Mac compared to my phone, although that's maybe because I never enabled or disabled that level of sharing in the account settings?

The auto-generated content returned in stages over a couple of weeks as well.

In the to and fro over the faulty renewal, I began to get the strong impression that their system was set-up to try and force you over to a paid account after your cheaper two years sub had finished and choose some other entertainment service instead. - but I persisted!

 

[pogofish]

I thought Spotify was free if you are OK with adverts.

It is but as well as adverts, you have much more limited functionality - and the adverts are geolocated, so you do get them kicking-off when you are near any McDs/Starbucks/Costa etc.