Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding
Every single time I use Spotify, after the first advert it says to enjoy the next 30 minutes ad free. Then after a 2 minute long song, I get 5 minutes of adverts ๐. Every single time
Edit: using mutify now, thank you everyone!
Spotify kind of sucks. I've been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.
Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that's awesome ๐ )
10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don't think about not having it.
I quit using Spotify entirely after https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration
They alao have done very little about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.
Adverts are poison for the mind.
It infuriates me too, it's an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY
why don't you have an adblocker? I haven't seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Wait that's a thing in Mobile devices?
Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.
If you're on iPhone, SOL or use Spotify web with brave browser (in-built ad blocker).
If you're on Android plenty of APKs that'll disable ads and make you 'premium'
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don't use apple products but it works on everything else
Use spot tube
FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription*. Or pirate.
*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
Actually not.
I like listening to the WAN show podcast from LTT. Amd as most here prpbably know they are very keen on monetizing a lot on their content.
As it turns out Spotify has different settings between podcasts and music. And they offer the creators to enable ads (even for premium subs) inbetween podcast episodes.
So if you queue the LTT-podcast after a regular song, you can get advertisements before and after an episode.
You can scrub through or skip the ad but it requires manual interaction to do so. And hot keys like on (BT-)headsets don't work.
I confirmed their existence with the Spotify support
Tbh I kinda donโt mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it
Podcast ads are easy to skip. Still, i pay subscription to my favourite podcast network to support them, and it's more convenient not having to skip.
This episode is brought to you by Me Undies
I tried YouTube today for the first time in years. Its unwatchable. The frog must have been slowly boiling for years to have so many people accept what Youtube is now. Just wow.
I managed to watch about 10 minutes but had about 5 ads during that time, taking up several minutes of my time. It broke my focus and I forgot what the video was about.
Back to Newpipe.
Why are you not using adblock and/or revanced?
I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I'd just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.
So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
Also, stop fucking using it
Stop using services that don't care about their users for
's sake
I used to get so annoyed at the auto correct to ducking but after a niece and nephew were introduced as variables I've found ducking the most effective sentence enhancer that doesn't provoke a parent teacher conference for my brother lol
Real x3
Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy
I pirate, use soundcloud and buy vinyls as much as I can.
Only reason not to ditch spotify is that you want your donations to go to turning america into more of a 3rd world shithole, starting world war 3 and disrupting the entire global economy, or you really love ai music being shoved down your throats in order to destroy smaller artists and benfit the 3 giant lables.
I dunno why you left! I've never understood what was good or better than pirating about these streaming services. Everyone says convenience, but I don't think that's the real reason, because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music.
I pay for YT premium and I use it like 40+ hours a week. That's the convenience, it doesn't cost a whole lot to me and I can put in 0 effort.
It is convenience and easy to use. Both are equally important. I already have the arr stack perfectly running for movies and series but lidarr just seems difficult to work with. Been resorting to manually download few from those online tools that take it from tidal or qobuz but it's cumbersome. Tried to just buy qobuz, tidal and deezer but none of them are available here and couldn't get around it with VPN either. The only option I have are Spotify, apple, YouTube and amazon which I absolutely hate and refuse to buy because of the companies running it. Are there any plugins people are using for lidarr to pull from api or a script that I can write myself of better torrent sites that have consistent quality and massive library.
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
I like Spotify for music discovery (I don't have the time to discover music on my own). $42 CAD per year for premium is worth it for me.
I'm already running an ARR stack, so there would only be about 10 minutes of effort if I ever change my mind and add Lidarr.
Well the original reason I went to spotify was kinda cause someone I know was curious what my spotify wrapped would look like :3.. and then I kinda just never switched back, cause I couldn't be bothered adding all the new songs I listened to on spotify to my playlist at the time x3
of course ads are inconvenient, the choice is between doing your own discovery and handling your own library with synchronization and what not, vs paying $12 a month (US).
I personally have no patience nor desire to manage the library myself and discover tracks, so it makes sense to me. But I'd rather not listen to anything than to listen to ads every 5 minutes.
because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music
You don't get ads when you actually pay for the service....
