Although you’ll obviously get a better experience when you pay for a service, we love that Spotify still offers a decent streaming solution for those who don’t have the cash for a subscription.

Spotify Free isn’t really free, of course – it’s ad-supported. So companies are essentially paying Spotify to give you the luxury of listening without coughing up any cash. But Spotify would still love for you to sign up for a subscription, so the 'free' service isn’t the best or most easy-listening around.

On the web or the desktop app, you can play any track, album or playlist at any time or in any order, which is pretty good, but you’ll hear an ad, which you can’t skip, every few songs.

The experience is a little more clunky on mobile. With the Spotify app and a free account, you can pick 15 playlists featuring up to 750 songs in total. These can't be stored for offline playback, but there is a low-data-use mode that caches some of the data, to go easy on your allowance. You can't freely skip tracks in these playlists, and there are still, of course, ads.

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