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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • 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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          1 month 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.

  • 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.

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There are many pros and cons. They are different things. While the main reason is that commercial solutions are selected to be as accessible as possible while piracy solutions require the user to make a lot more decisions (many of which can be made wrong), there area also valid reasons that spring directly from being different mediums. It is not hard to discover these reasons by simply trying it for a week.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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.

      • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I like Spotify for music discovery (I don’t have the time to discover music on my own). $42 CAD per year for premium is worth it for me.

        I’m already running an ARR stack, so there would only be about 10 minutes of effort if I ever change my mind and add Lidarr.

          • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I get it, it was part of the fun for me.

            But now I’ve got about 60 minutes per day to myself where I am not working or keeping a toddler from killing themselves. I’m using that time to play video games; not hoping I can stumble upon my delicious niche of death/power/trash metal that I’ll listen to for 10-15 hours a week

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • 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…:-)

  • 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

    • Oniononon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 month 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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        1 month 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.

    • 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

      • 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.

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
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        1 month 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

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month 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.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I tried YouTube today for the first time in years. Its unwatchable. The frog must have been slowly boiling for years to have so many people accept what Youtube is now. Just wow.

    I managed to watch about 10 minutes but had about 5 ads during that time, taking up several minutes of my time. It broke my focus and I forgot what the video was about.

    Back to Newpipe.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I was using the official YouTube app since I wanted to use chromecast to get a video up on my tv.

        I havent used revanced, seems interesting also. But Newpipe just does what I need so im happy.

        Already have network wide adblocking but doesnt stop YouTube ads in their official app.

          • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Its an app? No i still have a dumb tv. 50 inch plasma that has lasted 10 years now i think. And I like that its not smart, so it doesnt talk to random stuff on the internet.

            I guess I will replace it soon but when I do, that tv gets no internet access. :)

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month 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

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
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        1 month 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.