Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding
Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding
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!
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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
Exactly. Happy to say I've never experienced this issue in my entire life. Like how I've never experienced buffering issues where the quality drops, or doesn't playback at all; never had to pay for a second service because the first one I chose has album A but not album B; never had a power or internet outage stop the music.
It's amazing that you can do so much more for so much less cost, yet people just keep giving these rich sheisters all their money they don't have. I think based on my last comment, it's laziness and convenience is just a spin to make it sound more acceptable.
For me, it’s the fear of getting caught.
I have got caught in my more vulnerable years. That was not a nice experience.
Someone else mentioned a similar comment. Pirating isn't the only option in escaping the streaming services, though. BandCamp, for instance, you can download your music. They even have a special day every year where 100% of every sale that day goes directly to the artist. They just did that yesterday, actually.
Not just once per year. Next one is in August.
That’s a great resource for someone who owns a credit card or is down with PayPal.
It's just one option. You can always go to the artists' shows and pay cash at the merch table.
Use a VPN.
That, yes, and then the increase of prices just to kick you in the balls too.
But what pisses ME off, is how they doctor their downloads and replays. It grabs minimal, replays as much as possible, before getting something new. You’re literally paying to be in your own echo chamber.
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
This is why I miss scrobbling. I think scrobbling is still a thing, but far less so now with the social media psychology being applied to music streaming.
Me and my music nerd friends all loved seeing each others' habits, so we linked our local Clementine players with Last.FM, and could see all the stats for each other that way.
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.
They had the "Artist Web" on every artist and album page that linked you to similar music
Redacted has this.
Yea, I've wanted to get on that for a while, but I don't meet the requirements
Spotdl - download your entire Spotify playlist
Slskd is nice
+1
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.