
Off-line listening is a perk for premium accounts.Free accounts have limits on skipping tracks and going to a specific place in a song.

Premium accounts have unlimited, on-demand listening.Premium accounts listen ad-free whereas free accounts have listening interrupted by commercials (because free isn’t ever really free).Premium accounts run about $10/month, however, and carry a few big features with noticeable impact: All of the features described in this post will be functional with free accounts. You and your students can use Spotify for free. Spotify is freemium, though offers #Techquity There is also a desktop player as well as a web player, so as long as there’s an internet connection, there’s a Spotify connection. There’s an app for that! It can be downloaded to most phones and tablets. It does not aim to be comprehensive, so please do post responses to supplement any amazingness I neglect to cover! 1. This post aims to be helpful and encouraging to educators.

With Spotify, nobody is relegated to the exclusive role of consumer (though we may self-elect it) rather, we are all empowered to be creators, producers and tastemakers and we are encouraged every step of the way to be collaborative in our processes.

Beyond providing users with a friendly interface for discovering and sharing music, and curating and publishing playlists, Spotify’s greatest power and future potential is in its inherently social nature. Napster was doing that 15 years ago and the reason why nobody describes Spotify as “a guilt-free Napster” is because Spotify goes way beyond what Napster ever did. It does more than help you discover and organize music. Spotify is so much more than a tool for listening to music.

10 Things Teachers Should Know about Spotify
