Awesome news, college students. Spotify knows you're poor, so it's kicking you a huge discount.
The music-streaming service on Tuesday announced that as of today, college students in the U.S. can get a premium subscription for $5 per month, which is half the normal price. If you think about it, that's basically less than the price of one large pizza per month.
A premium subscription will give you unlimited access to Spotify's library of more than 20 million songs, without having to listen to annoying ads. You'll also be able to download your favorite playlists for offline playback, and enjoy better sound quality than non-paying listeners.
A Spotify spokesman tells us that this is not a limited-time offer, meaning it will be around for a while, so you don't need to rush out and sign up right away if you're on the fence. However, once you sign up, the offer is good for 12 months, after which the price will go up to the usual $10 a month unless you terminate your subscription. But, if you're still a student at the end of the discount period, you can re-activate the promotion up to three more times, meaning you could potentially pay the discounted rate all four years of college.
If you're already a Spotify Premium subscriber, you can still activate the student discount offer. Head over to Spotify's website to sign up.
Meanwhile, in developer news, Spotify yesterday said that it will no longer accept new third-party app submissions for the desktop version of its software. Launched in 2011, the company's app platform allowed companies to build their own apps to run within Spotify.
In a statement, Spotify said that "partners have been asking us for a cheaper and easier way to own a presence inside Spotify and developers would like more ways to integrate Spotify with their own applications."
For more, see PCMag's review of Spotify for Android and the slideshow below.