Pretty simply, Spotify has changed their family plan pricing from a $17.99 for two accounts + extra $$ for each extra account to a flat $17.99 for up to 6 accounts.
If you already have a family plan, just add up to another 4 accounts or if not, might be a good time to merge them. If you're entrepreneurial, you could get 5 mates and pay $3.00 each!
Details on their blog page: https://news.spotify.com/au/2016/05/23/spotify-family-plan-g…
because…?
because it will not succeed.
I think because most people get a YouTube Red experience by installing an ad block extension. Patreon already exists if you want to directly support your favourite YouTube channels.
I don't understand why Google Play Music and Youtube Red use English song name for Chinese songs?
My phone in English Language doesn't mean I want the song in English name.
That is why I still use Spotify.
Full price can still be a bargain if it's cheaper than what it was.
Don't be rude mate, this will save people a bundle of money.
It is about half the price that it was for this number of accounts/users.
Awesome, setting it up now with 5 other mates. 3.60 a month instead of 12… awesome
Is it really to be a family?
Nope, just whoever you invite to be attached to your account. I had the family plan going with my wife and daughter, so it was costing about $25 or so per month, so this new pricing structure has saved me a bunch. I have also added a friend of mine to the account and it went though no worries.
I had two account but we were always facing sharing issues with the kids listening too. Now I can just set up their own profiles/accounts.
Everytime I think I've had enough of Spotify, something comes along that makes it hard to move (besides the 100's of playlists to re-create!).
Now I just need a deal on some mates!
Strapless silicon bra was the first thing i saw…………….. hmmm…
did you buy one?
I need a bigger family to make the most of this deal.
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Of all the lousy jokes jv has made, this one has to rank somewhere in the middle.
Welcome to last week. Shouldn't this be in the forums?
How'd you get $3.60? It'd be $3 between six people.
Ha! Thanks for the pick-up. I divided by 5 for some reason. Need more coffee. Fixed in OP.
By being "entrepreneurial", OP means you charge five people $3.60 each for a membership, therefore getting your own membership covered by them for free.
Until Spotify listen to their users and fix their Roku application, they are not getting any more of my money.
In my experience Spotify doesn't listen to anyone, one of my huge issues with their service.
I've reported mislabelled music multiple times; it never gets fixed. You'd think the label or artist would want it fixed so as not to dilute their product.
As a former subscriber, when I went to their forums to let them know their Roku application just doesn't work, there were posts from people years ago saying the same thing. They don't care so I promptly cancelled my subscription.
@dogboy: I know right… Have they stopped installing into AppData for all users?! Talk about "sharing" music - can we "share" an installation ffs?!?
@ryang: Nope, still installed to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Spotify, although I have moved the cache to D:\Spotify and I share that between users.
@downforce: I pissed a whole heap of people off when I blacklisted apps from running from AppData … On a related note, you can run Spotify completely from the browser…. :)
@ryang: Yeah, and I even pinned it "as an app" so it runs almost like the real app, except it didn't accept playback controls from my mouse - so I went back to the client.
Am I the only one experiencing issues with their app? It always closes while playing a song. It doesn't seem to happen with YouTube red though.
I get that often on Android. I assumed it was just the memory manager cleaning it up - but I haven't been able to fix it.
Same, esp when my phone is getting hammered with other apps, looking at you Snapchat, and sometimes Google Play updates.
I assumed the same, re: memory manager, but I don't believe there is a way to change the priority anymore.
I often find it pauses music for no reason during playback. It's less buggy at crashing than it used to be on iOS. My biggest issue at the moment is that when I set it to offline mode it keeps switching it back to online and phoning home. It used to only do this after a few weeks offline.
never happened for me (iphone handset)
This is why competition is good
This came out the day I was switching to Google Play Music for the same reason. Very clever of Spotify :P
Apparently there's a google music family plan as well yeah? I can't seem to access the subscription page for family….only allows me to sign up as a regular one-user account…
Here's the tutorial from Google :) Quite strange that you can't do it on a browser or iOS device, you need an Android device…
Open the Play Music app on your Android device Google Play Music Icon. You can't set up a family from an iOS device or a browser.
In the top left corner, touch the Menu icon Google Play Music Menu icon.
Touch Subscribe > Family > Set up family > Get started > Continue.
To continue, you need to add a family payment method which family members can use to make purchases. You can either select an existing credit card, or add a new one.
Touch Accept.
Invite members to your family. Make sure you only invite trusted family members since you'll be responsible for purchases they make with the family
payment method.
Touch Invite > Continue > Continue > Subscribe.
Touch Continue > Continue music purchase.
Select the payment method you want to use for your family's subscription.
Touch Subscribe.
When new people join your family, you'll get an email confirmation.
Can you get Youtube Red for the family?
EDIT: Just asked Google Support Chat and was told:
That's a great question! YouTube Red is technically not included in the Google Play Music Family plan, however, if you have a subscription for the family plan, you will also gain access and features for YouTube Red.
At $3.60 a piece, this is how you kill music piracy :)
If only we could get netflix HD for $5/m AUD, we would be almost there.
Clearly you're doing it wrong….
