I just download my songs using freetube, load then onto my phone, and use a FOSS music player to make my playlists. That way, even when I drive out into areas with spotty connections I get my tunes coming through
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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I quit using Spotify entirely after https://swedenherald.com/article/this-is-how-much-spotify-donated-to-trumps-inauguration
They alao have done very little about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.
Am I the only one who download music now?(11.3 GB - 320K - Around 1600 Songs)
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that's awesome π )
I went back to just downloading it. Got a 512gb SD card in my phone with 180GB of music on it and about 40GB of podcasts. Spotify is just for when I want to find new stuff to listen to.
10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.
Adverts are poison for the mind.
Spotify kind of sucks. I've been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.
It's amazing it became so popular. I got sick of the lack of true shuffle and radio and went back to Pandora. It's so much better than Spotify I can't imagine going back.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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why don't you have an adblocker? I haven't seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Wait that's a thing in Mobile devices?
If you're on iPhone, SOL or use Spotify web with brave browser (in-built ad blocker).
If you're on Android plenty of APKs that'll disable ads and make you 'premium'
There's no reason to trust random APKs for stuff like this anymore when Revanced exists to let you build the APK yourself right on your phone with only the patches you want. Highly recommend!
I prefer my phone with malware, so I know I'm not alone
I haven't considered this point before. Currently clicking on every sketchy ad I see.
I second the other user recommending revanced and also would like to throw in spotx-bash fix for the desktop spotify app ad removal.
https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX-Bash
Windows version
Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don't use apple products but it works on everything else
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You could YT music-revanced. Just sayin'
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.
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
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.
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So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
Also, stop fucking using it
Stop using services that don't care about their users for
fuck
's sake
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FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription*. Or pirate.
^*^not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
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- IOS; Sideloading EeveeSpotify.
- Windows; Specitify.
- Android; ReVanced.
Thereβs no reason to waste your time on ads.
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It infuriates me too, it's an outrageous lie. Bizarrely sometimes it plays for ages with no ads IDKY
The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Youtube music gives you a better experience.
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That's basically my Pandora experience. They'll have ads where if you click to watch a video, you'll get X amount of time, usually an hour, ad free. There's about a 50% chance the ad will cause the app to crash, but only AFTER the ad finishes playing. And once I start the app up again, it doesn't remember the offer or that I watched the ad. Same thing if I close the app, accidentally or otherwise. If I start it back up, that ad free hour is gone.
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don't think about not having it.
Use spot tube
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