Free audiobook listening time for all Premium members

[SamBuzz]

While I'm grateful for the move to bring audiobooks to Spotify, the exclusive benefit of free audiobooks for the "plan manager" in duo and family memberships seems unjust. It diminishes the premium experience for other members who pay the same amount as their friends and family but don't enjoy the full premium benefits. 

I acknowledge the cost-effectiveness of duo and family memberships, but the solution to a fairer listening experience could be to distribute the 15 hours among all members in your party. This way, duo members, for instance, would get 7.5 hours free—a reasonable compromise for the reduced cost.

It ensures fairness to all users and gives users the option to customise their audiobook time based on their plan size and budget.

[Jil3]

Let the other plan member be able to request hours to take from the plan manager hours. So it stays at 15hours monthly in total but they can be shared and then there is the option to get more hours which can be paid for. Which probably still happens, because both started listening to audiobooks and want to continue them. But at least they where both able to start them without the extra costs. Win win?

[toppiethuis]

Absolutely agree with your statement. 

It's a sort of sneaky way of the subscription. As a parent you sign up, sort of controlling your youngsters.

My daughter (under 16) cant be account owner due to her age.

it's wrong.  and needs to be fixed!

[Leya04]

I’m really disappointed to find out that with a Premium Family Plan, only the plan manager gets access to audiobooks. That makes no sense. If I’m paying for a family service, the perks should extend to the family. Right now, it feels like I’m paying for something I don’t even use, while my niece (who actually loves audiobooks) is excluded.

At the very least, give me the option to assign the audiobook access to someone else on the plan. Otherwise, this isn’t really a “family” benefit — it’s a wasted feature for me and a missed opportunity for the people who would actually enjoy it.

[31sizu43444csrqbsbkp]

Make audiobooks available to all members of the family subscription (not just the primary user); if necessary, manually divide the total time among the members per month.

[124313346]

How does it make sense that in a family plan - only 1 person gets access to the "premium" feature of 15 hours of audiobooks.  Not even getting started on limited audiobook listening in light of rising subscription costs, but this is literally the LEAST that spotify could do (enabling sharing that 15 hours amongst the family plan).  

This is a GREEDY choice made by Spotify and only encourages me to cancel and switch to Apple Music.  

[KorryRushton]

My partner and I would like to see another plan option available that includes audiobook hours for both people. We would be willing to pay $20/ month for a plan like that. We went to combine our individual accounts to Spotify Duo, and quickly realized that I would lose access to my audiobooks. We checked out the option audiobooks+ but that was an additional $11.99, so that didn’t make much sense because that’s how much my Spotify account currently costs.

[jb24]

Please, after several years of people asking you to change how audiobook access is applied, will with you reconsider how the hours are applied in duo and family accounts. Asking people to pay an additional £8.99 just to access something they should already have is hideous - it would actually be cheaper to have two separate individual accounts than do this on duo! At a minimum you should have figured out by now how to allow the access to be split as the plan members see fit, or ideally do something like offer each plan member something like 10 hours each. It makes me feel increasingly negative about Spotify, especially when receiving an email to say you are increasing the price but still not fixing this audiobook access issue.

[CrazyComposer]

They don't care about the people. They're supporting **bleep** (Trump)
directly. I would just find another platform if I were you.

[Palmeneigelb]

In the family premium plan, only the plan manager can use the free 10 hours of audio books per month. I am the plan manager, but never listen to audio books. My wife loves audio books, but for her to enjoy them Spotify, I would need to spend 9 EUR on top. Like this, she continues to use Audible instead.

With my idea, the 10 hours per month would be distributed freely among family premium participants. Only exceeding time would need extra payment. Win-Win for all: In our case, my wife would switch from Audible to Spotify, winning Market Share for Spotify, saving some money