By There’s a whole lot more to Spotify Premium than exclusive releases, although Premium subscribers do get the chance to listen to releases before other subscribers. You get all the benefits of an Unlimited subscription — no ads, no time restrictions, and international access — plus lots of special features.

When Lady Gaga released her blockbuster new album Born This Way, it was available to users in selected Spotify countries five days ahead of its official release. Although Amazon.com was selling the album online for a mere $.99 in the U.S., Premium subscribers in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, and Spain could to listen to it online at no additional cost.

And thanks to Spotify’s state-of-the-art file-sharing technology, no one’s servers crashed in the process. The Lady Gaga prerelease is just one example of many exclusive offers available to Spotify Premium customers. About once or twice a week, the official Spotify blog gets updated with the latest information about what Premium customers can listen to ahead of anyone else. It isn’t all about Lady Gaga and mainstream acts, either — plenty of indie bands are promoted this way, too. Stream music on your phone with Spotify Premium Spotify now allows everyone to download its app to a compatible mobile device (such as iPhone, Android, iPad, or iPod touch), but unless you’re a Premium user, you can only sync music files you already own to the app. Premium users get to search and stream music from Spotify’s catalogue on a mobile device.

Listen offline on your computer with Spotify Premium Only those users who have a Premium account are privileged enough to sync music from Spotify to their computers for offline listening. Say that you create a playlist featuring songs from your favorite movies. Just click the Offline switch next to the playlist to turn it on, and Spotify starts downloading these tracks to your cache. Next time you’re working in a cafe on your laptop and the cafe’s Wi-Fi access is on the blink, you can still listen to these tracks because they’re synced to your computer. (When Spotify can’t find an Internet connection, you see a broken blue bar with the word Offline at the bottom of your Spotify screen.) The same goes for when you’re abroad, working or playing. Sure, you could always log into your Premium account and listen to Spotify beaming to you over the Internet, but you may have to pay for access — so Offline mode is perfect for this kind of situation.

Listen offline on your cellphone with Spotify Premium Did you download the Spotify app to your mobile phone, iPad, or iPod touch? You can also sync playlists (containing any songs from Spotify’s catalogue) to your device and listen to them when you don’t have any Internet access. Instead of worrying about your phone eating up the monthly allowance on your 3G mobile data plan, you can be in Offline mode, listening to “Singin’ in the Rain” while you dance around in the street. Alternatively, you can be flying over the Pacific Ocean with your phone in Airport mode or sunbathing on the Riviera, well away from any kind of Internet hotspot, and your tracks will still be playable as if you actually owned them and put them on an MP3 player. All offline playlists are downloaded in an encrypted form and are playable only through Spotify, but these tracks can be synced on up to three different devices — so if you’re using Spotify on an additional computer or cellphone, any tracks marked for offline listening sync to that device, too.

You can download up to 3,333 tracks from Spotify’s streaming catalogue for offline listening. (There’s no limit to the number of local files that can be transferred.) High bitrates available through Spotify Premium Those on a Premium plan get to listen to a large proportion of tracks at higher fidelity (320 Kbps, rather than 160 Kbps) meaning you can experience brilliant-quality sound, exactly the way the music was meant to be heard. For those using top-quality speakers to listen to music, this feature could seal the deal. Multiroom listening through Spotify Premium Spotify has struck deals with three of the world’s best sound-system experts to let you listen to your Spotify music from different rooms around the house. Logitech, Onkyo, and Sonos all let you stream music by entering your Spotify Premium credentials.

You can have people listening to different songs in different rooms at the same time! The deals aren’t necessarily exclusive — Sonos, for example, already has an agreement to let people stream songs via Napster at a similar price — but this is just one of many features that you get as a Premium customer. (More importantly, Spotify also streams a large selection of songs at a higher bitrate than Napster.).

Spotify is probably the single most used application to stream music around the world. With the Spotify app, you are able to add songs to your library so that you don’t have to search for them over and over again. For Spotify Premium users, you can even download the songs that you have added to your library for offline listening. The Spotify catalogue is vast with over 30 million songs so far, and is still constantly expanding as new tracks continue to be released.

That begs the question, with millions of songs available at your fingertips, how many can you actually have in your library at any one time? The Spotify Library Limit Image Credit: Cnet The answer is – 10,000 songs. That’s how many you can have in your library under “Your Music”, and for many years, this has been seen as a point of contention for users. For years, the internet has called on Spotify to scrap this limit, and this is a well-discussed issue in many tech portals, forums, and even in Spotify’s own support forums. But Spotify is defending its decision to uphold this limit. In a in its support forums that started way back in 2014, here’s Spotify’s official response: “At the moment we don’t have plans to extend the Your Music limit.

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The reason is because less than 1% of users reach it. The current limit ensures a great experience for 99% of users instead of an “OK” experience for 100%.” So what happens when you do hit the limit? You will simply get the following message, “Epic collection, friend. There’s no more room in Your Library.

To save more, you’ll need to remove some songs or albums.” Image Credit: The Verge Offline Downloads Have A Separate Limit However, that 10,000 song limit is only applicable to the tracks you saved under “Your Music” for online listening. If you are on Spotify Premium and hope to download all of those 10,000 songs for offline listening – tough luck. That’s because Spotify is limiting you to only about a third of them on one device for up to three devices., you are only allowed to download 3,333 tracks per device, for a grand total 9,999 tracks in three different devices – one shy of that magical 10,000.

So, if you are just surviving on your smartphone, you will have to live with a third of your song library. The Argument For Removing That Cap Image Credit: Motherboard Derek Mead of Motherboard wrote a considerably persuasive as to why Spotify should reconsider that track limit in order for the company to grow. Fresh off its billion dollar funding last year, many were excited at what Spotify would bring to its music streaming service. But there were also those who first wanted prevalent issues solved – and the track limit was thrust into the spotlight once again.

Like most of us, Derek is a paying member who has a Spotify Premium account. Unfortunately, he belongs to that 1% of users Spotify was talking about, who have hit 9,999 songs in his library. He laments that because Spotify has grown into a position of dominance, current users of its services might suffer in the long term because Spotify simply refuses to fix simple issues like that track limit. Chris Welch of The Verge also joined the 1% club, as he also shared his take on why Spotify should make the change.

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For him, Spotify should listen to the hardcore users of its service, because the reality is that a 10,000 limit isn’t quite enough for a lifetime of songs if they expect users to use it through their lives – and all it takes for Spotify is a little engineering work. But It Won’t Matter To Everyone Else Daniel Ek, CEO and Founder of Spotify On the other side of the coin, I guess it’s obvious why Spotify won’t budge on this issue – because it simply isn’t affecting a significant enough of users for them to actually make the change. Just look at anyone around you right now, chances are, you won’t find anyone who is anywhere near the 10,000 song limit. While it is worrying that a company is not paying attention to 100% of its users, just making the larger majority happy with new features and song selections makes more business sense.

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Either way, Spotify sits atop the music streaming throne and people will still continue to use it regardless. In the mean time, the company is for its planned expansion into Vietnam and Thailand after a class action suit.

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