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
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.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 16 hours ago
Real x3
Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 16 hours 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.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 4 hours 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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 16 hours 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 12 hours 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 16 hours 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.
jared@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
Plenty of apps play Spotify and YouTube music without ads, I’ve been using outertune.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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 15 hours 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 13 hours ago
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Slskd is nice
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 13 hours ago
+1