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!

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months 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.

    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months 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.

    • 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