What is Spotify and how to use it

All that is Spotify, why it is so popular, and how to maximize convenient to use.

Spotify - a streaming music service available in 66 countries. His audience consists of more than 100 million people, in his catalog of more than 300 million songs. Service can be used on desktops, mobile devices, the web, as well as game consoles, TVs and stereos.

Why Spotify so popular

Spotify - one of the most popular services that offer legal opportunity to hear tracks online from a vast music catalog. However, users love the service is not only for this. The main advantage of Spotify - music selection algorithms that are almost perfectly adapt to the tastes of the audience.

In addition, there are themed playlists created by other users and by musicians. These collections will be waiting for you every week, and every day available so-called Daily Mix.

Spotify also have a very cool custom radio stations based on artists, playlists, genres and individual songs. And besides them - cross-platform support and the ability to control playback from any device.

How to listen to music

Here begins the complexity. Since the service is officially available in Russia and the Ukraine, just listen to your favorite tracks will not work. And if you download and install Spotify client on a computer or smartphone is still possible, then use the service will not work without an account. Sign up is not so easy.

How to register

To register in Spotify need a bit of cunning and replace its location on one of the countries where the service is officially available. For example, in the United States. Here's how to do it.

1. Substitute the IP-address to the US, using any VPN service. For example, TunnelBear or Browsec, which is available as an extension to Chrome.
   
2. Go to the Spotify.com and register by clicking the Get Spotify Free.
   
3. Fill in a simple form and confirm registration by clicking Sign Up.
   

This will open the Download page and automatically start downloading the client installer for Mac or Windows. With mobile applications a little more complicated.

How to install Spotify for iOS and Android

Since Spotify does not work in the territory of Russia and Ukraine, the regional and applications on the App Store and Google Play, of course not. But set them all you can.

With Android all easy: you just need to download the APK-file and set everything manually. And iPhone owners will have to first register US account Your Apple ID and to download an application from overseas App Store.

What's next

It's all. Now you can safely enjoy a huge media library Spotify and discover new musical horizons. You do not need to pay a dime.

Free account has almost no limits, especially if you prefer to listen to music from your computer. We'll have to just twice a month to log in via the Spotify US VPN and occasionally listen to advertising between tracks. Also it will be impossible to use offline mode that is irrelevant for the desktop, and switch to the maximum flow quality (320 kbit / s).

On mobile devices, to the above restrictions limit is added to skip six songs per hour, and the inability to select a specific song in the playlist (only Shuffle Mode).

Premium subscription removes all restrictions. But in order to buy it, will have a little more zamorochitsya.

How to pay premium

Pay online map of the Russian or Ukrainian bank will not work, because it takes Spotify Card only in countries where formal work (in some cases, it turns out, but it is more an exception). Different countries have different subscription, it is the cheapest right now in the Philippines. You can save by buying a purse family access to six people.

Now there are two ways to get premium membership:

1. Buy on eBay gift card Spotify, to replenish its account and activate your paid subscription.
2. To have a fake web American PayPal account to transfer money on it with your local account and pay for premium membership.

All actions are, of course, you need to perform with the included American VPN.

However, buying premium is not necessary. I, for one, for several years I use Spotify in the free version only and absolutely no discomfort with no experience. Customizable all playlists and radio on the Mac, and then just listen to on the iPhone. Advertising is very unobtrusive, and streaming quality even in the normal version is quite decent. The only thing that sometimes is not enough - it's offline mode, even though the situation when there is no Internet, are very rare.