SPOTIFY is loosening the restrictions on free accounts - and it could be enough to tempt some paying subscribers to switch.

The change comes just days after the world's most popular streaming app launched the much-requested lossless audio for premium members.

Spotify faces increased competition from rivals like Apple, who have just expanded a new tool to make switching to Apple Music even easier.

Now Spotify is giving its free users greater freedom to listen to what they like, as opposed to being completely bound by playlists, albums and dreaded skip limits.

Pick & Play allows those with a free account to listen to "any song you want".

Skip restrictions aren't gone entirely though.

Spotify says there is a "daily allocated amount of on-demand time" and once you've used it up you wil

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