Spotify enhances its free plan with music on demand and a data saving mode

The streaming music service Spotify yesterday held an event in New York City with the aim of unveiling a new version of its free plan which has been improved with new features aimed at both users of opgo and those who choose for the free plan in exchange for advertising.

Spotify's free plan, now even better

Spotify's new free plan allows users to select which songs they want to listen to, but they can only choose the songs that are within any of the fifteen selected playlists. These playlists include Daily Mix, Weekly Discovery and others. Until now, users of the free plan were only able to listen to playlists in random mode, with no possibility of choosing songs on demand.

As they point out from TechCrunch, The new option presented by the platform involves around 750 songs and more than forty hours of music that Spotify is offering users of the free level to listen to the letter. In addition, this level of users will also receive recommendations based on their own playlists using machine learning technology that will "study" both the songs included and the name of the playlists. This is what Spotify has termed "assisted playlisting." On the other hand, “free” users will also have access to podcasts and vertical videos.

Nor should we forget that there is a new way to save data that allows data consumption to be reduced "by up to 75 percent". In conclusion, Spotify's head of product development, Babar Zafar, said Spotify's free tier is “getting a lot more like Spotify premium” with this update, although the announcements between songs are maintained.