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!

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    2 days ago

    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

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      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.

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      How many AI songs you have tho? Spotify has other ways to make money for itself and its cronies, namely by shoving fake generated music that big lables own down your playlist so the big label cartel gets more profit.

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Probably not that many since I carefully curate my list and generally only listen to local artists or international that I’m familiar with.

    • Hjalmar@feddit.nuEnglish
      101·
      2 days ago

      I’m also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering

      • Cenotaph@mander.xyzEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Those arent spotify ads, they’re the ads from the podcast. To my knowledge unless its a “spotify exclusive” all they are doing is fetching the RSS feed for you, not paying the creator anything regardless of your subscription status

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        And now they’re showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I feel the same about youtube. I pay for premium, but sometimes creators bake in their own ads. I wish youtube would pay creators enough so they wouldn’t have to do it.