Online song service Spotify is halving the amount of giveaway song that users can attend to.
Current users of its giveaway service will be paltry to 10 hours per month, half the time now offered.
New users will usually be able to attend to particular marks 5 times per month when the new chronicle of the service goes live in May.
The headlines has hurt fans who charge the definite of looking to change its model from giveaway to paid.
This is something denied by the firm.
Ken Parks, Spotify's arch calm executive told the BBC: "Our arch priority is to keep the giveaway service, that is what has done Spotify so popular.
"We're a company whose aspiration is to offer all the world's song to everybody that means flourishing the business and the user bottom to many times its stream size."
"Everything you do is written to make sure the users go on to have access to an extraordinary giveaway experience," he added.
Last month, the online song service voiced that it had a million profitable subscribers opposite Europe.
But the most of its 6.67m listeners use the giveaway service, that is subsidised by adverts.
Announcing the new skeleton in its blog the definite mentioned that the changes would primarily start heavier users.
"Most of you use Spotify to learn song - on median over 50 new marks per month, even after a year," it said.
"For any person who thinks they might attain these limits, you hope you'll ponder checking the our Unlimited and Premium services."
Experts have mentioned that Spotify's long-term profitability depends on users switching to the reward services that eliminate adverts and enable listeners to use smartphones.
"The economics of ad-supported song services just do not increase up and Spotify can't tarry long-term whilst it haemorrhages allowance from its giveaway service," mentioned Mark Mulligan, an researcher with Forrester Research.
One of the large problems for services such as Spotify is the fees demanded by the song attention - that work out at around 1p per play, according to Mr Mulligan.
"The record labels do not similar to having a permanent giveaway service around, it is similar to napping with the enemy.
"But as well many people design song to be giveaway now and if there are no bona fide giveaway services it will expostulate them back to the unlawful sector," he warned.
The initial reply on Spotify's blog read: "So long Spotify. It was good knowing you. Guess I'll return to pirating song once again then."
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