Spotify Family.. Anyone interested? [Threads Merged] [Mod Note in OP]

Cormac2791 · 07-08-2019 4:05pm

Stupify wrote: »

My wife is Thai so we use her credit card.

The space is gone pending payment at the moment but if it falls through I'll msg the next person here.

I am interested also if someone pulls out!

Hairdo · 08-08-2019 7:22am

Cormac2791 wrote: »

I am interested also if someone pulls out!

I am looking for a spot for a while now. If anyone has one available I'm definitely interested. Thanks

Helium · 08-08-2019 10:54am

Hairdo wrote: »

I am looking for a spot for a while now. If anyone has one available I'm definitely interested. Thanks

I'll take a spot too if anyone starting a family.

Scott Tenorman · 08-08-2019 12:11pm

I was previously in a "family" on here that was disbanded, is there any hassle from Spotify in joining a new one?

rustledjimmies · 08-08-2019 12:15pm

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

I was previously in a "family" on here that was disbanded, is there any hassle from Spotify in joining a new one?

I've heard from a "family member" that you can only join one family per year so it might depend on when you last joined one.

Scott Tenorman · 08-08-2019 12:36pm

rustledjimmies wrote: »

I've heard from a "family member" that you can only join one family per year so it might depend on when you last joined one.

It was over a year ago since i was in it, thanks.

Stupify · 09-08-2019 3:28pm

Still have the Thai spotify spot available, two members had to pull out as they don't have a VPN which sets to Thailand. You need a VPN to change your location to Thailand. then change your country on your free Spotify account, after which I will send you the email link to the spotify family, you no longer need the VPN past this point, 12 euro for the year. Pm me if interested.

padyjoe · 09-08-2019 6:30pm

Folks!

What to do when the family starter gets the money and goes silent? I've a strange feeling I've thrown 30 quid down the drain. :rolleyes:

(My previous family was set up with less hassle and more promptly.)
I simply can't believe my luck.

Aquos76 · 09-08-2019 6:32pm

padyjoe wrote: »

Folks!

What to do when the family starter gets the money and goes silent? I've a strange feeling I've thrown 30 quid down the drain. :rolleyes:

(My previous family was set up with less hassle and more promptly.)
I simply can't believe my luck.

Someone on here?

padyjoe · 09-08-2019 10:59pm

the whole year inn wrote: »

I have a spot free if some one can pay using KBC .

Aquos76 wrote: »

Someone on here?

Unfortunately, yes. The chap has gone away completely.

Aquos76 · 10-08-2019 12:31am

padyjoe wrote: »

Unfortunately, yes. The chap has gone away completely.

That particular user was active 2 days ago, he or she is also a long time user here and I doubt they rip someone off for a measly €30 tbh. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation.

Stupify · 12-08-2019 3:10pm

Still have that one spot for the Thai Spotify family account, 12 for the year.

B Rabbit · 12-08-2019 4:13pm

1 space free on my account. 30e for year. PM if anyone wants in.

Limestone1 · 12-08-2019 4:28pm

Stupify wrote: »

Still have that one spot for the Thai Spotify family account, 12 for the year.

I'll take it.

fmcgarvey · 15-08-2019 4:55pm

Hi,Im interested

godtabh · 20-08-2019 6:28pm

Is this the end?

https://www.spotify.com/ie/legal/premium-family-terms/

Spotify® Premium Family Terms and Conditions
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF THE SPOTIFY PREMIUM FAMILY SUBSCRIPTION.
19 August 2019

1. Introduction

The Spotify Premium Family subscription (the “Premium Family Subscription”) is made available by Spotify, subject to these terms and conditions (the “Premium Family Terms and Conditions”), and in accordance with the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use, which are hereby incorporated by reference. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the same meaning given to them in the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use.

The Premium Family Subscription grants the primary account holder and up to five (5) family members access to subsidiary accounts to the Spotify Premium Family service, from the moment that you activate the master account by submitting your payment details and paying the advertised price. By submitting your payment details, you (i) consent to us using your payment details in accordance with our Privacy Policy, and (ii) acknowledge and agree to these Premium Family Terms and Conditions.

