obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Anon gets scammed
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also the only one with a Linux client
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
For Qobuz there is an unofficial native client, with DAC passthrough: github.com/vicrodh/qbz
Works very well.
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i use web and android apps for yt music and bandcamp
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i use the th-ch GitHub for youtube music on linux (also has ad blockers, themes, and plugins)
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
If this is the actual rationale, I will collect someone’s ankles
naught101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No, money down!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Real radio be like: 30 minutes of music free ads.
gibson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
At least real radio doesn’t collect your information
underisk@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
More of a technical limitation than an intentional choice, but sure.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Until you dial in to one of those give-away events, sure.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
What do you do when you’re not driving a school bus?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
May I introduce you to our lord and savior Groove Salad on SomaFM?
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 months ago
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
You can sue them.
Excited to collect $.26 in damages after six years in court.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They probably have a forced arbitration clause. Using an arbitrator of their choice, of course.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
So, over the course of a year I get 30 minutes that aren’t ads?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Or buy ad space to play a short song.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Y’all are getting full tracks?
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Sending files from one device to another has been made intentionally difficult by phone makers.
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Usually you just redirect some host names to localhost and all your ad problems magically disappear.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
Did they say thirty minutes in a row?
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
Big fan of Bandcamp here. I assume it’s a fairly different set of music creators, though.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
Back when I used spotify, it was exclusively via desktop browser with ublock, never had an ad load
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Cracked apks exist, people.
svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It was LAME to ENCODE music.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
is self-hosted streaming a thing?
imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
use the Arr stack, AAARRR sail the seas.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now that’s interesting. Gotta look into Arr.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Jellyfin is how I host it. You can connect with Navidrome, the Jellyfin app, or just with a browser.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thanks. Gotta check it out.
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
so the old-school way is still The Way. Good to know. Thx. Gotta dust off my MP3 player.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 2 months ago
Kind of a stretch to call it getting scammed when he didn’t pay anything…
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Payment doesn’t mean money. You can pay in labour, or in gold, or in your time.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 2 months ago
Yes, exactly. And by not paying for the subscription you agree to pay with your time.
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well it does but only on the website where your ad blocker gets them gone for you.
jeffep@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t this comment an ad for the pirate bay?
Sophiaava@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I don’t understand how
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Sirius pulled that shit too, never understood how it could possibly be legal
ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 2 months ago
Most people don’t care enough to pursue it and any who do probably don’t have the money.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 2 months ago
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ads take up those “30 minutes of ad-free listening”
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I’ll just keep downloading music thanks.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
yt-dlp xyzrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bla
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Vlc download and streaming tool my beloved