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!

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      *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

    • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

        • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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          2 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.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 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

    • Hjalmar@feddit.nuEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
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        2 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.

      • Cenotaph@mander.xyzEnglish
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        2 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

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 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.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      2 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.

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.eeEnglish
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        2 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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 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.

      • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 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.

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

          • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 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.