A little less than a month after giving its Premium subscribers a free Google Home Mini speaker that can be used to stream music, Spotify is now showing some similar love for the subscribers on its free tier (who, it should be noted, vastly outnumber the paid subscribers on a monthly basis — 248 million, compared to 113 million paying).
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Until today, Spotify’s free users weren’t able to stream music on Sonos speakers. That changes as of today, though, with a software update rolling out that allows for access on Sonos to Spotify’s entire catalog via the shuffle feature. Listeners will also be able to access 15 personalized playlists on-demand, including Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and Daily Mix.
Among other key details to know:
- You’ll be able to stream Spotify Free either through the Sonos app or directly from the Spotify app. You can start up playlists with your voice based on their title, genre, or mood via the Google Assistant on a voice-enabled device.
- Add Spotify Free along with one of the other more than 100 streaming services on Sonos to discover even more music and content.
- How to get started: Be sure your Sonos app has been updated to the latest software, then go to Settings > Services > click Add a Service under Music & Content > Set-up or Log-in.
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Given how many tens of millions of users on Spotify’s free tier, this is a great way to support both them as well as users of Sonos speakers. And as if anticipating the next moves of its users, many of whom will be holiday shoppers soon if they aren’t already now that Black Friday is fast approaching, Sonos also took this opportunity to announce some Black Friday deals on products that users will be able to stream their Spotify content on.
These devices will be available at Sonos.com as well as participating retailers nationwide and include the following deals:
Decentralized service. Listening and sharing music within the network. Ability to create. Among other key details to know: You’ll be able to stream Spotify Free either through the Sonos app or directly from the Spotify app. You can start up playlists with your voice based on their.
- Save $140 on Sub, Playbar, and Playbase (Black Friday price: $559, regularly $699)
- Save $120 on Amp(Black Friday price: $479, regularly $599)
- Save $80 on Beam (Black Friday price: $319, regularly $399)
*Black Friday deals available from midnight Eastern Time on November 28 through December 2
Spotify Free users will now be able to stream to Sonos speakers, removing the previous requirement that listeners have a premium account. The update means that Sonos owners can now dip into Spotify’s catalog without having a monthly fee to consider, as well as getting access to the streaming service’s personalized playlists.
Until now, if you wanted Spotify for your Sonos system, you’d need to be a Spotify Premium subscriber. That’s priced at $9.99 per month for an Individual plan, and includes unlimited skips, no advertising, offline playback, and on-demand access to the music catalog.
In contrast, the Spotify Free tier does have some limits. You can access the music catalog on shuffle, for example, and you have access to fifteen personalized, on-demand playlists. That includes the Discover Weekly playlist, Release Radar, and Daily Mix. However there’ll be adverts played periodically, since that’s how the service is supported.
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The biggest limitation to the Spotify Free tier, of course, is the inability to get full search access to the music on the service. Instead, you get that only for select playlists.
All the same, it reduces the cost of entry to Sonos and Spotify functionality, if you’re just getting started. Factor in an affordable IKEA Symfonisk speaker, which is priced from $99 for the bookshelf model, and you can see Sonos’ pitch for the holidays pretty clearly here.
While the IKEA speakers don’t have built-in voice control functionality, others in Sonos’ range – like the Sonos One and Sonos Beam – do. There, you’ll be able to control Spotify Free playback by voice, starting playlists based on title, genre, or mood. Alternatively, if you’ve got a standalone smart speaker you can link that with your Sonos system and control the playback through that instead.
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The update to bring Spotify Free compatibility will be rolling out from today. You’ll need to head into the Sonos app to install it; that will likely offer it as soon as you open the app. After that, you’ll need to add Spotify as a music service: go to Settings, then Services, then Add a Service, then Set-up or Log-in.