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Spotify

Online music streaming service.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Windows and Linux

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing: playlists.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Create shared playlists or share individual songs with your Facebook friends with just a click of a button.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Spotify is free, with trade-offs (account, ads, data or attribution) detailed below.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Weaknesses

  • Account required
  • Closed source

About

Access all of your favorite music, discover new songs, and share music online with your friends - all in one place. Create shared playlists or share individual songs with your Facebook friends with just a click of a button. Follow your favorite artists or friends to know what they are listening to, and then save the songs to your own playlists. Spotify is the best way to have access to millions of songs and all the latest hits.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (publisher, licence, platforms, version) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from spotify.com (account, free status) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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