{"id":252075,"date":"2018-03-13T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252075"},"modified":"2018-03-13T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:14:40","slug":"the-difference-between-spotify-free-and-spotify-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/252075-the-difference-between-spotify-free-and-spotify-premium.html","title":{"rendered":"The difference between Spotify Free and Spotify Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotify.com\/za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has launched in South Africa, with two plans on offer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spotify Free<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R0 per month.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spotify Premium<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 R59.99 per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The music streaming service is very popular internationally, and the company said it has 159 million active users &#8211; including over 71 million Spotify Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>At R59.99 per month, however, should you join the ranks of the Free users, or upgrade to the Premium tier?<\/p>\n<p>The basic differences between Spotify Free and Spotify Premium are listed below to help you decide.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Free vs Premium<\/h3>\n<p>While both plans let you listen to your favourite music, there are several major differences between them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\"><strong>Features<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\"><strong>Spotify Free<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\"><strong>Spotify Premium<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Shuffle Play<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Advertisement-Free<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Unlimited Skips<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Listen Offline<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Play Any Track<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>High-Quality Audio<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Streaming quality<\/h3>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.spotify.com\/is\/using_spotify\/system_settings\/high-quality-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spotify&#8217;s support page<\/strong><\/a>, its music is streamed at different qualities &#8211; depending on which device you use.<\/p>\n<p>Only Premium subscribers have access to high-quality streaming, while Free users can only listen to standard quality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Standard\/Normal Quality<\/strong> &#8211; 160kbit\/s Desktop \/ 128kbit\/s Web Player \/ 96kbit\/s iPhone and iPad \/\u00a096kbit\/s Android.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-Quality<\/strong> &#8211; 320kbit\/s Desktop \/ 256kbit\/s Web Player \/ 160-320kbit\/s iPhone and iPad \/\u00a0160-320kbit\/s Android.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/252067-apple-acquires-digital-magazine-service-texture.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple acquires digital magazine service Texture<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify\u00a0has launched in South Africa, with two plans on offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":228599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[7927],"class_list":["post-252075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252079,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252075\/revisions\/252079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}