Looking to continue its user growth and perhaps even counter the positioning of CBS-owned streaming service Last.fm, UK-based online music provider Spotify is rumoured to be preparing a recession-friendly subscription model that will allow for unlimited content downloads.
Spotty rumours surrounding Spotify\'s future plans. Image: Spotify.
More pointedly, the new subscription package will arrive as a premium service that will enable users to download and keep as many tracks as they like in return for a modest monthly commitment of 9.99 GBP, according to a report by Revolution magazine.
While the service presently resides in the realms of the unconfirmed, such unlimited access to Spotify’s expansive catalogue of MP3 tracks would certainly bolster the company’s confirmed plans to launch a mobile version of its service this summer.
Update: A Spotify spokesperson has since commented that the rumoured premium service is “100% untrue,” and that the company’s core aim remains focused on providing “a user-friendly music streaming service with the added flexibility of offering paid-for downloads,” in partnership with external partners such as Amazon, 7Digital and iTunes.
Speaking with paidContent.co.uk, Spotify has moved to drive home its denial by insisting that an unlimited monthly subscription model is “something we could never support or achieve.”
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