I agree. musicians should just work for free. they should give us free music.

do you mean it's a good day for breaking off contracts?:wink:

Just renewed for a month yesterday which was a pain, id love to use this but cba with the hassle of creating multiple accounts and having to re-sign into all my devices each few months!

Just wish they would do a deal for existing customers rather than just want to drive their userbase up!

Yeah, time to upgrade everything!

Cancelled, it lets you keep the premium features til last date.

Obviously not for free, but not for millions either.
Its like a blogger wanting every one who reads it to pay you £1 per 20 lines!

See, I would take something ending on the 2nd as ending at 23:59:59 on the 2nd.

Regardless, it's ended, so will just use my Apple Music free trial instead :man:

Edit: As an aside, these have all appeared in the last 30 mins of using the app. Great job Spotify....no really.

Still the 2nd, so should still be active, but nothing showing for me.:disappointed:

Showing for me (logged out) at https://www.spotify.com/uk

Hi, just type in Spotify.com
It's literally on the home page (for me anyway)
:smiley:

Is this still available? Can't find it anywhere...

If I try the make a new account and follow my old playlist do I need to use a new PayPal email as my old one has been used with my current account?

that happened to to me when using my Amex for some reason but when I used my Visa it went through without a problem

It can't be because I always make small purchases from other retailers

I keep getting this messsge "Oops, seems your card or payment provider is having a bad day. Don't worry, no money has been charged. Try again or use another payment method."

I only get that message when trying to sign up via an offer or student discount..at full price it goes straight through....

Now ends on the 31st of December!

Er doesn't the date trick work any longer?. Sign up at the correct current date, go to phone, tablet or PC settings and switch off automatic date and time and switch the date back say 10 or 20 years?.

I just tried it on my tablet on the 7 day trial, changed the date and premium days remaing have gone up to 5000 odd on the main screen!. Of cause, still might deactivate after 7 days or 3 months, but might be worth trying if your not on a correct date vital device?.

Is there an easy way to transfer account info via some kind of web app? I have an old account and wouldnt mind easily copying the saved LPs across.

Couldn't get this to work. Created a new account, paid by paypal, confirmed payment, but it just spit me back into the offers page without taking my money.

​it's only valid on new accounts and the deal expires in January

£5 a month to play music that I do not own, and might not use the service for a few weeks on end is more than enough. It's not that I can't afford £10 a month, but it's just not worth it for me tbh. It would make more business sense for them to get £60 a year out of me than £0. I suspect that this could be multiplied millions of times?

I use the chromecast app - find your chromecast and click on the settings cog, then check for offers. Your chromecast had to be switched on for this to work.

If you have a chromecast you don't have to pay the 99p - go to Chromecast offers... :smiley:

You might get the £20 of Google play credit too - mine shows this offer and is a year old. Same terms and conditions for trial though - can't be a premium subscriber or have had one recently/at all?

I cancelled my account and opened a new 1 with new email.
Working fine and 99p!

U DNT NEED TO CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT IF U NEVER HAD PREMIUM TRIAL!
I had spotify for quite some time now but never tried premium so it allowed me to active this at 99p :smiley:

It's simple laws of demand.
Demand at £5 is more than twice it is at £10.
100 sales at £5 is better than 40 at £10, especially when there's no extra cost to them when nothing is produced (costs of production for both will be almost identical).
I for one would never pay £10 a month, but £5 is more swallowable (although when there's 99p deals all year round, as well as the perfectly functional web player for PC there's not much point).

http://www.alphr.com/spotify/spotify/24190/should-spotify-slash-its-prices

This references a report that was actually done by management consultants and indicates that Spotify would become more profitable by slashing prices in the UK. This would result in more monies going to artists but there is the obvious disadvantage of having to pay these out at a greater rate, i.e. reconfiguring the payment model with labels/artists.

However, I'm sure you'll dismiss this as the angry little keyboard warrior you are.

