Spotify Family Plan Overview: Should You Consider Subscribing?

Are you a music lover who wants to share your Spotify account with family members or roommates? If so, the Spotify Family Plan may be the ideal solution for you. In this article, we will give you an overview of the Spotify Family Plan and help you decide if it is worth it for you.

What is Spotify Family Plan?

Spotify's Family Plan (aks Spotify Premium Family plan) is a great deal that allows you to share a Spotify Premium account with up to six family members or friends for a discounted price. Each member will have their own separate account, so they can enjoy music ad-free and offline, just like a regular Spotify Premium user. The Family Plan also includes access to Spotify's vast library of songs, playlists, and podcasts.

How to sign up for Spotify Premium Family Plan?

To sign up for a Spotify family plan, you can do the following:

If there's any information entered by an invited member that Spotify can't confirm, they'll send them an email to reverify. They just need to enter their full address within 7 days of getting the email. If the email verification is successful, the account will stay on Premium Family.

Spotify will ask you to confirm that you live with the person that shared the Family Plan with you by sending you an email invite.

How much does Spotify Family Plan cost?

The Family Plan allows up to 6 people to use Spotify for $15.99 per month for 6 subscribers, which is very reasonable compared to the individual plan of $9.99 per person for 1 account. Since each person is assigned an account, the usability of this plan is the same as the individual plan.

Monthly fee for Spotify Family Plan

How to get Spotify Family Plan discount?

If you are a new user, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial of Spotify Premium, which includes access to the Family Plan. After the trial period ends, you will be charged the regular monthly fee for the Family Plan. However, Spotify occasionally offers discounts and promotions for new subscribers, so be sure to keep an eye out for these deals.

How does Spotify Family Plan work?

How to invite others?

To invite others to join your Spotify Family Plan, simply log in to your account on the Spotify website and navigate to the "Family" tab. From there, you can send email invitations to your family members or friends. Once they accept the invitation and create their own accounts, they will have access to all the benefits of Spotify Premium.

Will Spotify Family Plans know if I don't live with you?

Due to a change in the Terms of Service in 2019, Spotify will be using location data to determine if you are living together. While Spotify will not always track you, they will do so on a regular basis, so you will not be able to use the Family Plan even if you have family members who live far away from each other, let alone friends who do not live together.

What to do if your Spotify Family Plan has an Invitation Error

Here are three ways to deal with invitation errors with Spotify Family Plans.

If you are unable to resolve the issue on your own, please contact Customer Service and Support for assistance. The support site has a Q&A section for accounts and plans, and the community section is somewhere you can get answers from other users. If these two do not resolve your issue, please contact Customer Support using the Contact Us form.

What are the pros and cons of the Spotify family?

Comparison of Spotify Family and other Premium plans in the table

Questions and Answers about Spotify Family Plan

Here are some answers to the frequently asked questions about Spotify Premium Family Plan

Can I use the Spotify Family Plan with a family member who lives alone?

Spotify's Family Plan requires that the family member has the same address as the primary subscriber, and location data is used to verify this. Therefore, even if you are a family member, you will not be able to use Spotify Family Plan if you live alone and have a separate address.

What happens if it is discovered that I do not live with my Spotify Family Plan?

There have been cases of forced account deletion in other countries. Since the terms of service are the same, the risk of account deletion is unavoidable even in Japan.

Is it possible to share a Spotify Family Plan with a friend?

To join a family plan, you must have the same address as the primary subscriber, and your location will be checked, so any false reports will be exposed. However, since the emphasis is on "same address," it is possible to register even if you are friends if you share a room. However, the official version only mentions "family members," so please consider this carefully.

Who is the primary subscriber of Spotify Family Plan?

The applicant who registered the payment method will be the primary subscriber.

At what age can children start using Spotify Family Plan?

There is a feature called "Spotify Kids" available only for the Family plan, which is for ages 0-12. In other words, there are no age restrictions; Spotify Kids allows for toddler and family content, and includes parental controls that allow for developmentally appropriate filtering.

Can I join the Spotify family if I already have a premium?

Many parents have been looking for a solution to multiple Spotify accounts, and luckily, the streaming music platform has one. You don't need to give up on your Premium features to bring everyone under the same account if you opt for the Family Plan.

Share Spotify music with family without subscribing to Family Plan

If you find the Spotify Family Plan to be a little expensive and are tired of its limitations, but still want to share your music with family members, you can try another method to achieve this - downloading Spotify songs offline with MusicFab Spotify Converter.

With MusicFab Spotify Converter, you can download Spotify songs and podcasts to your hard drive and share them with your family. You don't even need to be connected to the Internet to use it, as it can be played completely offline. If everyone in the family is connected to the Internet, it will take up bandwidth and slow down the Internet, but if you download the music, it will play smoothly without any choppiness.

How to use MusicFab Spotify Converter

• Launch the software and tap the Spotify icon
• Login to the browser version of Spotify with your account
• Search for a playlist that contains the songs you want to download
• Play the playlist and all the songs will be loaded automatically.
• Select the song, format, and quality when the download pop-up appears
• Start downloading on the "Downloading" tab

Step1

Launch this software and tap the Spotify icon on the VIP Services section of the main interface.

Step2

Log into the browser version of Spotify with your account. And select to-be-converted music. This Spotify music converter will analyze the info of the track real quickly. 

Step3

A panel pops out from which you can select the output format and quality.

Step4

Tap on the Download Now button to finish the last step of enjoying Spotify music offline.

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed Spotify's Family Plan in detail. If you have more than one family member who uses Spotify, you can enjoy the service at a lower price than with an individual plan, but unfortunately, Spotify requires that you live at the same address, so you cannot share the service with family members who live far away. However, on the other hand, it has features that even small children can enjoy safely, so if you are interested in this service, please check it out.