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One way to solve this is to look to Spotify. They changed their restriction: only playing music out of one device; into a feature: you can now control your musi
by samschooler 9y ago
One way to solve this is to look to Spotify. They changed their restriction: only playing music out of one device; into a feature: you can now control your music from any device. In addition to this, they used things like playlists, the discover weekly recommendations and other strategies in order to make it annoying to share an account. WHILE also having the barrier to getting your own account to the point where the annoyances (listening to ads, or paying $7.99 a month) are still better than pirating (possibility of low quality, no seeders, sketchy websites).
Of course this isn't to say this is how cable companies should exactly go about solving their problem, but by cracking down on their PAYING subscribers, they will drive more people NOT less to either pirate, or share passwords.
- _asummers 9y agoThey did this while also shoving out Family Plans which are by far best bang for your buck in Spotify subscription plans, amortized over 4 or 5 friends.
- adrr 9y agoSpotify's way of handling is completely terrible and i am very tempted to cancel. I have a bunch of Echo's around my house and the Spotify family plan which i share with my wife . My wife can't play music on our the Amazon Echo if i am using Spotify elsewhere on my phone, or laptop because of the one account one stream rule Spotify implements.. You can't create fake accounts for your Echo's, they actually make an effort to verify you actually exist with some identity database. All to prevent a legitimate customer from being able to use their service.
- figgis 9y agoHave you even tried searching your problem..? https://www.spotify.com/us/family/ https://www.spotify.com/us/family/ https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Family-Premium-multiple-devices-playing-own-music-simultaneously/td-p/1349248 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Family-Premium-mul...
- rconti 9y agoMy Sonos is logged into Spotify with my own creds. So if I'm driving around using Spotify and my wife fires up the Sonos with my creds saved to it, it stops playing in my car. She's got her own account on our family plan, but she's not going to change the username/password to hers every time she uses the Sonos (and me do the reverse). I suppose I could generate a "dummy" family member account used just for the Sonos, but then it wouldn't have my playlists....
- anderiv 9y agoI’m fairly certain that Sonos allows multiple streaming accounts for each provider. I currently have three Apple Music accounts registered on my Sonos, and have had multiple Spotify accounts registered in the past.
- figgis 9y agoThey support multiple accounts. Maybe you need to contact support. https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/multiple-spotify-accounts-6763522 https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/m...
- mehrdadn 9y ago> I suppose I could generate a "dummy" family member account used just for the Sonos, but then it wouldn't have my playlists.... They really do need to set the stream limit for the whole family plan rather than 1 per account, but at least as a workaround: Can't you share playlists?
- tomjen3 9y agoSpotify design and ui is so hopelessly bad that I switched to Google play. I want a music player not an integrated whatever social piece of crap that sometimes, if I am lucky, plays music.
- namlem 9y agoOn the one hand, being able to control spotify on any device, from any device is nice. On the other hand, it's kind of bullshit that they don't allow at least 2 simultaneous streams. Two is too few to password share meaningfully, but it would save the hassle of my roommate having to log into his account to play music in the living room because I'm listening in my room.