They alao have done very little about the misinformation Joe Rogan continues to spout.

It's amazing it became so popular. I got sick of the lack of true shuffle and radio and went back to Pandora. It's so much better than Spotify I can't imagine going back.

I went back to just downloading it. Got a 512gb SD card in my phone with 180GB of music on it and about 40GB of podcasts. Spotify is just for when I want to find new stuff to listen to.

Amateur. 120 gb myself.

(Seriously though, that's awesome 👍 )

10,000 songs on a SDcard in my car.

Why are you not using adblock and/or revanced?

I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I'd just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.

^*^not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.

Actually not.
I like listening to the WAN show podcast from LTT. Amd as most here prpbably know they are very keen on monetizing a lot on their content.
As it turns out Spotify has different settings between podcasts and music. And they offer the creators to enable ads (even for premium subs) inbetween podcast episodes.
So if you queue the LTT-podcast after a regular song, you can get advertisements before and after an episode.
You can scrub through or skip the ad but it requires manual interaction to do so. And hot keys like on (BT-)headsets don't work.

I confirmed their existence with the Spotify support

I pirate, use soundcloud and buy vinyls as much as I can.

Only reason not to ditch spotify is that you want your donations to go to turning america into more of a 3rd world shithole, starting world war 3 and disrupting the entire global economy, or you really love ai music being shoved down your throats in order to destroy smaller artists and benfit the 3 giant lables.

I dunno why you left! I've never understood what was good or better than pirating about these streaming services. Everyone says convenience, but I don't think that's the real reason, because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music.

Also, stop fucking using it

Yeah, the complaining about spotify's free tier is something I just don't get. I grew up listening to the goddamn radio. No choice in what to listen to and ads all the time. But when your jam came on, it felt great every time.

I'm on a family plan with some friends. I've discovered a ton of new music because of Spotify. I've gone to many shows, bought merch, vinyls, for bands I never would've known had it not been for Spotify.

I'm just not sure what people want, but it reeks of entitlement. If you're gonna pirate music, by all means, go to town. Nobody cares.

How many AI songs you have tho? Spotify has other ways to make money for itself and its cronies, namely by shoving fake generated music that big lables own down your playlist so the big label cartel gets more profit.