30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Real radio be like: 30 minutes of music free ads. I literally stopped listening to FM radio because I would drive to another town 45 minutes away and not hear a single fucking song.
The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.
Back when I used spotify, it was exclusively via desktop browser with ublock, never had an ad load
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”
No, money down!
Comma’s, it’s the difference between helping your friend, Jack, off a horse. Or helping him jack off a…….you get it :)
I’m more bothered by there being ads inserted in podcasts when I’m a paying customer tbh
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ For your podcasts
https://www.navidrome.org/ for your music
https://symfonium.app/ for playback of both
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC for stealing raw FLACs from fucking Tidal using Spotify metadata because I guess their shit is about as secure as a picnic basket held closed with an anti-bear ziptie.
Are they inserted ads or ad reads by the podcast themselves?
Inserted ads, although in my experience they’re placed by the podcast network rather than Spotify.
Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them
Yeah even on free I never got a Spotify add on a podcast. Those were the podcasts themselves putting ads in.
This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.
My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.
Thanks, Xzibit.
Can confirm. I got annoyed with it and moved away from Spotify for podcasts a year or two ago. #NoRegrets
Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this
Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app
Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…
Why not just use antennapod?
I don’t care for podcasts at all, it’s just because they’re adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don’t have ads except the abc’s if you’re listening and it’s what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?
Oh I gotcha that makes sense.
That’s why i quit spotify.
And you’re sponsoring fascists…
I don’t understand how
I’ll just keep downloading music thanks.
paying artists nothing is worse than paying them a little
Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.
Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers. Its a dead model and the only thing we’re guilty of is felony contempt of business model.
Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.
Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.
Let me know how suing people for downloading music on Limewire works out for you
Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers
There’s more music released every minute that can be listened to in a lifetime, this is what happens when supply outstrips demand
Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.
That’s cool and all but not every artist does gigs and most people don’t go to them, so there needs to be something for the other 99% of people, which conveniently, is called Spotify or Qobuz
Is it even stealing when the front door is open and brings FLACs.
“Downloading music” doesn’t say anything about whether or not you pay for it.
I download and then I buy the actual physical media releases from the bands I like. Lots of bands even release their own music for download.
what about the bands you don’t like? I assume they subscribe to your free with no ads and no money plan?
wait why should my money go to bands i dont like
Because you’re still listening to their music ? Do you buy the merch of thousands of producers who make ambient music? Do I need to have the ambient track hit me in a way that all the others don’t before they are worthy of being paid?
Because you’re still listening to their music ?
Why would anyone download and listen to music they don’t like…?
You do know that artists sell their music online, right?
obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Also the only one with a Linux client
It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it’s publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
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.
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC Why use Tidal when you can just take the FLACs from Tidal for free?
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.
While it’s got its faults, I’m a Pandora guy and find it vastly superior to Spotify, particularly when trying to find new music
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
Usually you just redirect some host names to localhost and all your ad problems magically disappear.
Google is spending half their R&D budget trying to prevent this on YouTube.
Google folks aren’t stupid to serve ads from different host in their yt.
And yet, I’ve still not seen an advert on youtube since… 2020? maybe? Sometimes it spins a bit while ublock and youtubes advertising code fights it out, but its almost never stopped working.
They’re dumb as fuck, or they know what they’re doing is dumb as fuck. But the emporer must have their new clothes and something must be done at the great expenditure of manpower specifically to enshittify the internet further.
If the google folks weren’t stupid, they’d be doing something else. Atleast they’re not the same goobas running Azure.
I wouldn’t want to be an apparatchik in that org.
You get 30 minutes of ad-free listening, but not all in a row. Sounds like you got 8 minutes worth already; after this ad, you can get another 8 minutes.
If this is the actual rationale, I will collect someone’s ankles
Cracked apks exist, people.
remember when it was lame to pay for music?
It was LAME to ENCODE music.
Y’all are getting full tracks?
Damn, they let you get 2 whole songs in? Usually I get 3 ads right after “30 minutes of ad free listening” one
