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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Real x3

  Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy

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  • madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice

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    • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • jared@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plenty of apps play Spotify and YouTube music without ads, I’ve been using outertune.

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Slskd is nice

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      +1

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why are you not using adblock and/or revanced?

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve actually subscribed to premium. YouTube + YT Music.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I have a few colleagues that did that too. But I dont want to support big tech by being paying user.

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My sympathy

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  • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering

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    • Cenotaph@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Michal@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How many AI songs you have tho?

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    • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, stop fucking using it

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    • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop using services that don’t care about their users for

      fuck

      's sake

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    • 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • IOS; Sideloading EeveeSpotify.
  • Windows; specitify
  • Android; ReVanced.

  There’s no reason to waste your time on ads.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Google music gives you a better experience.

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  • Probius@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t you force it to never play a video? My yt music never plays video by itself.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription. Or pirate.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This episode is brought to you by Me Undies

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it

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    • Michal@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I quit using Spotify entirely after swedenherald.com/…/this-is-how-much-spotify-donat…

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  • isaaclw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They alao have done nothing about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.

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• theoneIno@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  spicetify

  I will say nothing else

  Ohh, also revanced spotify

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  • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    legit I pay for Spotify and I love spicetify, been considering canceling it because spicetify and revanced spotify exist

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    • theoneIno@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      do it, this megacorp doesn’t deserve your hard earned money

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  • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or SpotX for Windows, you just paste and run a powershell command line.

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• squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Adverts are poison for the mind.

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.

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  • Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s mostly for my android phone while I’m at work.

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    • console@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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’

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.

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    • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).

      i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      with dns

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • shitescalates@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• hmmm@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amateur. 120 gb myself.

    (Seriously though, that’s awesome 👍 )

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just wait until you hear about piracy!

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is one service where the free version really isn’t worth it.

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• seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For downloading there’s lucida.to

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.

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• CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It infuriates me too, it’s an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Use spot tube

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• Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk how it can even be considered a trap or legal its straight up false advertising, textbook definition

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don’t think about not having it.

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Laughs in Navidrome

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t get good automatic playlists on navidrome. Nor any good way to automatically mix my collection satisfactory…

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    • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Soulseek my beloved.

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  • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ripping straight from tidal and self hosting with navidrome 😁

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• middlemanSI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s something I couldn’t listen to, so it’s not Mildly infuriating, it’s the upper tier…:-)

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• nope@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could YT music-revanced. Just sayin’

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only 5 minutes of uninterrupted adverts? They said 30 minutes. Liars.

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  • Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s worse than that! It’s 2 minutes of music followed by 5 minutes of adverts

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So they’re shorting you 25 minutes on the promised 30 minutes of uninterrupted adverts. Wankers!

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• HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just download my songs using freetube, load then onto my phone, and use a FOSS music player to make my playlists. That way, even when I drive out into areas with spotty connections I get my tunes coming through

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• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s basically my Pandora experience. They’ll have ads where if you click to watch a video, you’ll get X amount of time, usually an hour, ad free. There’s about a 50% chance the ad will cause the app to crash, but only AFTER the ad finishes playing. And once I start the app up again, it doesn’t remember the offer or that I watched the ad. Same thing if I close the app, accidentally or otherwise. If I start it back up, that ad free hour is gone.

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