Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan

not only do you pay them to shove more adverts at you, they're giving a substantial chunk to chuds like rogan all the while stiffing the artists their service is built on.
nice fucking job.

I just got a "swipe right or left" ad for duo
thanks, spotify, for occasionally reminding me I'm single

Don't worry, if you switch to Duo the messages don't stop. They just change to "Upgrade now to a Family Plan!"
- I'm afraid to ask- what if you get the family plan?
  
  They convince you to start a second family with your mistress in Atlantic City
  
  They might summom up a family super version and limit the family plan to 3 people, so you need super if you have 2 kids lol

That isn't an advert, it is a "promotion", gotcha!

Just a reminder that Tidal is amazing, has higher quality audio, a real shuffle, daily playlists, doesn't shove podcasts in your face, pays artists more, and provides ways to import your playlists over 🩷 I also listen to some pretty obscure music and haven't had issues not finding songs.
- Looked at that and think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to beat.
  Edit: Searching a bit more, it looks like Tidal Connect is actually a thing. I'll take a good look at switching when my Spotify plan runs out. I'll be happy to switch to a service that doesn't screw their artists.
  
  That repo is an amazing example of something so well documented as to how it works they completely neglected to have even a paragraph explaining what it really does and why I would want to use it.
  As far as I can tell it’s a Spotify connect client which runs as a daemon so you probably need to control it remotely? Kinda like how AirPlay works on apple devices? Is that right?
- Deleted spotify, now use Soundcloud and Tidal. Reminder soundcloud has by far the most music on it.
  
  You can stream all the music you own from Bandcamp directly too.
- I have always liked apple music, hated the first ui change, its finally good again now, near perfect
  
  I believe Apple Music is solid, and if I'm not mistaken, pays artists the most. I was super considering it when I was looking for alternatives!
  
  Every complaint ppl had about queing was valid but is gone now, it improved a lot at some point last 2 years, I always liked finding related artists on there and if you like edm so many livesets remastered for apple music
- Last I'd used Tidal it was still glitchy, missing artists I fancy, with incorrect dates and covers for a number of other artists I like. I'm still on Spotify for now, but with ad-free clients on both my phone and laptop. Is Tidal any better than it was 4 years ago?
  
  It's been super solid for me! They are constantly improving categorization, and they are always on top of reported issues. I absolutely love that they provide patch notes with every update!
  
  Tidal has like everyone now. Even a few that weren't on spotify in my experience. Its like 2$ to extend the free trial to 2 months so you can really get a feel for it.
- aww it's not available in my region
- I'm just waiting for either Tidal or Qobuz to offer good non-English (Japanese) support sike... I tested both. Apps were solid themselves but I'd appreciate it if I don't have to try English, Japanese, romaji (Japanese phonetics) every time I search for something
- Tidal doesn't respect disabling explicit content, and it also dropped crossfading.
  As buggy as it is sometimes, Deezer is where I'm at.
- I'm checking out Tidal right now. Is there a way to import the playlists that doesn't cost money?
  When you say "a real shuffle" what do you mean?
  So far the audio quality is noticeably better and I have both set to maximum quality. Only complaint so far is that they seem to combine artists of same or similar names. For example, it was tough to find Wolves without it confusing different artists of the same name. I found a metal core band from Milwaukee of the same name which I like, but I was looking for a band from the early 2000's from Massachusetts. Once I found them, Tidal lists other artists' albums under the more albums section.
  
  When I moved over a few years ago, there were a few different services that could migrate playlists. I did remember some having a cap that you had to pay to increase, but I believe I eventually found one that let me move them all for free.
  One of the reasons I quit Spotify was that their shuffle seemed oddly weighted. It would try to detect songs that it thought I wanted to listen to and always prioritize those in the shuffle. Turning off its smart shuffle didn't seem to help either 🤷‍♀️ I do occasionally find artists with the same name grouped together, but this is something I've seen them addressing in their patch notes. They are really on top of reported issues.

Use Spotube, a Spotify client that's available via F-Droid or it's official site
That's all. Enjoy free Spotify premium-like user experience. You can also log in with your already existing Spotify acc for convenience
- Nice. Any chance my existing spotify accound could get banned or something? I want some QOL changes but am afraid of losing ~400 playlists..
- Thanks mate !!! Thats a great app!! To be true lately a lot users share their apps, you guys give amazing solutions!
  I dropped YouTube app and I use newpipe, now I can use spotube as a replacement to Spotify.
  
