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!
I quit using Spotify entirely after https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration
They alao have done very little about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.
So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
Also, stop fucking using it
Stop using services that don’t care about their users for
fuck
's sake
I used to get so annoyed at the auto correct to ducking but after a niece and nephew were introduced as variables I’ve found ducking the most effective sentence enhancer that doesn’t provoke a parent teacher conference for my brother lol
Adverts are poison for the mind.
Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that’s awesome 👍 )
10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.
I went back to just downloading it. Got a 512gb SD card in my phone with 180GB of music on it and about 40GB of podcasts. Spotify is just for when I want to find new stuff to listen to.
Spotify kind of sucks. I’ve been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.
It’s amazing it became so popular. I got sick of the lack of true shuffle and radio and went back to Pandora. It’s so much better than Spotify I can’t imagine going back.
FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription*. Or pirate.
*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
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*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
Actually not.
I like listening to the WAN show podcast from LTT. Amd as most here prpbably know they are very keen on monetizing a lot on their content.
As it turns out Spotify has different settings between podcasts and music. And they offer the creators to enable ads (even for premium subs) inbetween podcast episodes.
So if you queue the LTT-podcast after a regular song, you can get advertisements before and after an episode.
You can scrub through or skip the ad but it requires manual interaction to do so. And hot keys like on (BT-)headsets don’t work.I confirmed their existence with the Spotify support
Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it
Podcast ads are easy to skip. Still, i pay subscription to my favourite podcast network to support them, and it’s more convenient not having to skip.
why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Wait that’s a thing in Mobile devices?
If you’re on iPhone, SOL or use Spotify web with brave browser (in-built ad blocker).
If you’re on Android plenty of APKs that’ll disable ads and make you ‘premium’
There’s no reason to trust random APKs for stuff like this anymore when Revanced exists to let you build the APK yourself right on your phone with only the patches you want. Highly recommend!
I prefer my phone with malware, so I know I’m not alone
I haven’t considered this point before. Currently clicking on every sketchy ad I see.
I second the other user recommending revanced and also would like to throw in spotx-bash fix for the desktop spotify app ad removal.
https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX-Bash
Windows version
Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else
with dns
I just download my songs using freetube, load then onto my phone, and use a FOSS music player to make my playlists. That way, even when I drive out into areas with spotty connections I get my tunes coming through
It infuriates me too, it’s an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY
Use spot tube
You could YT music-revanced. Just sayin’
I used Spotify once years ago. wanted to listen to the Beatles or Bowie or something.
first song was good. then they started playing Sinatra, then Katy Perry, then someone else.
I removed it just because if I told you to play “X” you play “X”.
so glad I still have my 500gb collection of mp3s.
It’s a trap. Its been that way as long as I can remember. If any music service offers a longer ad for uninterrupted music, don’t do it.
Idk how it can even be considered a trap or legal its straight up false advertising, textbook definition
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don’t think about not having it.
That’s basically my Pandora experience. They’ll have ads where if you click to watch a video, you’ll get X amount of time, usually an hour, ad free. There’s about a 50% chance the ad will cause the app to crash, but only AFTER the ad finishes playing. And once I start the app up again, it doesn’t remember the offer or that I watched the ad. Same thing if I close the app, accidentally or otherwise. If I start it back up, that ad free hour is gone.