Yours sincerely, "troll"

I'm just going off a couple of interviews I've seen. The smaller bands tend to do it more for the exposure - but then they don't make much off of CD sales either. All that goes to their legal department sadly and probably does in this case too. Hence why touring, concerts and other events becoming increasingly more popular in the rock scene.

do you think if you buy a cd or vinyl that there aren't shareholders making money? manufacturers, distributers, retailers?

i've read how it works, it's all explained here
http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/
just out of interest, how do you know how they like to earn money, have you spoken to all of them.
it may only be fractions of a penny per listen, but it obviously works for the artists, or they wouldn't do it.

eBay. Just keep an eye out. They come and go. Otherwise a lot of Canadian gift cards. Just make sure it is a gift card you're buying and not a shared account.

No, its just that they operate on a pay per play model. It's many of fractions of a penny the artist gets played when their song is played, so very few make much money off it. Smaller artists have no chance - although most of them I've seen much prefer to make money via band merch and tours regardless :stuck_out_tongue: Streaming is a dreadful model for the artists sadly.

Whoo! Boom... Signed up... Thanks guise :smile:dancin

works as treat. Did exactly the same last year... then deezer.. total cost is a £3-£4 if you're patient... no need to pay £120 pervyear as they hope we all would... No brainer ! :smile:
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It says on the spotify explained site that 70% of spotify revenue goes to the rights holders. Are spotify lying?

We've always had legal alternatives.

There's plenty of decent material out there. Before the digital age, I was spending £20-£40 per month on music. Now i spend £10 per month, and I've got infinitely more music. So less than half the price, and that's without taking inflation into account.

Yup good idea, buy one 99p now and then one 1st January but then your only extending it by 1 month or so.

Am looking at picking up a free 3 mobile sim, try and top it up for min and then get the 6 months deezer sub free posted here:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/6-months-free-deezer-subscription-for-three-customers-2322113?page=4#comments

And then on 11th May 2016, repeat the process !

seems plenty of deezer and spotify sub offers pop up so can just keep your eyes open I guess.

Yeah i think the idea is, the offer runs til Jan, so no point even buying 10 subs today, they all expire in 3m.. but if you buy Jan 1st lets say.. ?

Could you buy this twice? For the same account? Or could you just create another account and use the 3 months after the first has expired?

Is this for new accounts only? I already have an account and it won't let me upgrade

Because they've already got a number of the speakers dotted around the house working fine and dandy already :wink:

Thanks OP, just ordered

Also worth pointing out in premium you can change DL/Stream to Extreme sound quality!

Thanks OP. Using the 3 months for 99p on my Sonos until I get to try Apple Music.

No probs. I know this for a fact cos my nieces use my account. And if I'm listening to something it sometimes stops cos they using the streaming. NF I think it's 2 or 3 streams at a time.

Can you download songs from spotify? Would like to put songs on MP3 player for at the gym. Or it that not what this is about

Link me to your 'well researched evidence'. Is it from ibitimes or dailymail? Of course by charging lower prices they're going to get more consumers. but that significantly reduces their profit margin. Artists are the people who make up the prices. They've done 1000x research than you as an industry as well as individuals (bet your ass they did. They have millions sitting around they spend in a blink of an eye on these "researches".) So don't tell me there's 'well researched evidence' because if they were any credible, law of economics would have played its hand. Those greedy **** would do anything for an extra penny.

Lecturing a billion dollar busines and industries their pricing strategies? Give me a break. If you're so clever, go and become a consultant and tell them to. I promise you you'll get millions by spending 5 minutes telling them. (You're earning more than Bill Gates!) What's that? Nobody will listen to you? That's right, the sentence you type aren't worth the bytes needed to store them. You're just relaying some random article/angry blogger you don't understand. Guess what? They're all stupid and you've just become another botnet of virus that is infecting the internet one by one, stupidity.

Congrats, troll. + You took my words completely out of context

Great deal. Thank you OP

Tosh - there is well researched evidence to suggest that Spotify would make higher revenues if they charged HALF the price that they currently do but they will not because they risk upsetting artists.

I've got no real issue with people using tricks/loopholes/etc. as piracy/theft will always exist but don't try and justify it with crap statements like this.

Or maybe they should give us some money to listen to there music... 10£ a month is nothing to access to millions of tracks online/offline... it looks like that some people here are to used to shop in a poundshop !! there is a price to pay for everything, it doesn't come for free...