  I had the same Wow! experience when I first heard about this app. One can't literally tell which apps UI is the official one lol
  Glad to hear others like it too!

"So everyone in the couple can enjoy..."
But there's only two people, you said it's a couple???
Does this read weird to anyone else?
- They're trying (and failing) to be cute. Like saying "all two of us". "everyone in the couple", because it's called Duo. Personally, if I had Spotify, this ad would be the last straw to make me cancel.

I guess they don't count their own ads

"Hello, spotify? I'd like to cancel.......well because you don't know what words mean."

https://fmhy.pages.dev/audiopiracyguide
If you are able to give support to artists you listen to, try to find ways to give money to them directly without any corporation leeching most of the money.

You know- mStream, Plex, Jellyfin, Lyrion, Yunohost and Navidrome are all free ;)
Join us! /c/selfhosted
- I don't know what all of these are but surely it can't be at search some song and tap and listen?
  
  Of course not. You need other software to rip your music from physical media, or potentially multiple other software to search and download them. You'll need additional software to host everything over the internet. You'll probably want a computer to act as a server. You'll very likely need a private VPN to be able to access it over the public internet. You'll need some networking knowledge to set everything up. Hope you're familiar with docker. And afterwards you'll have to manage everything yourself once they are up.
  Even if you don't search for new music very often it's a lot of work. If you care about being able to discover new music then it's pretty bad. There's a reason music streaming exploded in popularity so quickly. This shit is not easy or convenient to self-host. At all. If you're already selfhosting a bunch of stuff, then it might be worth it to add this stack on top of your existing stuff. But absolutely not worth building anything from scratch just for this.
- It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Self host various other things so adding a new app wouldn't be an issue. Thanks for the list.

I am so glad I swapped to downloading my music rather than streaming. Fuck Spotify and every other streaming service. Owning my music is more important to me than any level of "convenience" those services pretend to offer
- Plus you can make it just as convenient by self-hosting your own streaming service from home!
  
  Oh do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I've just been using Syncthing which works fine, but I'm curious if you have better ways of doing it
- I just wish i could buy and use cd's still, the artists used to see more money and i got to use the music in whatever device i decided.
  
  I've been building up my collection by browsing my local Bullmoose (idk how widespread that store is) and other places that sell CDs. I've got a disk reader a friend gave me to rip them.

Where we live they phased out Duo and force&switched us to Family even though we're only two. That was a year ago or so

Fucking excuse me? Wtf is happening now?

Apple Music doesn’t pull this shit

paying for music has to be made cringy again

Spotube and yt-dlp for me while directly supporting the artist through merch, physical media, or bandcamp.

They run ads in the podcasts that are exclusive to Spotify. There is no such thing as ad free Spotify.

xManager says what?
- Doesn't look like it plays well with Spotify Connect?
  
  What exactly is Spotify connect?

Could someone please explain this post?

I used to pay for Spotify. One day, got an email saying "uwu, we're raising our prices again. Sowwyy 🥺👉👈". The same day I switched to YT after exporting my playlists. I cracked the YouTube Music app with Revanced. Corps will never get anything out of me again.
- Would have left Spotify a couple years ago if I could find an app with something like Spotify Connect.
  
  Is that the thing that randomly switched from my desktop to my phone in the middle of a song a dozen or so times yesterday for no apparent reason and with no interaction from me on either device? Yeah, uhh, I would very much like to find an app that doesn't do that.

Every other day.

I’ve used Spotify an exact total of one time. It was shit then, I imagine it’s still shit now
- I stop paying for a sub when they went exclusive with rogan. Then deleted my account when they gave money and praise to trump. I'm trying to get out of as many things as I can that support the fascist us government

I just use Spotifydown and collate my own downloaded lists on USBs.
- I download straight from Tidal. Tben use a navidrome server to stream my music anywhere I go with my own library.

I'd switch if there was something like RVRB for Tidal or, better still, your own local music collection. Or if RVRB supported other platforms.
Seriously, that site has helped me find so much stuff I like, it's hard to let that go.

Switch to xmanager and spotx for free
- Any chance you would have some links? Manager seems to be a bit vague as there are several results for that name. I think I found Spotx on github though.
  
  My bad for the long response. Here's the link to the xmanager github
  https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager

Odd spelling of "whenever"