Overview

• Free users can now play specific tracks via three features—Pick & Play, Search & Play, and Share & Play—with a global rollout that began September 15.
• Spotify says free accounts get a set amount of “on‑demand time” each day; after hitting the limit, listening reverts to the prior model with shuffle and limited skips.
• Lossless audio, AI tools like AI Playlists and Mix, offline downloads, ad‑free listening, and unlimited skips remain exclusive to Premium subscribers.
• The update also broadens free access to tools including real‑time lyrics, personalized playlist covers in 128 markets, daylist, and discovery playlists like Discover Weekly and Release Radar.
• The move follows last week’s lossless launch for Premium and aligns with efforts to grow the ad‑supported business across a base of roughly 433 million free users out of 696 million monthly active users.