If you’ve heard of online music streaming services, you must have heard the name of Spotify. You might also have used it on your smartphone, but a smartphone is not always the ideal device to listen music. For instance, if you’re working on your laptop from the couch you may not want to reach out to your smartphone lying somewhere else only for the sake of listening music. That’s where Spotify Web Player comes in, because it allows you to listen your favorite music from a web browser. Wanna know more about it? Alright, let’s get into it:

Spotify Web Player: The solution to listen songs online

If you want to listen songs using Spotify through your web browser, the Spotify Web Player has been made available by the company to help you out. It’s basically a web version of Spotify to help you use listen songs easily without downloading any of its apps. However, it’s limited in functionality when compared against Spotify apps. But yes, if all that you want is a bit of music… you can certainly get it.

Requirements for using Spotify Web Player

There’re not a lot of requirements for using Spotify Web Player. All that you need is a computer with high-speed internet connection (at least 1 mbps download speed) and a Spotify account to get started (more on that in a minute). Once you have these two things, you can get started with Spotify Web Player.

Steps for using Spotify Web Player

Now when you know about Spotify Web Player, given below are the steps to use it:

  1. Open your preferred web browser and fire https://open.spotify.com from the address bar.
  2. Login with your Spotify account. If you don’t have one then sign up (the easiest way to sign up is via Facebook account). You’ll have to choose a package while signing up, and you can choose between the Free package or Premium package. The difference between both is that the free version allows you to only listen to the songs while premium version allows you to download them for offline listening. Also, there’re no ads in the premium version while free version has got some ads.
  3. Once you’ve signed up and logged in to your account, you can start searching for your desired music to start listening. Either you can get started with the top playlists given on homepage, or you can search for any of your desired songs using the search bar given in left pane. Once you’ve found a song that you would like to play you can start playing it by clicking the Play button on the left side of song’s name.

You can search for songs by using a number of different parameters: artist name, album name, song name etc. Also, as you listen to songs overtime Spotify will learn about your interests and will recommend new music based on those interests. You can find those recommendations by using the ‘Discover’ feature of Spotify.

Conclusion

So that’s how you can use Spotify using your web browser alone with help of Spotify Web Player. It’s one of the quickest ways to get some music in high-definition audio, which makes it a highly popular way of listening music worldwide. It’s such a successful service that music streaming providers in other countries have also taken this page out of Spotify’s playbook and launched their own respective versions of web-based music players. Therefore, you must give it a try.