There are many pros and cons. They are different things. While the main reason is that commercial solutions are selected to be as accessible as possible while piracy solutions require the user to make a lot more decisions (many of which can be made wrong), there area also valid reasons that spring directly from being different mediums. It is not hard to discover these reasons by simply trying it for a week.
Plenty of apps play Spotify and YouTube music without ads, I've been using outertune.
If only Lidarr was better. I want to be able to have it use Spotify algorithms. I want to give Lidarr a song or genre and have it just start downloading the songs as if it were playing the radio. So I can discover new music based on what Spotify thinks I would like. I don't like that the wanted is all music ever released.
I miss What.CD so much for this reason. They had the "Artist Web" on every artist and album page that linked you to similar music, and even showing which links were higher percentage matches.
Discovering new music on there was so easy and fun. I even ran across several people that released their music exclusively on What.CD through those webs.
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
Slskd is nice
+1
This is one service I pay for and never had had to worry about ads. I can skip around, download and work it just like my offline music with no differences
How many AI songs you have tho? Spotify has other ways to make money for itself and its cronies, namely by shoving fake generated music that big lables own down your playlist so the big label cartel gets more profit.
Probably not that many since I carefully curate my list and generally only listen to local artists or international that Iโm familiar with.
I'm also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering
I feel the same about youtube. I pay for premium, but sometimes creators bake in their own ads. I wish youtube would pay creators enough so they wouldn't have to do it.
Those arent spotify ads, they're the ads from the podcast. To my knowledge unless its a "spotify exclusive" all they are doing is fetching the RSS feed for you, not paying the creator anything regardless of your subscription status
And now they're showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.
Thereโs no reason to waste your time on ads.
God why does this not have more upvotes and why isn't it the first comment. I literally was screaming how someone could be on here and not possibly know of the various ways to get around shitty ads.
YT music with ReVanced is a fucking dream, I love it. Spotify is probably also great. Didn't even know about the iOS and Windows apps, but I hated iPhone and finally ditched Windows for Fedora so I don't keep track of those as much.
But seriously they have so many options, especially on Android. Like there's a FOSS app or patched option for literally everything on there.
Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
Yeah, your right. uBlock Origin block advertisement on the browser. However, Spicetify blocks advertisement within the desktop app and allows for multiple add-ons/ extension plus customizing your entire app.
The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Youtube music gives you a better experience.
Just wait until you hear about piracy!
spicetify
I will say nothing else
Ohh, also revanced spotify
For downloading there's lucida.to
Use spotube or simpmusic. Its not like spotify actually pays their artists jackshit. Just make sure to send small artists a few bucks if you really like their stuff
It's a trap. Its been that way as long as I can remember. If any music service offers a longer ad for uninterrupted music, don't do it.
Idk how it can even be considered a trap or legal its straight up false advertising, textbook definition
This is one service where the free version really isnโt worth it.
The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.
I noticed this happening recently as last night. I was wondering what the fuck was going on. 30 minutes my ass, for example, I listened to Alice in Chains' Them Bones which is a 2 minute song, after the "promise" of 30 minutes ad-free and I got ad after fucking ad. Then I get a song, then it's ad after fucking ad. I'll be lucky I get 2 more songs before it's more ads.
I'm actually going to be looking into a media player that has bluetooth in it so I don't have to ever put up with this spotify shit.
Laughs in Navidrome
I can't get good automatic playlists on navidrome. Nor any good way to automatically mix my collection satisfactory....
Not entirely automatic, but I found that Navidrome (at least when you use a third party client like Feishen or Symfonium) has smart playlists. I use that to write some simple queries like:
By genre:
By listening habits:
and so on.
Obviously, the genre smart playlists assume your music has Genres tags. I use Picard (with the Last.fm genre plugin) for that.
Soulseek my beloved.
Ripping straight from tidal and self hosting with navidrome ๐
That's something I couldn't listen to, so it's not Mildly infuriating, it's the upper tier..:-)
Only 5 minutes of uninterrupted adverts? They said 30 minutes. Liars.
It's worse than that! It's 2 minutes of music followed by 5 minutes of adverts
So they're shorting you 25 minutes on the promised 30 minutes of uninterrupted adverts. Wankers!