New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Spotify has announced a massive upgrade to its free accounts, making the biggest revamp in years and giving the free users the feature they deserved in the first place. Free users represent more than half of the platform's user base and are gaining more control and flexibility over playback, making Spotify's free tier closer than ever to the premium experience.

The headline feature of the announcement is "Pick & Play", allowing the free users to choose and listen to the songs from a playlist, album or even via search. Before this, the users were being forced to play the music on shuffle. Free users can now bypass the frustration of skipping through the whole playlist to play the song that they actually wanted.

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