obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Also the only one with a Linux client
It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it’s publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC Why use Tidal when you can just take the FLACs from Tidal for free?
Because the product is good and artists earn money that way. Idk.
I don’t need the music industry using my money for forward anti-consumer practices, thanks. Its unethical to buy music from the industry. Go see a gig, buy a shirt.
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
There’s an unofficial one for Pandora as well. I’m not claiming Pandora is a great service, it just comes ad free with my phone plan.
While it’s got its faults, I’m a Pandora guy and find it vastly superior to Spotify, particularly when trying to find new music
i use web and android apps for yt music and bandcamp
For Qobuz there is an unofficial native client, with DAC passthrough: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz
Works very well.
i use the th-ch gitHub for youtube music on linux (also has ad blockers, themes, and plugins)
edit: i think its actually called pear desktop now?
You get 30 minutes of ad-free listening, but not all in a row. Sounds like you got 8 minutes worth already; after this ad, you can get another 8 minutes.
If this is the actual rationale, I will collect someone’s ankles
MY URETHRA IS SO WIDE I COULD BIRTH THE CHILD MYSELF!
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”
No, money down!
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Real radio be like: 30 minutes of music free ads. I literally stopped listening to FM radio because I would drive to another town 45 minutes away and not hear a single fucking song.
At least real radio doesn’t collect your information
More of a technical limitation than an intentional choice, but sure.
I prefer to call it a ‘mechanical failsafe’.
Until you dial in to one of those give-away events, sure.
but that’s a very consensual action, they literally have to ask you for those information not just start harvesting in the background
I’m a school bus driver and in the mornings the kids beg me to play music on the radio. So I turn it on, set it to “SCAN” and then I don’t hear one fucking actual song the entire rest of the ride. Even the local classical station is somehow just people babbling.
Oof. Your bus doesn’t happen to have a way of using one of those Bluetooth FM blaster things does it? Just play something off your phone through that tuned to the right station on the radio. The one I drove didn’t havr nothing for that, but mine was old as shit. Tho I guess not old enough to have a cigarette lighter port for the kids that smoked.
Our buses have an aux input jack. I just don’t ever feel like messing around with an aux cable and USB-C adapter just for 15 minutes of music. Although i would really enjoy making my elementary school kids listen to Shpongle.
Play them incomprehensible jazz prog and metal. The stuff only the music prodigy will even be able to identify as music.
Angine de Poitrine it is!
Music streaming makes this worse. Radio has become a race to the bottom. If you’re listening to radio you probably prefer the bullshit gossip.
What do you do when you’re not driving a school bus?
Not a bus driver but I’ve seen enough of them to answer this question.
When they aren’t driving the bus, they are either waiting for kids to get on or off the bus or they are briefly investigating who threw the stray projectile that hit them before they pulled over but usually settle for the complete silence as each kid pretends to not remember what throwing even is, let alone admit who threw anything. That silence never lasts more than a minute after they start driving again, though sometimes it will only be whispers for a while if the bus driver screamed in rage or broke down in tears.
When I was 19 I was in a band with this really strange kid. He was super charismatic though, and just seemed to make friends with anybody he met. One of those people happened to be this 40 year old bus driver. We went over his place one time to smoke a joint, and he showed us his grow room. This was in like 2005 or so, so all very illegal. He got in my face about not telling anybody and how I better not be a narc. Anyway… Then we ate some pot brownies and watched a movie. The brownie I ate wasn’t doing anything so I ate another and learned a very important life lesson about edibles. If you’re not feeling the first one, don’t eat the second one. I was high as fuck. Banished to the shadow realm, some might say. Took a few hours to regain my composure and walked home. It was a weird fuckin night.
So yeah. Probably anecdotal but “what do school bus drivers do when not driving a school bus?” - grow weed, and eat pot brownies with teenage punk rockers and watch movies.
Ride my bicycle. I’m a retired software engineer.
May I introduce you to our lord and savior Groove Salad on SomaFM?
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
You can sue them. If is not specified that must be in a row you CAN sue, or at least you can report them with the competent organization. It’s in normal language, not legal language. People using spotify are not lawyers, are normal people. If the thing says “30 minutes free” it do must mean that, no “ooohhh you mean, 30 minutes, like, in row??” bullshit.
Fuck Spotify. Also, I can’t hear the music that I want in their free plan, because I choose some song and the platform plays whatever they want. Again, fuck them.