Netflix HD 4 channels = $14.99AUD month.. $15/4 = $3.75/screen/month ..
Well, already knew that, but not many people like Netflix as the content is fairly old unless its an exclusive like Daredevil.
And normally Netflix only release in completed series rather then per new episode. Comparing Netflix(AU) to Spotify is unfair as i feel more people prefer music in general over Netflix content.
Where you could easily find 6 people to split for spotify, its a bit harder imo to find users to split Netflix.
Anyone know if you can consolidate multiple pre-setup accounts into the "family" account? I have several friends that might be interested but we all have our individual accounts already.
I can't give you a full answer as I've not had a billing cycle. I jumped onto my brother's family account and I got a token via email. Clicking and agreeing to join the family it said that my subscription expires at the next pay date and I was swapped over to the family membership immediately. You don't get a refund for any unused time of your membership.
Cheers, just trying to figure out how this all works with getting this set up with friends
Simply: you just invite them by email, they click to join, Spotify works it all out automatically with how to handle remaining premium time etc.
It gives you the regular billing date (or the date of when it takes effect).
Yes you can. You just your current premium subscription and then someone subscribed o family and they get a code, the other user enters the code to get added.
whats the best way to implement this? get 5 mates to each funds transfer you 36 bucks each, and then just pay it urself for a year…?
Get them to set up an automatic monthly payment into your account.
This is great new, but when they call it family i presume its not just family, we have 2 accounts currently me and the wife so i guess jumping onto this family plan will already save us money. However with the extra 4 accounts we have is it just as simple as getting your 4 mates to be part of it and everyone has their profiles ? Is there any privacy concerns or caveats to sharing your profile with mates ?
keen to know this too, obviously as well as if there's any global restrictions
From what I heard, all users get their own accounts… whether pre-existing accounts can be put into a family group is something im trying to work out.
Each user has to have their own account, even before being added to a Family Plan but they have to be "Free" accounts. If you have two and want a third, sign up with a new email then you can be included.
Each account still operates totally independently except for billing.
So if you and your wife already have 2 Premium accounts, chose who will be the "Master" account and cancel the Premium on the other. You'll lose any unused balance so you may wish to wait until end of the billing cycle (I didn't for what worked out ~$5 - how un-OzB of me!).
Once the second account is Free, go to Family plan settings on the website and invite them, I used email for mine as it was easier but it might accept usernames - not sure here. You get a link with an invite code and they follow the link and get added.
Now the caveat for all that want to share with friends is that the "master" account has full control over the other accounts. For example:
We had a billing issue and Spotify somehow managed to duplicate my wife's account and was being charged twice. I had the authority to delete all/any accounts/playlists and even make a new one on her behalf. You better trust your friends! Or they trust you!
The other thing they don't tell you is your email is the unique identifier and updates aren't instant. I lost my first account as I wanted to disconnect my FB from Spotify so I changed the email, then deleted the account, except when I tried to sign up it said the email was in use so I couldn't use either of those emails for Spotify! Lucky I have my own domain so I could pick anything!!! Support managed to bring my playlists to the account with the 3rd email though, so not all was lost.
Hope this helps.
Thanks mate great help. It kinda sucks then because like you said there is a master account that can control everything, including billing. Will be hard to get friends in unless they totally trust you.
Some other questions.
In the event you cancel one of the premium accounts what happens to their playlists, their subscriptions, follows etc..etc is everything intact and its just demoted to free. Or do you lose everything you have built up till now ?
When you say the email is the unique identifier and the updates are not instant, does that mean if my wife disconnects her account she cant be added back in the family pack with the same email account at all, or is there is a period of time you need to wait ? Please elaborate on this point.
And i guess i see your point with the universal playlists, but in terms of privacy that is all it would be right they cant someone be authorized to view your facebook profile or posts or anything like that ?
If you cancel premium, you revert to free and your playlists etc stay as they are. If you cancel the account then that account is 'lost' however Spotify Support can move them to another account if you want.
This relates more if you change your email associated with your account. Probably for 99% of people it won't be an issue ;)
@downforce: Ok so just to clarify on your first point. If you revert to free everything stays as is, but then its possible for the master account eg ME to invite that same email address (which is now reverted to free) into the family plan with no problems ?
You'll lose any unused balance so you may wish to wait until end of the billing cycle (I didn't for what worked out ~$5 - how un-OzB of me!).
In my experience, no, it splits up the remaining premium time with the rest of your "family" before the plan takes effect.
Is it possible to spit the amount into 6 difference direct debit?
You know if share with friends it is quite annoying to get $3 from them every months :p
lol set up a new account and have spotify take it from there? TBH, just ask them to set up auto transfers payable to you at the start of each month.
I've told family members to pay me up front. $36 for a years subscription then setup an auto debit on my CC (which also earns me points)
I'm sure someone will be able to tell you how to maximise your efforts…
Good deal. I've been waiting for the pricing to come down since release. This is perfect!
$17.99 USD or AUD?
AUD, spotify family is 15USD lol
My VPN provider (getflix) doesn't have a Filipino VPN available… anyone have ay solutions to get around this?
They must be trying to combat Youtube Red (which has free G Music).