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Spotify family plans incoming

Been warring over who gets to sync music to your smartphone at home? Squabble no longer

We’re sure none of you have been partial to a little Spotify Premium password sharing at home. And we’re even more sure that less of you have been bruised by Spotify desyncing all your offline music everytime you sign in with the same password on another device.

For that reason, the following news should please precisely zero Stuff.tv readers but we’ll tell you anyway. Spotify just told The Verge that it’s set to intro money-saving family plans so that people in the same household can have their own individual Spotify Premium accounts without paying too much for the same service twice or three times over.

Taking a cue from internet radio service Rdio (which has price plans for two and three users), it’s also something Spotify users have apparently been asking for. And with rival Turntable.fm just signing massive deals with Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner, it looks like the Swedes might be feeling the need to roll out new features.

Then again, Spotify song streams are now being included in the US music chart, the Billboard Hot 100, so it looks like the music streaming giant is well and truly here to stay.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home