You can sue them.
Excited to collect $.26 in damages after six years in court.
They probably have a forced arbitration clause. Using an arbitrator of their choice, of course.
There’s 30 minutes ad free spread over the duration of your subscription. I thought everybody had figured it out.
So, over the course of a year I get 30 minutes that aren’t ads?
Yup. And sometime last year they made getting a cracked version of Spotify an incredible pain in the ass and the guy updating the crack stopped supporting it and instead is choosing to focus on YouTube ReVanced.
My library on Spotify is over 6k songs. Been trying to slowly get them downloaded onto my phone.
In retrospect, it could be hilariously worth it to buy an ad spot and just play that “enjoy 30 minutes of ad free listening” blurb.
Or buy ad space to play a short song.
Y’all are getting full tracks?
Usually you just redirect some host names to localhost and all your ad problems magically disappear.
Google is spending half their R&D budget trying to prevent this on YouTube.
Google folks aren’t stupid to serve ads from different host in their yt.
And yet, I’ve still not seen an advert on youtube since… 2020? maybe? Sometimes it spins a bit while ublock and youtubes advertising code fights it out, but its almost never stopped working.
They’re dumb as fuck, or they know what they’re doing is dumb as fuck. But the emporer must have their new clothes and something must be done at the great expenditure of manpower specifically to enshittify the internet further.
If the google folks weren’t stupid, they’d be doing something else. Atleast they’re not the same goobas running Azure.
I wouldn’t want to be an apparatchik in that org.
Yea they may be a bit clever but they’re no match for the guy with no budget in his underwear using his free time to go against them
Yeah its like… one side has to pay to fight the war, the other does it for the sheer joy of upsetting the former group
Its a losing battle, and only one that “works” if the consumer is a dumbass.
Man I haven’t gotten that “30 minutes of uninterrupted listening” shit in a few months. I swear, they’ve been slowly increasing the amount of ads per song, from like 1 ad per 4 songs to I shit you not, 2 ads per song. I usually have to restart the web page since it gets stuck on desktop, or close the app on mobile. They’re probably overcompensating since they’re salty they aren’t getting any revenue from me.
I’ll never understand why people don’t just make playlists of music and save it down locally.
I had no less than sixteen hours of music in CDs stuffed in my glove box back in college. Would cycle through that maybe once or twice a month. Maybe I’d throw on a little NPR if I was curious about the news. But why on God’s Green Earth would you subject yourself to the garbage radio networks available in the modern era?
Sending files from one device to another has been made intentionally difficult by phone makers.
It isn’t really that difficult. I have a cheap, newish Motorola phone (3 years old) and all I have to do is make sure when plugging into the PC I switch the USB mode when it pops up.
Then it’s literally no different from using the normal file browser. Get you a good media app and find the file storage path. (Hell, Musicolet, a fantastic, free, offline music manager, literally makes you create/select the file path yourself on first launch) then just drag and drop into it like any other folder.
Or get a program like MusicBee and just have it set to sync that directory.
I for example like the fresh experience so i really enjoy spotify discover weekly to listen through and find something i can put into my playlist. So in a way i dont have fixed playlist just my liked list
But i also pay for spotify beacuse i listen to so much music with constant new additions to my playlist i legitematly think its one subscription thats worth the money and pretty much the only one i even use with the exception of a month of Netflix when new bogdan boner egzorcysta drops on Netflix roughly once a year ( not really possible to buy separately, but that man is a genius of polish cinematography so i will suffer through it so that he may get my support and continue his work ).
I hate the pay for ad-free subscription model. They use people’s personal data to optimize the experience, making their ads as annoying and disorienting as possible.
When Reddit first unveiled their subscription, they began spamming my phone with obnoxious herpes advertisements. The ad just said “Herpes?” in big purple letters. Since this particular subject invoked a sense of fear and anxiety, it made me more likely to pay for their removal.
Damn, they let you get 2 whole songs in? Usually I get 3 ads right after “30 minutes of ad free listening” one
Did they say thirty minutes in a row?
Back when I used spotify, it was exclusively via desktop browser with ublock, never had an ad load
It’s not telling you that you will receive 30 minutes of ad-free listening. It’s suggesting that you do that by upgrading to a more expensive tier. Or by other means 🏴☠️
Cracked apks exist, people.
