Spotify is going to reduce the song allowance for free users

Music streaming service Spotify is to cut back on the avail­ab­il­ity of free content it provides to its users.

Non-sub­scribers will now only be able to listen to a song five times. The maximum monthly listening time will also be halved to just 10 hours.

So far, over one million users have signed up to Spotify's premium service. Chief content officer Ken Parks was keen to stress the import­ance the company still placed on the free service, however "we've got to balance a number of pri­or­it­ies. Chief amongst those pri­or­it­ies is to keep the free service, which is what makes Spotify unique, and what you're seeing here is a balance of these pri­or­it­ies".

CHEERS KEN.

The news of the cutbacks has not gone down well, with one user com­ment­ing: "So long Spotify. It was nice knowing you. Guess I'll go back to pirating music again then." What a dick.