Wow! Already got an account but still amazing

Just got this. I will be cancelling after 3 months as a tenner a month to listen to music is a joke. Heat added.

Musicians get grossly underpaid on Spotify no matter what. (It won't affect what they get because they get paid per play counts) We're grossly underpaying Spotify. For once they get to know what it feels like to be on the other side of the table

What you have there my friend is a misunderstanding of how musicians make money. Give your hard-earned cash to Spotifys shareholders if you want tho!

where would one buy a 12mth code for £20?

My bad

Why would anyone use Apple Music, it's not even compatible with SONOS

Not free music, but they should get real. It's 2015, not the 1980's.

Musicians moaned when internet piracy was supposedly killing their industry, now when we have legal alternatives they still moan.

If they create some decent material, like any business they will be successful.

Never any deals for existing users :disappointed:

How is it this deal is hotter than the 6 months of free Deezer?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/6-months-free-deezer-subscription-for-three-customers-2322113

If your gmail address is [email protected] you could use [email protected] or [email protected]

Gmail doesn't acknowledge the dots - so all the emails will get to you as normal. Best to send one to yourself to test.

33p per day for the best music server is really bad !!!

oh dear

how do I get a year of it please help I used a Gmail account and have chrome...

you can move the . in your email address where you like to make it appear as a new one, for example.

Thanks for the alert. Signed up and taken all my play lists across to new account. This has saved me creating a new account for a few months now.

Thanks I made a new account and got 3 months @ 99p. I did quite like this when I had a 1 month trial a few months ago, and used it when walking my dog, but found I was using it less and less after a few weeks. If it was £5 a month I'd probably have a recurring subscription, but £10 a month for something I might not use for a few weeks is too much. Better to get £60 a year out of me than £0 I say.

This is a good deal no doubt.
However I find Google Play Music much better. You can upload your own music (The Beatles?) to their servers 50,000 tracks for free & I find the overall user experience better. I was with Spotify from very early on with the iphone app.
Also you can now pay your 9.99 with store credit & buy the vouchers often with 15% off (Tesco recently plus clubcard points) making 8.50 a month.
This has become a _very_ competetive market and when I joined GPM this time last year I got a standard 2 months free. Apple launched their streaming service 3 or 4 months ago with a standard 3 months free.
I am certain google will offer a similar deal to this _very_ soon if you can hold out. They may even _match this deal_ if you phone them? just google "google play music support 0800"

cheers

Just for the record the gmail trick does work on this one

​yes I just did that

Yes. The post you are quoting literally could not have been clearer... you can cancel straight away and your 3 month premium period will still remain active until the expiration date

Just a note for others, you can cancel straight away and your 3 month premium period will still remain active until the expiration date.

How are people who've already availed of a similar offer getting this?

Do you have loads of cards to use for these types of offers?

I was going to try Spotify after my free 12 month sub of deezer expired but I have been very impressed with deezer and took up their offer of 12 more months for £50, just over £4 a month, bargain :smile:

Given it a go cheers op :smiley:

Nice deal
Thanks OP
Heat added :smiley:

go through the French website and you get it for 0.99€ - that's 30% cheaper so cold from me :wink:
https://www.spotify.com/fr/premium/

Didnt work for me! Only have one bank account which I have used before ah well!

This year I've already had 3 months Spotify for 99p, then I got the 3 months Deezer offer and then another 3 months Deezer, and now 3 more months of Spotify.

This offer popped up on my existing account as soon as I logged in. Thanks OP!

How do u get this for 12 months? It says on the website that after three months they will charge the normal price.

Oh really? I wasn't actually aware of that, I thought it was sort of like a Netflix subscription haha, cheers!

No. You can only stream music on one device at a time. You can play offline music tho.

Oh yeah and go into Paypal and delete the subscription before I forget too!

Cheers, new account and email address and it works! Now to copy playlists over.

thanks just signed up

Signed up. Already like that I can choose any song to play. Sound quality also is better I feel, a bit more oomph.

Yep :smiley:

Thanks, and even though you have one account can you still play different songs at the same time using 2 mobile devices?

