Spotify Family

RoyMi6 · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:47

Did a search and there wasn't an obvious thread about this.

In addition it doesn't appear to have had much press, but since the end of last year Spotify have added a "family" subscription that gets your 50% off any additional subscriptions.

Going to get me, the girlfriend and my dad signed up. Save us some pennies.

https://www.spotify.com/uk/family

EDIT: The small print!

How it works

You can only invite people who are not current Premium subscribers and reside at the same physical address as you.

1. You invite people to join your Spotify Family using our handy tool.
2. They accept, and follow some simple instructions to become part of your happy Family.

So "can't" sign up my dad

molinari · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:53

I did wonder why they didn't do something like this ages ago, but my wife and I will probably still share one account.

RoyMi6 · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:57

molinari said:
I did wonder why they didn't do something like this ages ago, but my wife and I will probably still share one account.

Tried this in the past but ultimately our music tastes are too different.

Also doesn't help when we're both at work and try to listen to some music and it kicks one of us out!

ci_newman · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:00

Having "individual" subscriptions rather than a household service was a silly idea in the first place. A family of four isn't going to pay £30/m or 4 x £10/m for a streaming music service when Netflix / Prime allow multiple logins on the same account and are both cheaper.

meandu229 · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:22

Or you could become a student for ~£9 and get a nus card for £13 (£22) and get 50% off each month, saving you £60 per year (minus £21) for card then you also get all the other nus discounts.

RoyMi6 · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:23

How do you "become a student" for £9...?

meandu229 · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:35

RoyMi6 said:
How do you "become a student" for £9...?

Buy something like
http://www.hereforaday.com/national-UK/49211-ecareers which is the one Im personally "doing". Buy that you will get voucher instantly, Redeem voucher then sign up for an NUS extra card (also get a free ISIC card too) Mine hasnt arrived yet just ordered this morning but I can track it and already have my NUS card number.

Skeeter · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:57

It is an oversite that you can't merge an existing Premium subscriber into your subscription. For the OP I assume his dad would have to cancel his subscription, and then once it ends and he drops back to being a Free user he can then be invited into the Family.

I was going to do this for the GF but she refuses to move off her stupid 500mb mobile plan so its pretty pointless with that.

RoyMi6 · 21 Apr 2015 at 15:12

Skeeter said:
It is an oversite that you can't merge an existing Premium subscriber into your subscription. For the OP I assume his dad would have to cancel his subscription, and then once it ends and he drops back to being a Free user he can then be invited into the Family.

Technically the problem is he doesn't live at the same address as me. Just depends how moral you want to be about the situation I suppose.

But yeah, GF is going to have to cancel her premium subscription then I'll try and add her on. Pretty annoying that I can't just invite her and it tells her this will cancel her own subscription.

Skeeter said:
I was going to do this for the GF but she refuses to move off her stupid 500mb mobile plan so its pretty pointless with that.

I'm a pretty heavy internet user on my phone but even I don't hit the 500MB cap I gave myself because I'm ALWAYS connected to WiFi (home, work, friends houses)

With Spotify on the mobile it works really well because you just set all your playlists to "available offline" and change the network settings to "only sync when connected to WiFi". This way it never hits your mobile data and all you need to do is sync your playlist before leaving the house.

We do this all the time for road trips by sharing a "driving" playlist between us that's sync to our phones.

Skeeter · 21 Apr 2015 at 17:01

Unfortunately she has a phone with small internal storage and no SD slot either

Psycho Sonny · 21 Apr 2015 at 18:09

molinari said:
I did wonder why they didn't do something like this ages ago, but my wife and I will probably still share one account.

+1

RoyMi6 said:
Tried this in the past but ultimately our music tastes are too different.

Also doesn't help when we're both at work and try to listen to some music and it kicks one of us out!

Your doing it wrong.

Download all the music you want to listen to your device then stick it in offline mode.

Me and the wife use ours both at the same time listening to two completely different tracks and all for £5 per month which is £10 cheaper a month than using this family service.

You can use 1 account on 3 devices so I could add someone else onto my £5 a month account (student sub).

RoyMi6 · 22 Apr 2015 at 11:14

Psycho Sonny said:
Your doing it wrong.

Download all the music you want to listen to your device then stick it in offline mode.

Me and the wife use ours both at the same time listening to two completely different tracks and all for £5 per month which is £10 cheaper a month than using this family service.

You can use 1 account on 3 devices so I could add someone else onto my £5 a month account (student sub).

The problem is just how fluid we are when listening to music - we both can never cope with the restriction of just listening to the music we sync ahead of time (although we put up with it in a car journey) and quite often link each other new tracks we find throughout the day.

Ultimately we use it enough to justify the cost so this family subscription looks like a win for us.

Psycho Sonny · 22 Apr 2015 at 17:35

The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't have every song ever made.

it's like the whole streaming tv services debacle where to get get as much content as possible you need to be subscribed to now tv, netflix and prime.

i wish they just let all companies access all music and none of this owning the rights to distibute malarkey as then effectively they have a monopoly on that one artist/tv show.