


Paying for premium also removes adverts, improves music quality and lets users download tracks, albums and playlists to their mobile devices. Spotify announced at the start of August that, in the coming few weeks, separate play and shuffle buttons will be added to the top of albums and playlists in the iOS and Android apps, giving premium subscribers the option to ignore Spotify’s tendency to shuffle tracks. You also can’t download music as a non-paying customer, the audio quality isn’t as high as with the premium tier, and you can only listen abroad for 14 days.

While the 82 million-track music catalogue is available in full, adverts play after every few songs, and on mobile apps you can’t pick whatever song you like instead, choosing a specific song to play is only available within specific playlists. Although Spotify can be enjoyed for free, there are quite a few restrictions in place.
