Need help- trying to figure out if Spotify would work for my senior living community

Question

We are a senior community that has activity programs running in like 7-10 areas in the building.  Music is a big part of our day.  CD's for all these areas is getting crazy.  There has got to be a better way.  We want to be able to pick music genre, a song even to hear and have playlists.  What we have currently:  We have some laptops and desktop computer using windows.  We also have a few MP3 players, boomboxes and IPODS.  We also have Wifi.  But sometimes of course we have Wifi issues.  We have access to usually a laptop or boombox.  We could use the MP3 players/ipods.    I like the idea of playlists that we share, pulling music that is alike.  These are my quesitons or issues below: Things are my questions:1.   Can we have 1 account be made for different appliances and be on spotify at the same time?  Premium said 3 but you can't be both logged in under each account.  Is this still true?  Postings were old. 2.  With even the Spotify family can you be on to the account at the same time?  3.  What would be our best solution for this for accounts- would we have to set up different account for each device if we want to play at the same time?  Any ideas - I just really need suggestions4.  If we did our laptops, we would need speakers?  Also for boomboxes- is this possible?  I am assuming using like an MP3 player or IPOD.  Spotify work through them?  Is it certain type of MP3 players and IPODS.  I believe a few of ours are older ones. 5.  If we have tons of accounts, can I start all accounts on same computer?    Would I set them up by each device we have?6.  Can you run ipod/mp3 through large TV speakers?  or laptop music through big screen tv speakers?7. For the music itself, can you pick what exact songs in playlist?  Can you make lots of playlist per account?  I saw 3,300 songs but can you name the playlist and stay forever?  Sorry for all the questions.  I am trying to figure out if this is even possible or worth doing.  If we have seperate accounts - how much monthly is that?  Is there a deal for that many devices?  Thanks  

Answer 1

Spotify has 2 different account types. You can see the difference between the two at the bottom of the homepage: http://spotify.com
1: Each Spotify account can only play on one device at a time. You can have the account logged into as many devices as you want, but you can only play on one device at a time.
2: With Spotify family, there are several Spotify accounts under one plan. Each account is able to play on one device at a time.
Check out the family help guide here:
https://support.spotify.com/learn-more/guides/#!/article/spotify-family
Also check out this thread for information:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Accounts-and-Subscriptions/Spotify-Family-Q-amp-A/td-p/988520
3: Yes, as stated above
4: You wouldn't necessarily have to have speakers hooked up to the laptop. If the laptop has speakers or you input headphones, that should work. Spotify doesn't work with MP3 players/iPods. To use Spotify you have to have the Spotify app.
You can find a list of compatible devices here:
https://support.spotify.com/learn-more/guides/#!/article/spotify-system-requirements
7: Yes you can search Spotify and add any song you want to a playlist. And you can also make lots of playlists. Each playlist has a limit of 10,000 songs. The 3,333 limit you saw is for the offline limit on premium accounts. Up to 3,333 songs can be downloaded for offline listening.
Hopefully this information helps. The family plan can have up to 5 accounts. It might end up being too expensive for what you need. The free plan has ads, but it still might be worth looking into.