Wannabe Spotify users rejoice – the company have announced they’ve removed the invitation only restriction and now anyone can sign-up for the groundbreaking music application.
The new service is called Spotify Open but there is a snag though – new sign-ups for Spotify Open will have their listening time limited to 20 hours per month.
Spotify estimate this works out to around 25 albums or 300 tracks per month. The changes don’t affect current users of the free service and new Premium sign-ups still of course have unlimited listening time.
If Spotify Open users want to listen to music after they have reached their 20 hour limit, they have two options:
- Sign-up for Spotify Premium which allows unlimited listening on both computer and mobile device for €10 a month
- Sign-up for Spotify Unlimited which allows unlimited listening on computer only for €5 a month
However, it’s worth noting that invitations do still work and those who access the service via an invitation from a current user won’t be subject to a listening time cap every month so there is still an advantage of being invited.
I was completely blown away when I first tried Spotify early last year and if you haven’t been able to get an invite yet, you should definitely sign-up for Spotify Open today to see what you’re missing. Or you could always convince our Editor Tom to give you an invite like these users have. 🙂
