Spotify

If you pay for a Spotify 'Individual', 'Duo' or 'Family' subscription and don't mind giving up audiobooks, you can now save up to £24 a year by switching to one of its new 'Basic' plans. These don't have audiobooks but cost £1 to £2 a month less and let you keep all your other benefits, such as ad-free listening, downloads and high-quality audio – though only existing subscribers can access them for now.

Music streaming service Spotify has announced it's hiking the prices on most of its paid plans by up to £2 a month (£24 a year). Below we explain who's affected, when you'll see the changes and how to cut costs – whether you want to stick with Spotify or not.

Spotify subscribers who use its Premium subscription will see prices rise by £1 a month (or £12 a year) in a month's time, the music streaming service has announced. The cost of its Duo and Family subscriptions will also increase by the same amount. But if you're unhappy about the shake-up, you can cancel penalty-free.  

Online retailer Amazon unveiled its new music-streaming service Amazon Music Unlimited in the UK yesterday, with a subscription priced at £9.99/month. But there are a range of ways to get it for less – including a trick which means most can sign up for a year and pay the equivalent of just £6.58/month.

Spotify users can now listen free to their favourite tracks as many times as they like, after the music streaming service lifted its five-plays-per-song limit.

Free streaming site Spotify is cutting the amount of music users can listen to as part of its 'Open' service.