Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?
Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?
I pay for Spotify for 7 years or so now and i'm so sick of all the ads. After every update there seems to be an: oops, sorry, you have ads now. Podcasts are filled with ads. I was just listening to a podcast where they shoved in 3 ads mid-sentence. How long until musicians put ads in their songs. I'm just so sick of it.
Are you sure it's not just the podcasters that put ads on thier pods?
I have had Spotify premium basically seance launch and haven't heard a singel ad from them seance.
But I have never really listened to any pods.
What seance did you perform for the no ads? /s
I have no clue, maybe they favour their home country.
@SgtAStrawberry some of them are. But some doesn't have ads and when i re-listen to them they have german ads that weren't there before. Also i don't really care, if i pay for no ads then i pay for no ads
That I totally understand. I just wanted to make it clear what type of ads we were talking about. I heard some people put them in the same category or even put recommendations in too. And while I understand the logic, about the two types of ads, Spotify, YouTube and similar can't really do much about the ads put in by the creator.
I've been paying for Spotify for about the same length of time and I still haven't heard a single ad placed by Spotify since going Premium. Any ads I've heard in podcasts are like the sponsored segments on a YouTube video; put there by the people making the podcast, not by Spotify and exist in the podcast no matter what source you got it from.
It's weird, I've seen quite a few posts like the OP relatively recently complaining about how Spotify premium suddenly has ads now. Yet I've had a premium subscription for 10 year now (rip my $$$) and have yet to hear a single ad since subbing. Well, unless it's a sponsored segment placed in there by the creator.
Maybe it's because I don't listen to many podcasts? But even when I have, I have literally never heard a Spotify ad. Maybe the specific podcasts I've listened to don't have the "feature" that OP describes.
Maybe it's regional? Maybe it's an error? Maybe OP doesn't recognize ads placed there by the content creator?
Could even be their subscription lapsed and they somehow didn't notice. It has, occasionally, not popped up with the big red banner telling me my payment didn't go through and I only knew something was wrong because I get ads and can't play the exact song I want because I was no longer using Premium.
What ads are you talking about? Music on Premium/Family has no audio ads period. The home screen offers music to listen to, but most are either genres you listen to, or overall popular items. I wouldn’t lump these in with ads for paper towels or fast food etc.
Podcasts are free and ad-supported. You might be able to get ad-free if you go out to each producer and subscribe. I think Wonderly did that maybe?
How long until musicians put ads in their songs
Boy do I have some bad news for you
If you want to listen to podcasts, you should use a podcast app. Not an ad service with podcast functionality.
Podcasts are free (most of them). You can use any podcast app you like. I like poket casts, but you can find about 100 other apps.
Android: Spotube
I second Spotube. I actually do pay for Spotify, but I've considered moving to Spotube entirely. I was really impressed when I tried it.
@LinkOpensChestwav what does it do exactly. I downloaded it and linked my Spotify account.
Thank you for this recommendation!
Deezer or Apple Music come to my mind. Never witnessed any ads there.
Used both (currently on AM but used Deezer thanks to a free trial).
They both have their exclusives and they might do something in relation to, say, a new album launch, but I've not had any blatant advertising on either of them. Apple's Podcast app on iOS is free, if they have an iPhone.
A lot of podcasters have an ad-free subscription service you can get through their patreon.
It might be worth tracking these down individually.
YouTube music's paid service has no ads, and you also get no ads on regular ol' YouTube under the same sub as well.
Music streaming + no ads on YouTube on any device without doing anything is so nice. If that perk gets dropped I'll probably drop YouTube music completely.
They won't drop the perk, but they will keep raising the price 🫠
Too bad it still sucks years after killing it's better brother, Play Music. Only reason I still pay is for YouTube premium
This is what I use. The only downside is no downloading. Otherwise it's saved me money.
A cd collection wouldn't have ads. Or like, a downloaded library
I can totally recommend AntennaPod as a Podcatcher.
InnerTune is great. It uses YT music. You can download musics from there. You can also login with your YT account to access your playlists. I am using it daily.
I have been paying for Spotify for 5 years now and haven't had a single audio ad. The app is full of ads, but I think they all are.
Either use Newpipe or patch YouTube music with Revanced
Xmanager on Android. Still Spotify but no ads.
For music I can only recommend spotube. It offers almost all features Spotify offers(except that Spotify que is better) and you can of course download music and don't have ads.
What about ViMusic??
@BruceTwarzen I think Amazon Music offers ad-free versions of certain podcasts that partner with them if you have an Amazon Music subscription. Since the ads are usually inserted into the audio track by the podcast's creators themselves, the distribution platforms don't have control over where they are placed.
Podcasts will have ads no matter where you listen to them. That's not Spotify inserting them, it's the podcasts. I pay for a family subscription to Spotify, and I never get ads in between songs, not after updates or anything.
The podcast may elect whether or not to include it, but it's definitely Spotify performing the legwork. That is unless you think it's a coincidence that I (with my Spotify home address set to Iowa) got an ad from the Iowa HHS on a podcast by a British podcaster.
It's called dynamic ad insertion, and it's the podcast hosts choosing to insert ads into their podcasts. I know this because I have a podcast with no ads.
Unless they're talking about ads that the podcasters themselves at to the recording. They're not all inserted by whatever platform you get them from. This is what they're referring to.
@ickplant sometimes they are. American podcast doesn't sometimes have german ads. And if they do, fuck them. That's like paying for netflix but some movies still have ads.
But it's literally the podcast hosts choosing to insert ads. Not Spotify. It would be like blaming Netflix because you didn't like what the characters are wearing on one of the movies.
Some movies do have ads - product placements. Yeah, they suck.
For podcasts, just use another podcast asp, or even the podcasts's website