2. Eligibility and Verification

A. In order to be eligible for the Premium Family Subscription, the primary account holder and the subsidiary account holders must be family members residing at the same address.

B. Upon activation of a subsidiary Premium Family account, you will be asked to verify your home address.

C. We may from time to time ask for re-verification of your home address in order to confirm that you are still meeting the eligibility criteria.

We use Google Maps address search to help you find and set your address. The address you enter upon activation or re-verification will be subject to the Google Maps Additional Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.

Spotify reserves the right to terminate or suspend access to the Spotify Premium Family service and the Spotify Premium Family account(s) immediately and at any time if you fail to meet the eligibility criteria and as otherwise set out in the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use.

3. Cancellation

You may cancel the Premium Family Subscription at any time by logging into your Spotify account and following the prompts on the Account page, or by clicking here and following the instructions. If the primary account holder cancels the Premium Family Subscription or the account is otherwise terminated, the subsidiary Premium account(s) will automatically be downgraded to Spotify Free Service.

4. Availability of the Premium Family Subscription

Spotify reserves the right to terminate, modify or suspend the Premium Family Subscription in whole or in part at any time and for any reason. After such time, Spotify shall not be obligated to maintain or permit any further subscriptions to the Premium Family Subscription.

5. Other Restrictions

A. Spotify gift cards and other pre-payment methods cannot be used as a valid payment method for the Premium Family Subscription.

B. If you currently subscribe to Spotify through a third party (such as a telephone company) you will not be able to take advantage of this offer.

C. No other discounts can be applied.

D. There are no refunds or credits for partial monthly subscriptions.

E. Spotify will communicate any price changes to you, and you can accept or reject such price changes, in accordance with the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use.

F. Note; If you are a holder of a Premium account, by joining the Premium Family Subscription plan you acknowledge and agree that no refunds are available for changing from your current Premium plan before the end of your paid subscription period. Upon joining, you will switch immediately to the Premium Family Subscription, and your access to the Spotify Premium service will remain uninterrupted, but any unused Premium time you’ve already paid for, including any remaining free Trial days, under your current Premium plan will be forfeited.

Contracting entity:
Spotify AB
Regeringsgatan 19, SE-111 53 Stockholm
Sweden
SE556703748501

DopeTech · 20-08-2019 7:53pm

Hope not but it looks that way. If it links in with Google maps to get your registered home address it will at minimum be a pain in the ass and at worst impossible to get around.

Aquos76 · 20-08-2019 8:29pm

I’ve seen a few people who’ve set up family accounts and they have only used single letters in each address fields, surely those will definitely be gone. The three different groups I’ve set up, I used real address for them all. If they are going to check google maps to verify the address is valid, then at least those addresses will show up. Also, from looking at my privacy settings for my location on the iPhone, Spotify doesn’t show up as looking to use my location.

Mr E · 20-08-2019 8:31pm

What if your family are in different cities in the same country? Tough s**t?

GhostyMcGhost · 20-08-2019 9:00pm

I'm on a family plan from here. hoping it lasts but I was worried when I saw it too

adox · 20-08-2019 9:02pm

Was good when it lasted if it is the end. Will see how it plays out. I may take out a sub anyway if it does go tits up. So used to having it now.

Or may see if there are offers on other services.

CantGetNoSleep · 21-08-2019 8:27am

GhostyMcGhost wrote: »

I'm on a family plan from here. hoping it lasts but I was worried when I saw it too

I've been on one for three or four years - was waiting for it to end

adox · 21-08-2019 12:51pm

I subscribed to Youtube Premium last night and am paying in Indian rupees.

It includes Google Play Music which is their equivalent of Spotify.

Works out at €1.63 a month.

blade1 · 21-08-2019 1:30pm

adox wrote: »

I subscribed to Youtube Premium last night and am paying in Indian rupees.

It includes Google Play Music which is their equivalent of Spotify.

Works out at €1.63 a month.

Did you give them an Indian address and did/do you need a VPN?

adox · 21-08-2019 1:37pm

blade1 wrote: »

Did you give them an Indian address and did/do you need a VPN?

