Spotify Removes Cap on Streaming Music for the Web

Spotify has dropped its cap on free web-based music streaming just a week before the launch of Beats Music.

The move is incremental — users that exhausted a six-month trial were still able to listen to certain number of hours of music per month — but it highlights Spotify's continued push to stay a step ahead of competitors in the free streaming music space. Spotify's model relies on acquiring users to its free streaming service and eventually converting them into paid customers.

In December, Spotify made a more significant change by expanding free streaming to all devices, allowing users can listen to specific artists or albums but not tracks. Read more...