Signed in on 2 devices; How to tell when one is playing

[Andihawes]

To all

i have Spotify Premium on my and my wife's phone. i cant play both at the same time it would seem. How on one device can i tell when the other device is playing? as we are 100s of miles apart, it would be good to see if the other is using the service. Using at the same time seems to allow us both intermittent use with interruptions as it seems to play from one device and then back to the other.

both using iPhone 5 [original, not s or c]

[MichaelJerzak]

I don't think there really is a way to tell, other than direct communication between you and your wife to let each other know when one is going to use it to listen to music

[jeremygoh]

Unfortunately, Spotify operates on a per-user subscription model, so each Spotify premium account is really meant to be used by one person only (and one device at a time), so you can only stream from one device at a time. If you wanted to be able to stream in both rooms, you would have to have two separate Premium subscriptions.

A workaround, however, is to save your playlists to be available offline on your devices. Depending on the device you are using, there should be an "Available Offline" button in the playlist something. This will download those upbeat or peaceful tracks to the device, which you can then play freely by going into your device and entering Offline Mode (off the top of my head, in iPhone you can access this under Settings>Playback>Offline Mode. Now that device is offline and can play music saved offline simultaneously with the streaming device.