Wednesday 11 December 2013

Spotify announces free streaming on Android and iPhone, but only in Shuffle mode

Spotify announces free streaming on Android and iPhone, but only in Shuffle mode
Dec 11th 2013, 15:27, by Ellis Hamburger

At an event in New York today, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced a free streaming product on Android and iOS smartphones. "We don't want to make another radio-type service," Ek said. "We want to make something that's really great — that really fits into people's lives." Thus, the focus for Spotify Free on mobile is a Shuffle feature that lets you pick an artist or playlist and hear a stream of shuffled tracks. In other words, the service isn't straightforward ad-supported streaming on-demand, but is instead more random, like Spotify's current Radio feature on mobile for free users.
You can pick an artist or playlist to listen to, but you can't pick which songs you're going to hear, or in what order you'll hear them. And there will be...
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