One of the advantages of having a Spotify Premium account is being able to take your music anywhere you go, thanks to the iPhone and Android apps that sync your device with your Spotify music collection. As of today, the popular music service has decided to make this feature available to everyone, meaning any Spotify user – no Premium account needed – can install the Spotify app on their mobile phone and enjoy their favorite playlists on the go.
Everyone, seriously? Yes. The catch is that the playlist syncing feature is not free. You pay for every single MP3 file you sync with your mobile phone, starting at €9.99 for a 10-track playlist (€1 each), up to €60 for a 100-track playlist (€0.60 each track, cheaper than iTunes). Note that these prices are only for Spain – we don’t have reliable prices for other locations yet. In any case, they seem pretty reasonable rates.
But that’s not all. Besides the free-for-all mobile apps and the all-new MP3 download service, Spotify has also announced that from now on you’ll be able to seamlessly manage and sync any iPod right inside Spotify. Simply connect the iPod to the computer and it’ll appear on the Spotify sidebar, under the new ‘Devices’ section.
All these new features will be rolled out to users in an automatic update, coming up in the next few days. With this new version, Spotify has taken an important step towards becoming the only app you’ll need to manage, organize and listen to your favorite music, whether you use a computer, a mobile phone or an iPod. We can’t wait to try the new version… and to see what iTunes is going to do about it!
