last month announced a million paying subscribers online music service Spotify Spotify halving is the amount of free music, the user can hear.Users of your free service will be only 10 hours per month, half the time currently offered and will play five times, from may only title.
New users receive six months of free content before the changes occur.
The message has angered fans to be the company model of free, paid change accuse.
This is denied some of Spotify.
Ken Park, Spotify's content head of Office told the BBC: "Our top priority is to keep the free service, is what has made Spotify so popular."
"We are a company, whose ambition is to all the world's music to everyone, which means growing the business and our user base to many times its current size."
"All we should do to ensure that our users have access to an amazing free experience continues," he added.
Last month, the online music service announced that it had one million paying subscribers in Europe.
But the majority of his listeners free 6.67 m with the service, which is subsidized by advertising.
Until thenAnnouncement of the new plans in his blog of the company, said that above all heavy users would affect the changes - starting on 1 May-.
Continue reading the most important storySpotify and the record companies are in a marriage, the neither seems locked to enjoy "end quote Rory Cellan-Jones technology correspondent" most of you use Spotify, music - over 50 new titles per month on average to entdeckensogar after a year, "he said."
"Anyone who thinks that she could reach these limits, we hope you check out our unlimited and premium services will check."
Experts say that Spotify long-term profitability hanging switch from users to the premium services, to remove the advertising and listener smartphones use.
"The economics of ad supported music services not only add you and Spotify can not long survive, while it money from your free service haemorrhages,", said Mark Mulligan, analyst at Forrester research.
Fees from the music industry - one of the major problems for services such as Spotify is called for, Mr Mulligan work at around 1 p per game according to.
"The record companies do not, such as with a permanent free service around, it's like sleeping with the enemy."
"But too many people music, to be free now expect and if there is no legitimate free services they'll get it back to the illegal sector", he warned.
The first answer on Spotify's blog read: "as long Spotify." It was nice to know you. "Think I'll go music back then to piracy."
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