{"id":257531,"date":"2018-04-24T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257531"},"modified":"2018-04-24T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:23:48","slug":"spotify-revamps-free-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/257531-spotify-revamps-free-tier.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify revamps free tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify announced it will use machine learning to augment its free-tier service, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/04\/24\/spotify-beefs-up-its-free-tier-as-apple-music-gains-traction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Where users on Spotify&#8217;s free tier have always been limited to shuffle-only play, the service will be modified to allow users to listen to any song that the platform&#8217;s engine recommends.<\/p>\n<p>The music streaming service will learn your tastes and create 15 personalised &#8220;Discovery&#8221; playlists.<\/p>\n<p>This totals around 750 tracks, or over 40 hours of music, for free on-demand streaming.<\/p>\n<p>It will use\u00a0existing user-made playlists, including the songs in those playlists and the name of the playlists themselves, to create recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>You will then be able to listen to any track in your discovery playlists as many times as you want.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/256629-the-most-popular-tracks-on-spotify-south-africa.html\">The most popular tracks on Spotify South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify will use machine learning to augment its free-tier service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":252025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[7927],"class_list":["post-257531","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\/257531"}],"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=257531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257539,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257531\/revisions\/257539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}