Device Limit Only for Offline?

[iRooney]

Okay, so I have only been a Spotify subscriber for like 24 hours, but I have a question.  I know there is a 3 device limit for offline syncing.  Does this apply ONLY to offline syncing?  What I mean is....I have a laptop, iPad, and 2 iPhones.  The laptop will never do offline syncing....the iPad will rarely do offline syncing, and the iPhones probably will do a bunch.  Does the 3 device limit apply to the Spotify account altogether or just the offline portion?  I don't intend to be using all 4 devices simultaneously (I understand that you can only stream to one at a time), but I don't want my iPhone to be wiped out because I decided to use the Spotify Mac app for a few minutes.   I probably made this sound confusing, but any help would be appreciated anyway.

[Stupify · Accepted solution]

It's only if you make songs available offline. Don't touch the offline playlist feature in your 4th app and you should be fine.

[iRooney]

Awesome. Thanks a bunch.

[axpress]

Frankly its daft, and the more they restrict us, the more they end up with a negative effect of encouraging piracy. I use my account on over 3 devices, depending on where I am, phone, ipod, laptops, media centre, you name it. But, it really pisses me off that it deletes the offline content. Why can't it just 'disable' it until I reactivate that device as an offline device, saving me having to redownload everything. Really irritating, as I use the offline access for when I have very slow internet (at home) or on the move, with no internet.

[styxgeist]

And this is the reason why I've dumped my Spotify Premium subscription for Google All Access Music which allows you to have upto 10 Authorised devices added to it. And so begins the slippery slope of Spotify's demise.

[cheshire137]

If Google All Access ever gets an iOS app, I'll drop Spotify in a hot minute. I need an excellent mobile app since I listen to so much music in the car, and the Spotify iOS app has been barely tolerable because it's so slow (this is on a 4S and compared to other iOS apps). This morning I got an alert about having to reenable offline access on my device, which resulted in me having to kill the app to get rid of the alert. Then I discovered all my offline tracks had been deleted on my phone. The phone is the one place I need those offline tracks because driving around, 3G is unreliable. Soooo annoyed with Spotify right now. If Google isn't fast enough with their iOS app release, I'll just go to Rdio.