Music streaming: Spotify introduces group chats
Since last year, you can chat with friends on Spotify. Now the music streaming service is also introducing group chats.
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Spotify is getting group chats: In the future, messages will not only be shareable in individual chats but also with multiple people, Spotify announces. Group chats are already available in the USA, but they did not yet work on a test device in Germany.
Spotify introduced the chat function last year. It is integrated into the Spotify app for mobile devices and can be accessed by tapping the share icon, for example, while playing a song, podcast, or audiobook. Here you can select a friend or contact to whom you want to send the content. In the chat, you can communicate freely, similar to a messenger app.
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Up to 10 people can participate in group chats on Spotify, Spotify writes in the announcement, which the company has tacked on as an update to the original blog post for Spotify direct messages. The same security and setting functions as in direct messages should be available in the groups.
For users aged 16 and over
According to Spotify, the messages are protected by “industry-standard encryption.” Those who do not want to chat can block individual users or completely disable the chat function in the settings. To use Spotify messages at all, you must be at least 16 years old. The function is available to users with and without a subscription.
Spotify now regularly costs 13 euros per month in Germany; only students get a cheaper offer for 7 euros per month. Spotify increased prices last year. In principle, the Swedish music streaming service can also be used without a subscription, but free access has restrictions. Only users with a subscription can listen to music ad-free, use offline mode, and, above all, freely select tracks for playback.
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