Paying for multiple accounts from one address is (fingers crossed) unlikely to be flagged up anywhere. Of course, having enough Spotify Family Plans to farm the streams is going to look a bit suspicious, but Spotify are much more concerned about multiple addresses using the same plan – the terms and conditions of the Family Plan require all the users to be under the same roof.

That is 360 computers constantly streaming your music, and over a million streams (1,036,800, to be exact) a day. If you were very organised, very patient and knew your way around a cable tidy, you could very plausibly fit 360 of them in an IKEA Pax Wardrobe. The good thing about the Raspberry Pi is that it’s very small. You’re basically proposing the same kind of thing as bitcoin mining, but for Spotify streams, which requires a lot less from the computer. You’d need to put the code together, then flash that to every SD card and just change whatever login details you needed to.

“You want to set each one up so that when you turn it on, as soon as the device powers up, it triggers the Spotify playlist and starts automatically playing. “It would be a pain in the arse to set up, but it’s probably doable,” says Cal King, photographer and Raspberry Pi enthusiast who has used the computers for all kinds of devices, like a screen that constantly displays the front page of the newspaper and a playlist shuffler. It doesn’t have a headphone jack so, presumably – and there are a few presumablys in this theory – you could turn up the volume on Spotify, but not hear a peep. It does, however, have wifi capability, and with a bit of elbow-grease and an SD card you can run Spotify on there.

A Raspberry Pi Zero W is a cheap computer without a monitor, keyboard, internal hard drive or mouse.

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