Yeah used VPN for India. Asked for a city which I ignored. Used Revolut as payment.

Eire Go Brach · 21-08-2019 1:50pm

Just got an email about it. Looks like you will need to use a real address that google maps find either through location services or inputting manually.
Not sure if it will be be forced for present users. I can’t seem to use the new features yet though. Might be linked to that.

maximoose · 21-08-2019 1:57pm

So I just need my subsidiaries to be in my address when they verify?

Or use one of the many many GPS faker apps....

JohnK · 21-08-2019 1:58pm

Surely if it's one you can input manually then an entire family could just agree to put any shopping centre / bar / restaurant etc. - it's not like they ever send mail out. I'd only be worried if they were using the actual GPS location of the device but I'd imagine that'd cause all sorts of headaches for legitimate families where someone is traveling or just away from home for a short period. But even then, you could always just start setting up local families with a common enough location that most people would be passing through on a regular enough basis like city centre.

Eire Go Brach · 21-08-2019 2:02pm

JohnK wrote: »

Surely if it's one you can input manually then an entire family could just agree to put any shopping centre / bar / restaurant etc. - it's not like they ever send mail out. I'd only be worried if they were using the actual GPS location of the device but I'd imagine that'd cause all sorts of headaches for legitimate families where someone is traveling or just away from home for a short period. But even then, you could always just start setting up local families with a common enough location that most people would be passing through on a regular enough basis like city centre.

Yeh I think it’s possible. It’s a google api. Like a delivery service. I just did not want to risk it. Don’t want to break mine. Maybe a new account could confirm it.
Put master address in manually. All the members can do the same.

blade1 · 21-08-2019 2:06pm

I used my home address for all my family members and gave it to each one.
If any are asked all they need to do is give my address,yeah?
Or am I missing something?

speedygirl · 21-08-2019 5:29pm

current subscription up, anyone setting up family spotify etc that i can get a place on ?

Aquos76 · 21-08-2019 6:48pm

Spotify through a browser is now asking me to confirm my address as I’m the plan owner. It opens up a page which links it to google maps addresses and as I type in my address, I have to find it from the drop down menu.

mightybashful · 21-08-2019 8:57pm

Aquos76 wrote: »

Spotify through a browser is now asking me to confirm my address as I’m the plan owner. It opens up a page which links it to google maps addresses and as I type in my address, I have to find it from the drop down menu.

Dunno if I'm allowed say, but would the fake GPS app work in some such situation?

And could my family please pm me?

Aquos76 · 21-08-2019 9:20pm

It doesn’t ask for access to my location, it just asks me to put in my address and then confirm it. I’m assuming then that after 30th Sept it will then start requesting my family members to confirm their address in the same manner. I’m not overly bother as one of my family has my wife and two kids in it along with my brother and sister, who live close by.

I did get my wife to log into her Spotify account via browser afterwards and she wasn’t asked to confirm anything just yet. I honestly can’t see how a location fixed system would work, do Spotify only expect us to only use their service at our home address

TheDriver · 22-08-2019 12:03am

My family all put their address in as mine. I can't help if all my family are renting houses at college elsewhere etc etc. I think they're looking for obvious irregularities but will quickly give up when everyone jumps ship to cheaper services elsewhere.

Villan11 · 22-08-2019 8:22am

My family host kindly shared his address when setting up last year so I've been using his address ever since. Hopefully they don't go down the sophisticated GEO tracking solution. While I don't live a million miles away, I've never been within 100 metres of his house.

hankless · 22-08-2019 10:33am

Yes just signed up for the duo account. It is all above board but as I'm in work I didn't allow it to Geo Track my location, so I manually entered it and was accepted.

fmcgarvey · 22-08-2019 4:28pm

B Rabbit wrote: »

1 space free on my account. 30e for year. PM if anyone wants in.

Hi have you still spot free

loyatemu · 22-08-2019 4:33pm

Spotify don't know where you live. It runs on desktops, laptops etc that have no access to location services. They may ask the subsidiary accounts to confirm they're living at the address registered by the main account but if you click "yes" they've no way of knowing otherwise.