Yeah thx, I notice that I can actually follow my old playlist, but can't add more songs

prob a stupid question but if you sign up for this can you put the app on multiple mobile phones?

hwo do you stop the auto renew. mine just says cancel subscription? is that is
do i still get for 3 months>

I don't actually see the offer - all I see is "try free for 1 month" or "£9.99 for premium".

what is entropay?

Just signed up to this using entropay and at checkout it said my debit card was Malta based and if i wanted to change my country to Malta. So this reduced it to 0.99 eur for 3 months, then they will charge my card 6.99 eur a month. Which works out £4.91 a month, which i don't mind paying.

Thanks OP

Any idea how long this offer is running for? I've got a month left of premium so I'd rather sign up later.

does this even work? I thought any new accounts you make will only have premium for the next 3 months so you can't stack them one after another?

Jut signed up with a new account.. took two minutes, cancelled auto renew straight away.

Hot, thanks OP

@tehwabbit "id love to use this but cba with the hassle of creating multiple accounts and having to re-sign into all my devices each few months!"

Think of it like this, you would be saving nearly £30 every 3 months if you spent about 5 minutes signing your devices into a new account. Is your time usually worth more than £30/5 minutes? or £120/20 minutes over a year? This site is all about saving money, is it really that much of a hassle?

How about a nice offer for the long term paying customers?! You know, reward those who've been paying £10/m (or £5/m for students) for years!!

#bitter-existing-customer!

Who put new accounts only ? works fine for me . and I used an existing one

Many thanks for this!

Thanks OP for this! Great value.

Can I transfer playlist easily! Anyone know?

Can the gmail trick be used thus 1 year will cost £3.96.

HUKD

Thanks for this.

Offer ends January 2, 2016 (just in case anyone's wanting to hold off getting this)

"You need to enable Javascript in order to proceed through the purchase flow."

Using Chrome, and Java is working just fine.

Many thanks

Could someone advise if there is a big difference between Spotify free and Premium?

Thank you

HOT - thanks OP have been missing Deezer since i lost it from my Orange account..

You can cancel in advanced, I just did it now in the hope I could sign up to this deal, and it now states the date my subscription will end.

That's brilliant thanks - I get what you mean.

Don't they check your payment credentials to see if you've already availed of a similar offer?

When does this deal expire?

Will take this up once my Deezer subscription ends

Heat

They'll all end 3 months from when you place the order, though. I don't know of a way where you can temporarily freeze your account, is there?

The website is not working for me, no way to register or either to sign up, always gives a bunch of errors.

It would have to be using a new email account (make a temporary one just to sign up) or you could try the gmail method where you move the "." in the address.

I prefer using Deezer when they do 0.99p offer, soon as it expires they send you a offer again in couple weeks and just renew same account.

Great,
Can you cancel in advance now?

Pay the 99p through paypal, then deactivate the recurring payment from your paypal account. Job done!

How do you go about this as once you've signed up for the 3 months you cant do it again on the same account?

You pay 99p for 3 months 4 times so 12 months is £3.96

Or you could get £1 fish for 1p more

comes at the right time for me getting the sonus play1 as an early christmas present so this will do nicely

cancelled apple music and will rethink once the 3 months of spotify is over

thanks heat added

Good deal

Anyone know when this ends? (the last date I can sign up for it)

Does anyone know how long this offer will be on for?

New customers...Not fair...Tbh I did get 2 months free of premium...

yes, I can't give you step by step at the moment, but it's very easy to do. Just ensure you make the playlist 'public' in settings - then anyone (i.e. you and your new account) can see and copy your playslist

I don't have many playlists just songs I add to my library

Just renewed for a month yesterday which was a pain, id love to use this but cba with the hassle of creating multiple accounts and having to re-sign into all my devices each few months!

Just wish they would do a deal for existing customers rather than just want to drive their userbase up!

How easy is it to copy over playlists? Can you copy the entire playlist at once? I might do this.

Thanks OP, worked for me :-)

Yeah, time to upgrade everything!

How do I do that donnay?

Thanx

How easy is it to cancel after the 3 months?

thanks!

you can also request you delete free account and start again worked a few times for me

Shame i've got Apple Music now.

HOT THANKS

Don't forget reminder to cancel if you want, 14 feb is good day perhaps

Are you able to cancel the auto renewal without losing the 3 months @ 99p ?