Following on from their announcement earlier in the week to only accept new customers who have a Facebook accounts or sign up for one. Spotify has today announced that it will be closing their Open account service and replacing it with a six month unlimited trial. After your 6 months are up, your trial will be limited to 10 hours of streaming per month and a 5-play limit will be applied to individual tracks.
If you already have a Open account with Spotify, the company have explained what will happen in a statement after the jump. If you are already a paying subscriber to Spotify there are no changes to your account.
Spotify explains:
“If you’ve had your Spotify Open account for less than six months, you’ll discover that your time cap has gone. And it’ll stay gone until your account reaches its six-month birthday…if you’ve had your Spotify Open account for more than six months, you’ll still be limited by time. As you’ve been with us for a while, the chances are you also enjoyed a six-month period without time limits when you first joined.”
Source: TNW
