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.
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Or buy ad space to play a short song.
That's supposed to be a comma - "Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening"
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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'.
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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.
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I’m more bothered by there being ads inserted in podcasts when I’m a paying customer tbh
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ For your podcasts
https://www.navidrome.org/ for your music
https://symfonium.app/ for playback of both
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC for stealing raw FLACs from fucking Tidal using Spotify metadata because I guess their shit is about as secure as a picnic basket held closed with an anti-bear ziptie.
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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?
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obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
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is self-hosted streaming a thing?
Jellyfin is how I host it. You can connect with Navidrome, the Jellyfin app, or just with a browser.
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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
Hey we said you get 30 minutes we never said consecutive… I bet you have like a bank of stored minutes and they continue expiring while you’re not listening. So legally you get the full 30 minutes…. Just not when you expected to.
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
Ads take up those "30 minutes of ad-free listening"
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