for anyone who still uses spotify, here's a good adblock thingy
i barely use spotify, but it works for me
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I'm the owner of a family plan with 5 friends on it I suppose i could just tell one of them it's their problem now. I haven't downloaded music to a device in so long but it really is high time to do the annoying work i guess
you can use navidrome over same local library and one of airsonic-compatible apps on the phone that will allow you to ~~download~~ cache them on the phone, so if you have big boy storage phone - it's a solution for sync issues of your own files
oh yeah I meant to ask if there was a good service for streaming my local library. haven't heard of navidrome, thanks I'll look into it
if you don't need dlna or logitech media server it's perfectly fine and simple, it uses airsonic/subsonic standard and there are lots of apps for them 
(but not so great on something like smart audio, i think, where you don't have apps, and where dlna/lms might matter)
Spotube is a good alternative to Spotify if you still want to stream music from there. It's free and open source. The only issue is that sometimes it plays the wrong source for a song, but you can easily change it with the press of a button.
I deleted Spotify December 2022 when it informed me I was the number 2 listener on Spotify for Sturgill Simpson for the year of our lord 2022.
I mean, I’m the one who listened that much but for some reason having it quantified made me want to boot the app.
I just use Youtube. Not Youtube Music or Premium or whatever but I just have a browser on my phone that lets you keep Youtube videos running while the screen is off so I just use that. Get fucking scammed Google
I've never used spotify
There's basically no reason to use Spotify if you aren't paying for premium and there's dwindling reasons if any to keep paying for that.
yeah the free version just kept getting worse. I knew it was over when the app tried to force me to listen to Jack Harlow, instead of just letting me continue the last playlist I was listening to
besides Spotify still makes money from the ads even if I'm muting them, and I don't want to contribute another penny to that corporation
i ditched spotify when it became clear that rogan was a gateway drug to fascism and i wish that i had done it sooner.
it's non-english, non-pop music is lacking; but it works for me since the library that they do have for those 2 filters is as old as i am. lol
I won't lie, I broke down and re-installed (free) Spotify. I was stubbornly sticking to Bandcamp and my cd's for the past year, but eventually wanted to broadly listen to stuff I didn't own.
Lately, because Newpipe has been fucked, I've been listening to shit I pirated twenty years ago through a piece of Free Software called Phonograph Plus
Newpipe is good after the last update 👍
It tells me it's on the latest version (0.27.5), but every video stops playing after like 30s