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 😑. Every single time
Real x3
Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy
Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding
Submitted 8 months ago by Zugyuk@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 months ago
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 8 months ago
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 months ago
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
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 year (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.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
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.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
jared@mander.xyz 8 months ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 8 months ago
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.
majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 8 months ago
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
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.
brb@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why are you not using adblock and/or revanced?
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I was using the official YouTube app since I wanted to use chromecast to get a video up on my tv.
I havent used revanced, seems interesting also. But Newpipe just does what I need so im happy.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ve actually subscribed to premium. YouTube + YT Music.
1984@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Yeah I have a few colleagues that did that too. But I dont want to support big tech by being paying user.
essell@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My sympathy
camelbeard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.
ramble81@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 8 months ago
I’m also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 8 months ago
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
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
Michal@programming.dev 8 months ago
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.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, the complaining about spotify’s free tier is something I just don’t get. I grew up listening to the goddamn radio. No choice in what to listen to and ads all the time. But when your jam came on, it felt great every time.
I’m on a family plan with some friends. I’ve discovered a ton of new music because of Spotify. I’ve gone to many shows, bought merch, vinyls, for bands I never would’ve known had it not been for Spotify.
I’m just not sure what people want, but it reeks of entitlement. If you’re gonna pirate music, by all means, go to town. Nobody cares.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
How many AI songs you have tho?
ramble81@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Probably not that many since I carefully curate my list and generally only listen to local artists or international that I’m familiar with.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Also, stop fucking using it
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Stop using services that don’t care about their users for
fuck
's sake
11111one11111@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
- IOS; Sideloading EeveeSpotify.
- Windows; specitify
- Android; ReVanced.
There’s no reason to waste your time on ads.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
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.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 8 months ago
The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Google music gives you a better experience.
Probius@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I hate that YouTube Music keeps trying to make me waste my bandwidth to on videos that have worse audio quality than when it just plays the song. 0/10 smoothbrain design, probably just to sell more video ads.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Can’t you force it to never play a video? My yt music never plays video by itself.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription. Or pirate.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This episode is brought to you by Me Undies
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
^*^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
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ImageWolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it
Michal@programming.dev 8 months ago
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.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I quit using Spotify entirely after swedenherald.com/…/this-is-how-much-spotify-donat…
isaaclw@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They alao have done nothing about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.
theoneIno@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
spicetify
I will say nothing else
Ohh, also revanced spotify
archonet@lemy.lol 8 months ago
legit I pay for Spotify and I love spicetify, been considering canceling it because spicetify and revanced spotify exist
theoneIno@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
do it, this megacorp doesn’t deserve your hard earned money
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Or SpotX for Windows, you just paste and run a powershell command line.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Adverts are poison for the mind.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s mostly for my android phone while I’m at work.
console@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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’
Psythik@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
with dns
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
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.
shitescalates@midwest.social 8 months ago
It’s amazing it became so popular. I got sick of the lack of true shuffle and radio and went back to Pandora. It’s so much better than Spotify I can’t imagine going back.
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that’s awesome 👍 )
dan1101@lemm.ee 8 months ago
10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I went back to just downloading it. Got a 512gb SD card in my phone with 180GB of music on it and about 40GB of podcasts. Spotify is just for when I want to find new stuff to listen to.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just wait until you hear about piracy!
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
This is one service where the free version really isn’t worth it.
seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 8 months ago
For downloading there’s lucida.to
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 8 months ago
It infuriates me too, it’s an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Use spot tube
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Idk how it can even be considered a trap or legal its straight up false advertising, textbook definition
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don’t think about not having it.
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Laughs in Navidrome
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 8 months ago
I can’t get good automatic playlists on navidrome. Nor any good way to automatically mix my collection satisfactory…
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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:
- Ambient
- Downtempo
By listening habits:
- All Favorites
- Rediscover Old Favorites
- Last 100 Songs Played
- Never Listened To
- Top 100 Songs
and so on
Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Soulseek my beloved.
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Ripping straight from tidal and self hosting with navidrome 😁
middlemanSI@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s something I couldn’t listen to, so it’s not Mildly infuriating, it’s the upper tier…:-)
Bridgetjacobson@programming.dev 5 months ago
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
nope@jlai.lu 8 months ago
You could YT music-revanced. Just sayin’
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I used Spotify once years ago. wanted to listen to the Beatles or Bowie or something.
first song was good. then they started playing Sinatra, then Katy Perry, then someone else.
I removed it just because if I told you to play “X” you play “X”.
so glad I still have my 500gb collection of mp3s.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Only 5 minutes of uninterrupted adverts? They said 30 minutes. Liars.
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s worse than that! It’s 2 minutes of music followed by 5 minutes of adverts
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
So they’re shorting you 25 minutes on the promised 30 minutes of uninterrupted adverts. Wankers!
Babalugats@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Get this on F-Droid
abertschi.github.io/ad-free/landing/