• Taokan@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 小时前

    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.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 小时前

    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.

    • gibson
      14·
      11 小时前

      At least real radio doesn’t collect your information

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 小时前

      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.

        • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
          1·
          24 分钟前

          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.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 小时前

          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.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 小时前

        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.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        11 小时前

        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.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    12 小时前

    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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 小时前

      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?

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 小时前

        Sending files from one device to another has been made intentionally difficult by phone makers.

    • BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 小时前

      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.

    • Zanshi@lemmy.world
      15·
      18 小时前

      Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them

      • vodka@feddit.org
        24·
        16 小时前

        This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.

        My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        2·
        14 小时前

        Yeah even on free I never got a Spotify add on a podcast. Those were the podcasts themselves putting ads in.

      • ikt@aussie.zone
        1·
        16 小时前

        Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

        Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app

        Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…

        • jeffep@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 小时前

          Did they stop just grabbing podcasts from the free web and playing them in Spotify? I remember from a few years ago that some podcasts were complaining and willing to sue Spotify for stealing their content.

          • ikt@aussie.zone
            1·
            16 小时前

            I don’t care for podcasts at all, it’s just because they’re adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don’t have ads except the abc’s if you’re listening and it’s what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?

      • quack@lemmy.zip
        2·
        14 小时前

        Inserted ads, although in my experience they’re placed by the podcast network rather than Spotify.

      • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
        10·
        14 小时前

        Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.

        Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers. Its a dead model and the only thing we’re guilty of is felony contempt of business model.

        Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.

        • ikt@aussie.zone
          11·
          14 小时前

          Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.

          Let me know how suing people for downloading music on Limewire works out for you

          Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers

          There’s more music released every minute that can be listened to in a lifetime, this is what happens when supply outstrips demand

          Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.

          That’s cool and all but not every artist does gigs and most people don’t go to them, so there needs to be something for the other 99% of people, which conveniently, is called Spotify or Qobuz

            • ikt@aussie.zone
              13·
              13 小时前

              I don’t know if it’s stealing but I feel better knowing when I listen to music artists get paid

              As someone else pointed out:

              Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.

              That’s a lot of artists making music we enjoy who are able to eat at night

              • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
                2·
                6 小时前

                And before Spotify, artists were able to make more money with physical media, that the customers owned for life. Spotify essentially made the situation worse for both the artist and the consumer.

                • ikt@aussie.zone
                  1·
                  51 分钟前

                  Damn your memory really goes like this

                  1. People going down to the record store to buy CD’s

                  2. <this page intentionally left blank>

                  3. Spotify :D

                  You really missed out a whole decade of music piracy and CD sales falling through the floor

              • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
                6·
                13 小时前

                Theres also a lot of aritists having their media streamed by these companies who get absolutely zero because they’re being robbed by Spotify and the industry at large

                Just because Taylor Swift gets her cut doesn’t mean its just and fair.

                Infact, I’d say thats just concentrating wealth in the hands of power again… So… uhh… I’mma keep “stealing” it and buying band merch instead.

      • Darnton@piefed.zipEnglish
        22·
        19 小时前

        I download and then I buy the actual physical media releases from the bands I like. Lots of bands even release their own music for download.

        • ikt@aussie.zone
          18·
          16 小时前

          what about the bands you don’t like? I assume they subscribe to your free with no ads and no money plan?

            • ikt@aussie.zone
              18·
              15 小时前

              Because you’re still listening to their music ? Do you buy the merch of thousands of producers who make ambient music? Do I need to have the ambient track hit me in a way that all the others don’t before they are worthy of being paid?

              • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
                2·
                6 小时前

                There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify. Good job supporting an industry that killed physical media, pushes AI “music” to the masses and enables Nazi podcasters. Nice fucking Job.

                Also, Go to Bandcamp. You can listen to all the music there. Then you can decide to buy the music and in return you get to download the FLAC files. Most artists even let you decide how much you want to pay. You come off as someone who’s never taken a step out into the world and just gobbles everything up that is spoonfed to you.

                • ikt@aussie.zone
                  1·
                  2 小时前

                  There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify.

                  Incorrect, the answer we were after is Napster

              • Cypher@aussie.zone
                11·
                14 小时前

                Because you’re still listening to their music ?

                Why would anyone download and listen to music they don’t like…?

                • ikt@aussie.zone
                  1·
                  33 分钟前

                  I duno, how do you guys find new music to listen to?

                  Sometimes I’ll just put a playlist on with 1000 tracks in it, maybe a couple I like, most are ok, some of them i skip, in my world they all get paid, in your world only a tiny tiny fraction of them do

        • ikt@aussie.zone
          15·
          13 小时前

          Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.

          More artists get more money from Spotify than from anywhere else

          Last post from me, I’m not here to educate every left wing boomer

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    62·
    22 小时前

    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.