is self-hosted streaming a thing?
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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Ads take up those "30 minutes of ad-free listening"
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.
Or buy ad space to play a short song.
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.
Yup. And sometime last year they made getting a cracked version of Spotify an incredible pain in the ass and the guy updating the crack stopped supporting it and instead is choosing to focus on YouTube ReVanced.
My library on Spotify is over 6k songs. Been trying to slowly get them downloaded onto my phone.
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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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.
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.
Music streaming makes this worse. Radio has become a race to the bottom. If you're listening to radio you probably prefer the bullshit gossip.
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That's supposed to be a comma - "Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening"
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Did they say thirty minutes in a row?
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
I’m more bothered by there being ads inserted in podcasts when I’m a paying customer tbh
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