Why not just stop using spotify? You cant possibly stream enough to cost them more then they earn in a month they earn from you using them. Even on mute they can still count you as an active user when it comes to selling ads and promiting themselves.
If you really want to hurt spotify, use one of the services like Soundiiz that lets you export your lists and library, grab a 2 month trial of tidal for $2 and point tidal-dl to download it all for offline use. Get yourself a nice dedicated music player like a classic ipod running rockbox. If space is an issue convert from flac to opus.
If you really, really, want to hurt spotify do what i did and take the above instructions and then also spin up your own FunkWhale pod so everyone can also enjoy that music without giving corporations like spotify a dime.
You arent going beat corporations by using their products “too much”, the way to beat them is to replace them with self hosted alternatives.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you have a desktop and not a laptop, it’s always a great idea to get a separate sound controller. Either a dac/amp for nice headphones, volume controls on a wireless headset, or even buy a sound mixer like the rodecaster duo so you can assign independent applications to each physical slider on the mixer. I do that last one and it’s such a quality of life improvement if you use your PC a lot.
All of these options can’t be seen from Spotify.
qaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think a site can view your system volume. They can however see if a tab is specifically muted developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/MutedInfo
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I was not expecting that mixer to be nearly $1,000 lol
olicvb@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
you can assign independent applications > I know you can do this in windows without needing an extra sound controller it’s in ‘Settings>system>Sound>Volume Mixer’
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Interesting, I actually just adjust the volume knob on my desktop speakers so I didn’t think of this when I wrote the meme.
But now I kinda wanna see if I can hijack this monitoring it does and fake 100% volume to the application at all times…hmm welp to the mile long project list it goes!
Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I think if you just use voicemeeter and set it to a monitor as output that should work
shplane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What if the volume is really low? That’s how I do it