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

Edit: using mutify now, thank you everyone!

    • Sixty
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      43 months ago

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

    • @archonet@lemy.lol
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      53 months ago

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

        • @archonet@lemy.lol
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          23 months ago

          I would but there’s a site I use called RVRB that only works with Spotify Premium AFAIK, and I enjoy the site too much to give it up. Great way to discover new music.

    • @ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      73 months 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.

    • Oniononon
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      23 months 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.

      • @TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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        83 months 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

      • SaltySalamander
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        13 months ago

        because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music

        You don’t get ads when you actually pay for the service…

      • Eager Eagle
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        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 month (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.

      • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        163 months ago

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

      • @Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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        113 months 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.

      • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        23 months 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.

      • @RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        23 months 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.

      • Jerkface (any/all)
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        33 months 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.

  • Nyticus
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    I noticed this happening recently as last night. I was wondering what the fuck was going on. 30 minutes my ass, for example, I listened to Alice in Chains’ Them Bones which is a 2 minute song, after the “promise” of 30 minutes ad-free and I got ad after fucking ad. Then I get a song, then it’s ad after fucking ad. I’ll be lucky I get 2 more songs before it’s more ads.

    I’m actually going to be looking into a media player that has bluetooth in it so I don’t have to ever put up with this spotify shit.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        23 months ago

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

    • Shimitar
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      13 months ago

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

      • @ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works
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        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

        and so on.

        Obviously, the genre smart playlists assume your music has Genres tags. I use Picard (with the Last.fm genre plugin) for that.

        • Shimitar
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          23 months ago

          tell me about Picard? I heard of that… Bit never tried it. My collection come from lidarr

          • @ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works
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            33 months ago

            MusicBrainz Picard

            It’s a GUI tool that gives you the ability to tag songs in bulk. It uses the MusicBrainz database to provide relevant metadata, and also provides user plugins (like the Last.fm plugin I mentioned)

            I get my songs in batches (through Bandcamp and youtube-dlp) every couple of months, so GUI is fine for me.

            However, I’m seeing a CLI alternative called https://beets.io/ ? Apparently it is a CLI tool that also queries the MusicBrainz database (or Beatport, or Discogs), and apparently integrates well with Lidarr. I never tried it, however.

  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    303 months 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

    • Oniononon
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      How many AI songs you have tho? Spotify has other ways to make money for itself and its cronies, namely by shoving fake generated music that big lables own down your playlist so the big label cartel gets more profit.

      • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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        23 months 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.

    • @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      23 months 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.

    • Hjalmar
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      103 months ago

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

      • @Michal@programming.dev
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        13 months 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.

        • MrScottyTay
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          23 months ago

          Use sponsorblock on YouTube for desktop or smarttube on Android tv

        • @RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 months ago

          Sponsors often pay significantly more than YouTube. If YouTube were to match or exceed it they’d be losing money absurdly fast.

      • @CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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        83 months 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.

      • @Cenotaph@mander.xyz
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        143 months 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

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    • IOS; Sideloading EeveeSpotify.
    • Windows; Specitify.
    • Android; ReVanced.

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

      • InfiniteGlitch
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        23 months 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.

    • Novaling
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      23 months 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.

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    53 months 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