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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 70 points 3 months ago

I’m more bothered by there being ads inserted in podcasts when I’m a paying customer tbh

[-] Zanshi@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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 28 points 3 months ago

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.

Thanks, Xzibit.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Can confirm. I got annoyed with it and moved away from Spotify for podcasts a year or two ago. #NoRegrets

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

https://symfonium.app/ for playback of both

Does this have a 10/15sec skip button?

[-] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's very customizable too. The audiobookshelf support is in an early experimental stage though, but it does work

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks, Gonna check this one out then, having multiple play queues sounds awesome. Currently I'm having to use VLC and blackplayer so I can go back and forth between podcasts and music without losing my place.

[-] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 2 points 3 months ago

It's definitely worth at least checking out the free trial, it's the best music player I've ever used on any platform. The dev is also very active and there are new features dropping constantly

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 3 months ago

I don't think so. I use audiobookshelf's companion app on my phone, which does. audiobookshelf manages all the subscriptions and pulling and whatnot, it seems to do a decent job keeping me sane on the commute.

[-] courval@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

And you're sponsoring fascists..

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

That's why i quit spotify.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Are they inserted ads or ad reads by the podcast themselves?

[-] quack@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

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

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