Opera is offering 3 free months of Spotify Premium with its cool mini player upgrade

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Back successful 2024, Opera added Spotify arsenic an app that tin beryllium pinned and opened from the browser's sidebar. This diagnostic worked precise likewise to the messaging and AI apps (such arsenic Messenger, Slack, and Aira). With a caller update, the Spotify app has been improved to beryllium sleeker and much user-friendly. 

New features for the Spotify inMusic Player see the quality to detach the subordinate and determination it astir the browser truthful it's successful the cleanable presumption for your needs. A floating mini subordinate besides helps you pause, play, skip, and power music. Music is besides automatically muted and resumed erstwhile you load a web leafage that plays audio.

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It gets better.

With the latest mentation of Opera, you tin bask 3 months escaped of Spotify Premium. To to beryllium eligible for the three-month proceedings subscription, you person to beryllium caller to Spotify Premium and indispensable reside successful 1 of the pursuing countries: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK, the US, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, oregon Vietnam. 

To assertion the trial, unfastened the Opera Music Player from the sidebar and click connected the disposable offer. You'll beryllium redirected to the Spotify page, wherever the codification volition automatically beryllium applied.

This connection indispensable beryllium redeemed earlier Nov. 1, 2026, and you tin lone usage the connection once. After the proceedings expires, you'll person the enactment to cancel oregon to proceed utilizing Spotify Premium with a paid subscription (starting astatine $11.99 per period for the idiosyncratic plan).

The Opera Spotify mini subordinate works connected Linux, MacOS, and Windows. For it to work, you'll privation to download the latest mentation of the browser, which has the indispensable flags (#miniplayer-in-toolbar and #miniplayer-redesign-2) enabled.

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I've utilized the caller mini subordinate and tin attest that it's rather nice. It simplifies enactment with your presently playing music, without having to perpetually unfastened the sidebar. And the mini subordinate is unobtrusive capable that it won't get successful the mode of viewing website content. 

The mini subordinate is simply a spot finicky connected Linux. I tested it initially connected Pop!_OS and recovered the subordinate vanishes aft being moved. This is not the lawsuit connected MacOS. Hopefully, that small Linux bug volition beryllium fixed soon.

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