Cloudio9 · 22-08-2019 9:30pm

loyatemu wrote: »

Spotify don't know where you live. It runs on desktops, laptops etc that have no access to location services. They may ask the subsidiary accounts to confirm they're living at the address registered by the main account but if you click "yes" they've no way of knowing otherwise.

No but they'll know that the six accounts on the family plan have never shared the same IP address despite living under the same roof so can probably determine pretty easily accounts that are abusing the family plan

Aquos76 · 22-08-2019 9:43pm

Cloudio9 wrote: »

No but they'll know that the six accounts on the family plan have never shared the same IP address despite living under the same roof so can probably determine pretty easily accounts that are abusing the family plan

Not necessarily as if they all operate on 4G plans they’d all have different IP addresses anyway then.

DopeTech · 23-08-2019 6:41am

I understood it as Spotify will ask the members for access to their Google maps app. In it you can set home, work addresses etc. If your home address doesn't match then they will kick you. So it would mean all members setting their home address in Google maps to the plan owners address which wouldn't be ideal.

blade1 · 23-08-2019 7:26am

Sir Dosser wrote: »

I understood it as Spotify will ask the members for access to their Google maps app. In it you can set home, work addresses etc. If your home address doesn't match then they will kick you. So it would mean all members setting their home address in Google maps to the plan owners address which wouldn't be ideal.

They'll want to know what I had for breakfast next.
They can get lost if they want to know all that info.
I don't want to share my whereabouts with who knows who.

loyatemu · 23-08-2019 9:57am

Sir Dosser wrote: »

I understood it as Spotify will ask the members for access to their Google maps app. In it you can set home, work addresses etc. If your home address doesn't match then they will kick you. So it would mean all members setting their home address in Google maps to the plan owners address which wouldn't be ideal.

I doubt this is the case - I've never seen an app ask for that information and I'm not sure it can be shared from Google Maps.

The Spotify app could certainly ask for location access but it would be seriously tricky to get it working reliably to tie in to a specific address (I mostly use Spotify on the move, besides GPS is unreliable on a lot of phones); and anyone using it on a PC won't be able to provide location access in the first place.

Helium · 23-08-2019 4:11pm

adox wrote: »

I subscribed to Youtube Premium last night and am paying in Indian rupees.

It includes Google Play Music which is their equivalent of Spotify.

Works out at €1.63 a month.

Works a treat, Thanks for posting that.

Actually upgraded to family for extra 60 rupee, approx. €2.37 a month

fmcgarvey · 24-08-2019 12:22pm

NIMAN wrote: »

So I can share with 5 others for € 30 annually, or get my own premium account for €30 annually?

Is that right?

Hi do you have any spaces free for spotify

Eire Go Brach · 29-08-2019 10:54am

The new address verification is a non issue. You can still put in a random address manually if you need to. It seems that none of my members had to verify yet.
So we are safe for now.

SweetCaliber · 29-08-2019 11:36am

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

The new address verification is a non issue. You can still put in a random address manually if you need to. It seems that none of my members had to verify yet.
So we are safe for now.

Same, besides my address is a real one so unless Spotify want to send a rep to the door and ask for everyone's ID they can bugger off.

Aquos76 · 29-08-2019 12:05pm

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

The new address verification is a non issue. You can still put in a random address manually if you need to. It seems that none of my members had to verify yet.
So we are safe for now.

The new T&C’s don’t come into effect till after 19th September, I don’t expect any member of my family to be asked to confirm details till after that date. I however as the plan owner have already been asked to confirm my address using google maps.

I don’t see an issue for those who have used a genuine address, it’s those people who have made up fictitious addresses will have an issue. I’ve already contacted a plan owner who used random letters in the address field in his plan advising him to change it to a real address and pass it on to his family members prior to 19th September, and I’d advise anyone else in same situation to do the same.

okidoki987 · 29-08-2019 12:41pm

Guess there will be an increase in traffic soon with Vodafone ditching the free Spotify on their X plan mobile.

Spotify Family.. Anyone interested? [Threads Merged] [Mod Note in OP]

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