Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding

Real x3

Honestly im considering just switching back to piracy

I dunno why you left! I've never understood what was good or better than pirating about these streaming services. Everyone says convenience, but I don't think that's the real reason, because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music.
- What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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.
Plenty of apps play Spotify and YouTube music without ads, I've been using outertune.
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.
- I miss What.CD so much for this reason. They had the "Artist Web" on every artist and album page that linked you to similar music, and even showing which links were higher percentage matches.
  
  Discovering new music on there was so easy and fun. I even ran across several people that released their music exclusively on What.CD through those webs.
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
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.
Slskd is nice
- +1

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

I'm also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Probably not that many since I carefully curate my list and generally only listen to local artists or international that I’m familiar with.

The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Youtube music gives you a better experience.

I hate that YouTube Music keeps trying to make me waste my bandwidth on videos that have worse audio quality than when it just plays the song. 0/10 smoothbrain design, probably just to sell more video ads.
- Can't you force it to never play a video? My yt music never plays video by itself.

So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?

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

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

Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
- 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.
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.

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.

spicetify

I will say nothing else

Ohh, also revanced spotify

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

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'
- Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
  
  i don't use apple products but it works on everything else
- with dns

Adverts are poison for the mind.

This is one service where the free version really isn’t worth it.

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 👍 )
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.

For downloading there's lucida.to

The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.

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

It infuriates me too, it's an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY

Laughs in Navidrome

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

That's something I couldn't listen to, so it's not Mildly infuriating, it's the upper tier..:-)

Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don't think about not having it.

Soulseek my beloved.

Ripping straight from tidal and self hosting with navidrome 😁

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.

Only 5 minutes of uninterrupted adverts? They said 30 minutes. Liars.

It's worse than that! It's 2 minutes of music followed by 5 minutes of adverts
- So they're shorting you 25 minutes on the promised 30 minutes of uninterrupted adverts. Wankers!

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

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.