This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I posted this when Youtube was doing it by 'mistake' too...
If you are paying to not receive ads, and you receive an ad by mistake, they should pay you whatever they earned on the ad. Now... I doubt they'll actually pay you dollars, but lets say at minimum 1 day of free extended service per ad, but if they earn more than 1 days worth via the ad, then it should be whatever that is.
From HN comments:
This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code:
I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.
Tidal is better
Navidrome is even better
I wish it was for me (truly I do), but I listen to most of my music in the car. It didn't buffer the next set of songs nearly as well as Spotify, so when I went through low signal areas the music just stopped playing. And the Android Auto app wasn't as good. The sound quality was minimally better, but not good enough to overcome the other issues.
Thats why I keep an old iPod too :)
Signs your business model has truly failed.
Time to switch to Qobuz then. Goodbye Spotify.
Now I have a problem with this statement in a vacuum.
Zero: I am based in Germany. So not as many dystopian laws and decisions as in the USA
First: Yes, Spotify bad, Hooray Jellyfin, ripping CDs and owning the media you have. Also good for the artists.
Second: I had ads played to me. But it only happened on podcasts.
Third: I had talked to the Spotify support: https://imgur.com/a/Ulis7Oe
(TLDR: Podcast publishers (e.g. LTT with their WANshow or Dallas Taylor with 20 Thousand Hertz) can decide if they want to play ads. They happened to me inbetween episodes)
So yeah. Now it would be very interesting what this random person encountered where.
My wife and daughter had heard ads sparingly and they only listen to music. I assumed it was some sort of bug because it is very infrequent, but with today's corps I should probably invoke the inverse of Hanlon's Razor and just assume malice.
Hanlon's Razor Whose Hanlon and why do you need his razor? It's more hygienic to buy one from the store
Again? Lol
Just a heads up, Deezer has been working hard to improve their UI a great deal. It is so much less stressful to navigate than Spotify. Sound quality is also better to me. And not being forced to mix music with ad-infused podcasts is so very nice.
Deezer played ICE recruitment ads last year on their service.
Didn't the creator also dox a customer for criticizing them?
why is it stressful? you search for the track, and you click play.
Yeah, I do that.... On Deezer. 👍👍
No. It's just the principle of not supporting fascist enabling bootlickers
I've been using YT music anyway, but I recently started using my Navidrome server by just yt-dlp'ing albums + tag with MusicBrainz picard and boom. A bunch of songs I can own until my server burns down.
I feel a little bad about pirating, but I'm a college student who hasn't even gotten a job yet... But I will be buying merch or music off bandcamp in the future when I know I have the budget for it!
Bandcamp is very nice!
I recommand monochrome(.)tf, it's basically Tidal for free so it has much better quality than YouTube
Thank you for this!
Why do people even use Spotify at this point?
Me personally, just because someone else is paying for it. The second they stop, I'll go somewhere else.
They have far more niche music than anyone else. I mean that from a Finnish perspective.
Sharing and creating playlists with friends. Discovering new music. Endless playlists of high quality for all genres and moods. Family plan is cheap.
Their search function and recommendations are really good. Other than that, no idea. Convenience
Song-based radios for new music discovery on a service where they don’t silently drop huge swaths of music from my curated “liked” list. Tidal, Qobuz, and Bandcamp failed to meet this requirement in different ways.
Spotify isn’t even good, but I don’t have another real option yet.
It's still been cheaper than the alternatives if you buy for multiple people, and has most of my native country's artists at this point. I'd like to switch, but I'm worried the other services don't offer enough finnish music, and just couple euros more is a lot of money when you are poor.
Of course you could say "don't pay for these if you're poor", but it's the only subscription I'm paying for, and I feel like abandoning every single thing that can still bring me joy is kinda asking for my depression peak so I'm back to trying to hang myself again.
Though the moment I hear adds or the price increases again, I'll obviously switch immediately
Convenience of instant access to gazillion songs, though i'm not sure if the average spotify user even listens to anything other than top-lists
I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.
I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho
FYI Pandora was playing ICE recruitment ads on their service last year.
The minute I have ads in my paid subscription it's a cancel
Exactly why I canceled Amazon Prime. 100% would recommend canceling. I don’t miss it.
And then they wonder why everyone is fixing the hulls of their ships and getting new sails.
Edit: whats family plan these days? 20€/month? My local record shop has new albums for 20€. I'd guess you can find a lot of good stuff on sale for 10€. So might as well buy an album or two per month. In a year you'd already have 12-24 albums. You can make a decent playlist out of those. Do that for a few years and you have a excellent music collection that lasts decades. Spotify is stupid and pointless if you really think about it.
1.: I divide the payment of Family across 3 members.
2.: I listen to so many songs individually, it would bankrupt me to buy every single song individually or the full album.
3.: I'll buy an album (2nd hand discogs (so good)/ebay, digitally on wherever or bandcamp). If I don't like the music as much or the buying process is annoying, I'll pirate the song.
So yeah. It depends.
It's a bug, not a change of policy
