

Depending on location and yous signed up for it, it will cost about £9.99/$9.99 a month, you can have unlimited access to Spotify Plan for Premium. This is the company’s most popular paid plan, its the go-to subscription plan for most music fans. *This includes trials, premium for family, premium for students, bundles and premium plans with other companies. If you find yourself skipping six tracks in a row, perhaps the free model is not for you and its worth upgrading to premium. You can skip six tracks per hour, every hour. You will also be limited when it comes to skipping on this free Spotify plan. You can still access playlists, search for new music and listen to Spotify’s Radio stations. The two biggest drawbacks of the free plan are that you can only listen in Shuffle mode, and that you’ll hear advertisements every couple of tracks. The free Spotify plan comes with limited features and experience within the app. So if you want a Sonos system in other parts of your house, you can stick with the Sonos ecosystem and still integrate it with a high-quality hifi system in the living room if that's what you want.Not everything is free, even what Spotify terms as free comes with come terms and conditions. And honestly I doubt most people would be able to tell the difference in sound quality between a Bluesound Node / Powernode and a Sonos Port /Amp. You can still build a great system around the Sonos interface, though, with a Sonos Port as your music streamer, which plays exactly the same role as a Bluesound Node. I switched from Spotify to Tidal and really noticed a difference after I'd already invested maybe $2k in my system at that point, so I was pretty committed. And at that point, you'll probably want to start feeding the system the best possible sources. If you like to sit down and just listen to an album or two and revel in the music, then I think it's rewarding to get on the hifi train and invest in some better quality stereo speakers beyond what Sonos has to offer. If you're trying to set up a really nice and easy-to-use multiroom system that sounds great for background music / vibes and that the whole family will love to use, I think Sonos and Spotify is hard to beat. I guess the question is what your end-game and uses are.
