obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Anon gets scammed
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also the only one with a Linux client
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.
ximtor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
There’s an unofficial one for Pandora as well. I’m not claiming Pandora is a great service, it just comes ad free with my phone plan.
gopher@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
For Qobuz there is an unofficial native client, with DAC passthrough: github.com/vicrodh/qbz
Works very well.
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i use web and android apps for yt music and bandcamp
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i use the th-ch GitHub for youtube music on linux (also has ad blockers, themes, and plugins)
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
You get 30 minutes of ad-free listening, but not all in a row. Sounds like you got 8 minutes worth already; after this add, you can get another 8 minutes.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If this is the actual rationale, I will collect someone’s ankles
naught101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, money down!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Real radio be like: 30 minutes of music free ads.
gibson@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
At least real radio doesn’t collect your information
underisk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
More of a technical limitation than an intentional choice, but sure.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Until you dial in to one of those give-away events, sure.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m a school bus driver and in the mornings the kids beg me to play music on the radio. So I turn it on, set it to “SCAN” and then I don’t hear one fucking actual song the entire rest of the ride. Even the local classical station is somehow just people babbling.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Oof. Your bus doesn’t happen to have a way of using one of those Bluetooth FM blaster things does it? Just play something off your phone through that tuned to the right station on the radio. The one I drove didn’t havr nothing for that, but mine was old as shit.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Music streaming makes this worse. Radio has become a race to the bottom. If you’re listening to radio you probably prefer the bullshit gossip.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What do you do when you’re not driving a school bus?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
May I introduce you to our lord and savior Groove Salad on SomaFM?
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
capuccino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can sue them. If is not specified that must be in a row you CAN sue, or at least you can report them with the competent organization. It’s in normal language, not legal language. People using spotify are not lawyers, are normal people. If the thing says “30 minutes free” it do must mean that, no “ooohhh you mean, 30 minutes, like, in row??” bullshit.
Fuck Spotify. Also, I can’t hear the music that I want in their free plan, because I choose some song and the platform plays whatever they want. Again, fuck them.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can sue them.
Excited to collect $.26 in damages after six years in court.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They probably have a forced arbitration clause. Using an arbitrator of their choice, of course.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s 30 minutes ad free spread over the duration of your subscription. I thought everybody had figured it out.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So, over the course of a year I get 30 minutes that aren’t ads?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Yup. And sometime last year they made getting a cracked version of Spotify an incredible pain in the ass and the guy updating the crack stopped supporting it and instead is choosing to focus on YouTube ReVanced.
My library on Spotify is over 6k songs. Been trying to slowly get them downloaded onto my phone.
Taokan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In retrospect, it could be hilariously worth it to buy an ad spot and just play that “enjoy 30 minutes of ad free listening” blurb.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Or buy ad space to play a short song.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Y’all are getting full tracks?
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Man I haven’t gotten that “30 minutes of uninterrupted listening” shit in a few months. I swear, they’ve been slowly increasing the amount of ads per song, from like 1 ad per 4 songs to I shit you not, 2 ads per song. I usually have to restart the web page since it gets stuck on desktop, or close the app on mobile. They’re probably overcompensating since they’re salty they aren’t getting any revenue from me.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll never understand why people don’t just make playlists of music and save it down locally.
I had no less than sixteen hours of music in CDs stuffed in my glove box back in college. Maybe I’d throw on a little NPR if I was curious about the news. But why on God’s Green Earth would you subject yourself to the garbage music channels available in the modern era?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Sending files from one device to another has been made intentionally difficult by phone makers.
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I for example like the fresh experience so i really enjoy spotify discover weekly to listen through and find something i can put into my playlist. So in a way i dont have fixed playlist just my liked list
But i also pay for spotify beacuse i listen to so much music with constant new additions to my playlist i legitematly think its one subscription thats worth the money and pretty much the only one i even use with the exception of a month of Netflix when new bogdan boner egzorcysta drops on Netflix roughly once a year ( not really possible to buy separately, but that man is a genius of polish cinematography so i will suffer through it so that he may get my support and continue his work ).
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hate the pay for ad-free subscription model. They you people’s personal data to optimize the experience, making their ads as annoying and disorienting as possible.
When Reddit first unveiled their subscription, they began spamming my phone with obnoxious herpes advertisements. The ad just said “Herpes?” in big purple letters. Since this particular subject invoked a sense of fear and anxiety, it theoretically should have made me more likely to pay for a subscription.
hobata@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Usually you just redirect some host names to localhost and all your ad problems magically disappear.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Damn, they let you get 2 whole songs in? Usually I get 3 ads right after “30 minutes of ad free listening” one
bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did they say thirty minutes in a row?
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I buy my music track by track on iTunes, I have never got an ad when listening, nor do I have to keep paying for the privilege.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Big fan of Bandcamp here. I assume it’s a fairly different set of music creators, though.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Bandcamp for indie artists, though I am starting to see more bigger artists there.
Many bigger artists sell digital albums direct on their websites. If not they sell a CD you can easily rip.
Otherwise I use 7 Digital, then HD Tracks.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Back when I used spotify, it was exclusively via desktop browser with ublock, never had an ad load
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Cracked apks exist, people.
svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
It’s not telling you that you will receive 30 minutes of ad-free listening. It’s suggesting that you do that by upgrading to a more expensive tier. Or by other means 🏴☠️
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
[deleted]moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It was LAME to ENCODE music.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 4 weeks ago
Kind of a stretch to call it getting scammed when he didn’t pay anything…
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
He was scammed of his time watching the long ad that promised ad free 30 min. The revenue Spotify gets from advertising companies is only there because users listen to those ads, so users are also providing a service to Spotify.
Not that big of a stretch.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
It also comes down to whether or not it’s reasonable to expect to be able to access streaming media for free. You are making a choice: listen to advertisements, or pay the subscription.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Payment doesn’t mean money. You can pay in labour, or in gold, or in your time.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Yes, exactly. And by not paying for the subscription you agree to pay with your time.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
is self-hosted streaming a thing?
imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
use the Arr stack, AAARRR sail the seas.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now that’s interesting. Gotta look into Arr.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Jellyfin is how I host it. You can connect with Navidrome, the Jellyfin app, or just with a browser.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thanks. Gotta check it out.
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
If you don’t have a particularly large collection, use yt-dl to get audio files and store them locally on your devices (or possibly on an SD card if your phone still supports one)
BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so the old-school way is still The Way. Good to know. Thx. Gotta dust off my MP3 player.
fodor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well it does but only on the website where your ad blocker gets them gone for you.
jeffep@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t this comment an ad for the pirate bay?
Sophiaava@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand how
hOrni@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Isn’t Spotify so cheap, that there’s no point in using the free version? I’m using Tidal and it is, in fact, so cheap that there is no point in using the free version.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sirius pulled that shit too, never understood how it could possibly be legal
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Most people don’t care enough to pursue it and any who do probably don’t have the money.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey we said you get 30 minutes we never said consecutive… I bet you have like a bank of stored minutes and they continue expiring while you’re not listening. So legally you get the full 30 minutes…. Just not when you expected to.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ads take up those “30 minutes of ad-free listening”
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I’ll just keep downloading music thanks.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
yt-dlp xyzrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bla
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Vlc download and streaming tool my beloved