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Questions about subscriptions

TECH101 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:04:01 GMT

Hi all..

I have a few "mis-coceptions" about Spotify accounts..

On the comparision page. these are listed seperatly "Take your music abroard" and "Play music from Spotify on your mobile"

Arn't these two the same ? The only difference, is the device your playing it on,, a computer vs a mobile...

But your still abroard.

Also, can you clear up what "Offline mode" is ?

It sounds like tracks/songs are cached to your device/computer ...... is there is truly no internet.... am I correct ?

Finally, why did Spotify choose .OGG format ? i.e Better compression than AAC, deter people from playback anywhere. etc.. ?

Re: Questions about subscriptions

Peter__ — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:10:11 GMT

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂

I am not a member of the Spotify team so I can't offer you an official answer to any of these but I will do my best.

Spotify premium and unlimited allow you to take your music abroad for an unlimited amount of time. This means that not matter where you are in the world, you will be able to use your Spotify account. Free accounts can only go abroad for 14 days before they loose access to playback.

Spotify on mobile is different to being abroad, where mobile refers to mobile devices in this case. To use your Spotify account on any mobile phone or tablet, you need a premium subscription.

Offline mode allows you to sync and download tracks so that you can access them inside the Spotify client when you don't have an internet connection.

As far as I am aware, Spotify uses the OGG format as it offers good quality for relatively small filesize. It also has different quality settings which they can use. For example, high quality streaming (q9 - 320kbps) is only available to premium subscribers.

Peter

Re: Questions about subscriptions

mooray — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:19:36 GMT

Hi...

I'm a bit confused - with which (if any) type of account can you listen to music without buying the specific track?

Thanks....

Mooray

Re: Questions about subscriptions

Peter__ — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:24:57 GMT

@mooray wrote:

Hi...

I'm a bit confused - with which (if any) type of account can you listen to music without buying the specific track?

Thanks....

Mooray

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂

You can listen to tracks from the online Spotify catalogue without buying the tracks with any subscription plan, including free. You can view the benifets of each plan by looking at the comparison table on this page.

Peter