Proper now, it’s getting costlier to make use of the world’s hottest music streaming service. Spotify simply raised its costs in a number of international locations, nevertheless it may not be completed siphoning your pockets. Based on Cellphone Area, Spotify may cost you to see track lyrics.
In case you don’t know, Spotify raised the worth for Premium a number of months in the past. The bottom worth for Spotify was $9.99/month. Nevertheless, the corporate raised the worth to $10.99/month for a single consumer. That’s not an enormous bounce, nevertheless it’s nonetheless extra money leaving its customers’ pockets every month.
Now, Spotify might cost you to see track lyrics
Quite a lot of the time, folks like to take a look at the lyrics of their favourite songs. That is enjoyable, particularly since Spotify has a stay lyrics mode. This mode highlights the present lyrics within the track. YouTube Music just lately adopted a characteristic like this.
Nevertheless, it seems just like the pleasure of studying lyrics together with the track gained’t be for everybody for much longer. Some Spotify customers reported attempting to entry the lyrics for his or her songs just for the app to inform them to enroll in Premium.
They’d get a message saying “Get pleasure from lyrics on Spotify Premium”, they usually’d see a button beneath it to take them to get a subscription. This isn’t seen for everybody on the platform, we haven’t seen it on our accounts.
The Verge reached out to Spotify for remark, and the corporate’s co-head of world communications, CJ Stanley, said that the corporate is “presently testing this with a restricted variety of customers in a pair of markets.”
So, at this level, we don’t know if Spotify goes to make this an official change. It would rely on how unhealthy of a reception this transformation will get from the testing crowd. Clearly, this gained’t go over nicely with anybody. Nobody needs to pay for a characteristic that was beforehand free. In any case, it stays to be seen whether or not Spotify will undergo with this or not; solely time will inform.