Spotify limits certain features to affect free app users’ listening experience

Spotify, a music and podcast streaming platform has recently limited a few features to premium plan users only. These features have been disabled for free users starting from October 9 in India.

According to Spotify, the implementation of restricting these features is an attempt to bring in more premium subscribers, as the market is matured now in India and wants to discontinue the free tier service, reported TechCrunch.

From now on, those who are using Spotify for free won’t be able to access the following features: repeat songs as before, won’t have an option to rewind a song to a particular part, or even go back to play the previous song. Additionally, free users won’t be able to create a customisable playlist order on their app and won’t have the option to shuffle songs, as Beebom posted.