Looks like PlayStation France got itself in a muddle, as Spotify is available on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, er, right now. The streaming application – which you'll find on your console's dashboard – is about 10MB in size, and is exclusive to Sony's systems for the time being. How long will things remain that way? "For the foreseeable," Murray Pannell, a SCEUK marketing director told Eurogamer.net at a preview event we totally weren't invited to last week. First world problems.
The app's available in 41 regions at the moment, including the UK and North America. Apparently, the platform holder sneakily included it in the PS4's recent firmware update – without telling anyone. It's well integrated into the hardware, too, allowing you to stream music to your machine while you're playing games on the Japanese giant's next-gen machine. All of the community features – including creating and sharing playlists – are present and correct as well.
The really nifty thing is that both the Free and Premium options will be available, and the library will be identical across the PC and PlayStation. Sure, that means no Taylor Swift – but the other 30 million songs in the service's library should fill that particular Blank Space. If you do want to pod up a few pennies, the Premium offering – which includes higher-quality streaming for starters – will set you back £9.99/$9.99 per month. Not bad at all, huh?
Also, it's worth noting that if you had an active Music Unlimited account as of 29th March, you'll be getting two free months of service. We'll be bringing you plenty more Spotify coverage throughout the day, so stay tuned for more on this exciting addition to the PlayStation Music platform. In the meantime, let us know what you'll be streaming in the comments section below.
[source blog.us.playstation.com, via eurogamer.net]
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No t swifty no deal. Guess il just continue to use my x1 to stream my one direction, Bieber, and swifty playlist while I crank out some bloodborne.
@BigDaddyT0101
No Taylor Swift? No Deal. No Deal.
Initial impressions are that this is very impressive.
For some reason it is available on almost all EU countries while Music Unlimited was not widely available. Never tried Spotify but maybe now its the time. However a Plus discount on the subscription would be a good idea.
Local Spotify webpage says it costs 6.99 euros per month...
@belmont The Free version's pretty good to be honest. I say give it a try before signing up.
Yay! Something else I don't want and can't remove off the menu bar. Thanks Sony. Folders needed more than ever.
Wait - if I didn't have spotify before how do I get the 2 free months?
@get2sammyb You are right. I thought to try the free premium but I don't see any real reason. I haven't tried the android version yet but the desktop is great. Search is fast, adds don't really cause a problem and it has local Greek music (strangely) and video and movie soundtracks. Quality is not superb but I can live with it.
@ztpayne7 Not sure what you mean?
@get2sammyb sorry. I was asking how to redeem the 2 free months of spotify if you were a music unlimited member
Nice! I've been a Spotify member for a while now so it's nice to have the ability to just play it off of the system while I'm playing games.
@rastamadeus At this point, I dont think it'll ever be implemented. And you know Sony will keep adding bloatware that we can't delete off of our drives. They need to give us the ability to cut out the crap we dont want.
Anyone that has tried this, how is the control in game? Do you have to exit whatever you're doing to change the song or does it work nicely through the PS menu?
Also, in game song changing without the menu would be so sweet. Also quite improbable.
I think I'm the punchline of a joke for this one - You know you're old if you're still listening to Pandora. Though since I hooked up the surround sound receiver maybe I should see if FM works? Got to have that antenna wire laying around somewhere. Old old school.
@ztpayne7 I'm not actually sure. Hmm, it might be automatic? I'll look into this for you.
Why the F can you only pay with a creditcard?!?!
@xX_RiscazZ_Xx your game will suspend (like the suspend/resume power function) while you use that app.
@AyeHaley much obliged
Man I'm too late to make a taylor swift joke.
Meh... The only reason I'm not excited is because I'd rather be able to save my own music to the hard drive so games like The Show and NHL can implement the custom music features (Sound of the Show, etc.) like they could on the PS3. This service leads me to believe they're never gonna implement that =/
The PS4 screen really needs a tidy up! And spotify, I'll welcome the addition!
Was super excited to give this a go until after 10 minutes and some Google research I found it plays random songs you don't want to listen to in the middle of your playlists. If Sony could make it so I could have my own music on my ps4 that would be great can't afford to pay 10quid a month for music I already own
I have just tested it and my £4.99/month Unlimited account works with the app on PS4.
No adverts but a slightly lower bit rate I believe but you can choose a mid-point between the free version and the £10/month one.
As much as I like these digital music choice Sony needs to make it so you can play CDS on the PS4. It shocked me when I found out I couldnt.
How good is this?!? Trials with some Alkaline Trio! Olliolli with some Destiny's Child! Frigging brilliant!!!
Bloodborne + Celestial Lineage by Wolves in the Throne Room = THE MOST RIDICULOUSLY EPIC THING EVER.
Driveclub plus 65daysofstatic for me
Driveclub just got a ton better
I have a 200+ song playlist on spotify but it seems to only cycle through a smaller chunk of it unless I go back to the spotify menu and manually play a song from later on in the list. Otherwise this is fantastic, played lots of CoD AW with some Queen
Fantastic addition to the PS4, least I've got a new soundtrack for GTA 5.
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