IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.

Why not just stop using spotify? You cant possibly stream enough to cost them more then they earn in a month from you using it. Even on mute they can still count you as an active user when it comes to selling ads and promiting themselves.

If you really want to hurt spotify, use one of the services like Soundiiz that lets you export your lists and library, grab a 2 month trial of tidal for $2 and point tidal-dl to download it all for offline use. Get yourself a nice dedicated music player like a classic ipod running rockbox. If space is an issue convert from flac to opus.

If you really, really, want to hurt spotify do what i did and take the above instructions and then also spin up your own FunkWhale pod so everyone can also enjoy that music without giving corporations like spotify a dime.

We arent going beat corporations by using their products "too much", the way to beat them is to replace them with self hosted alternatives.

AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

Spotify doesn't pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify's profits are split between artists based on their streams. A single user heavily streaming is imperceptibly lowering 'revenue per stream' by increasing overall streams but only paying for one subscription.

By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you're probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your 'radio'. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you'll like.

But since this is probably not enough to move those percentages, you're only messing up your own algorithm.

Why even use Spotify at all? Isn't it like the worst option in terms of actually paying creators? Even YouTube Music is much better option imho, although the app is unresponsive and a UX nightmare.

They stopped paying out for that after Sleepify in 2014.

Jokes on you. They just dilute the royalty payment among all the artists you've streamed, so Spotify's cut isn't really bring affected.

Fun right?

I use Tidal instead of Spoofie

Same price, higher quality audio, and imo a better recommendation feed

What is a "spotify"?

/s

Revenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream

I always do this accidentally when my earphones' battery runs out

So you pay Spotify money each month. Do you really think that they are paying artists more than you pay them? Doubt it.

PSA: there is a revanced patch to remove ads from spotify

Who... who are the corpos paying to?

...doesn't that just give them free advertising credits?

Spotify wants this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNsrwokPSY

I just run it on the TV through my Xbox for the cats

I really thought it said "nutting" instead of "muting". I was so confused and the photo of Hank Hill did not help with that confusion.