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I'm paying Spotify Premium and still have to listen ads during the show. Spotify also sends video even though I just need the audio. It's a waste of valuable b

I'm paying Spotify Premium and still have to listen ads during the show. Spotify also sends video even though I just need the audio. It's a waste of valuable bandwidth and CPU. If there would an alternative I would take it. Anyway I have definitely listened JRE way less lately...

jjulius 5y ago
>I'm paying Spotify Premium and still have to listen ads during the show. I have Spotify and don't listen to podcasts much at all. When I have, it hasn't been on Spotify and I've always been able to skip through the recording to get past the ad (either with a "skip fwd 15 secs" button or by grabbing the slider and moving it manually). Does Spotify not offer that capability?
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  They’ve made it simple to skip ads because each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of. I assume they’re satisfied with this because my dragging my finger across the name of the advertiser is probably a better signal of impression than hoping I was actually present during the ad roll. But Apple podcasts “skip 15sec” is still easier, I can do it without looking while driving.
  - neartheplain 5y ago
    >each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of The first time this happened to me (while loading up a Joe Rogan podcast), I legitimately thought Spotify was glitching out. There's no visual indication in the app that it's a temporary ad, or of how many ads you have to listen to before the episode starts. I made it to the beginning of the third ad track before giving up.
    - jazzyjackson 5y ago
      I did experience an infinite ad loop once and force closed the app and opened it again. Spotify is buggy AF.
  - alex504 5y ago
    This works about 75% of the time, about 25% of the time it restarts the podcast and I have to go through the ads again. This is on android. There is also a bug I experience pretty regularly where the podcast will restart when I resume it so I lose my spot. Such a buggy piece of crap app.
a9h74j 5y ago
Not a single-video-file like solution, but you might think e.g. Youtube, Spotify etc could sync a separate audio file and stop the video streaming when a tab is hidden. Such a predictable waste of bandwidth, as you observe, that it might even merit browser support.
- Andys 5y ago
  YouTube premium does this.
- Andys 5y ago
  YouTube premium does this
willcipriano 5y ago
The guys who rip it to YouTube cut out the commercials, and NewPipe delivers the audio feed ad free. I'm not a big Rogan guy but even if I paid for Spotify I'd probably watch it that way.
- nebula8804 5y ago
  Is there some reliable source of his podcasts on Youtube? Like a hidden channel or something that won't be taken down by copyright requests every 5 seconds?
  - willcipriano 5y ago
    A search for "Joe Rogan Full Podcast" (Full is a magic word on YouTube for this sort of thing, "Full Movie" "Full Episode" etc) typically works for me, but you may have to warm up the recommendation algorithm so it recommends similar channels to what you have watched before (ie. fly by night channels hosting ripped podcasts).
jjice 5y ago
There's a setting to disable video podcasts and only get the audio. I don't want to watch a podcast via Spotify, and I hate that it's hidden away in settings, but it is there.

jjulius 5y ago

>I'm paying Spotify Premium and still have to listen ads during the show. I have Spotify and don't listen to podcasts much at all. When I have, it hasn't been on Spotify and I've always been able to skip through the recording to get past the ad (either with a "skip fwd 15 secs" button or by grabbing the slider and moving it manually). Does Spotify not offer that capability?

jazzyjackson 5y ago
They’ve made it simple to skip ads because each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of. I assume they’re satisfied with this because my dragging my finger across the name of the advertiser is probably a better signal of impression than hoping I was actually present during the ad roll. But Apple podcasts “skip 15sec” is still easier, I can do it without looking while driving.
- neartheplain 5y ago
  >each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of The first time this happened to me (while loading up a Joe Rogan podcast), I legitimately thought Spotify was glitching out. There's no visual indication in the app that it's a temporary ad, or of how many ads you have to listen to before the episode starts. I made it to the beginning of the third ad track before giving up.
  - jazzyjackson 5y ago
    I did experience an infinite ad loop once and force closed the app and opened it again. Spotify is buggy AF.
- alex504 5y ago
  This works about 75% of the time, about 25% of the time it restarts the podcast and I have to go through the ads again. This is on android. There is also a bug I experience pretty regularly where the podcast will restart when I resume it so I lose my spot. Such a buggy piece of crap app.

a9h74j 5y ago

Not a single-video-file like solution, but you might think e.g. Youtube, Spotify etc could sync a separate audio file and stop the video streaming when a tab is hidden. Such a predictable waste of bandwidth, as you observe, that it might even merit browser support.

Andys 5y ago
YouTube premium does this.
Andys 5y ago
YouTube premium does this

willcipriano 5y ago

The guys who rip it to YouTube cut out the commercials, and NewPipe delivers the audio feed ad free. I'm not a big Rogan guy but even if I paid for Spotify I'd probably watch it that way.

nebula8804 5y ago
Is there some reliable source of his podcasts on Youtube? Like a hidden channel or something that won't be taken down by copyright requests every 5 seconds?
- willcipriano 5y ago
  A search for "Joe Rogan Full Podcast" (Full is a magic word on YouTube for this sort of thing, "Full Movie" "Full Episode" etc) typically works for me, but you may have to warm up the recommendation algorithm so it recommends similar channels to what you have watched before (ie. fly by night channels hosting ripped podcasts).

jjice 5y ago

There's a setting to disable video podcasts and only get the audio. I don't want to watch a podcast via Spotify, and I hate that it's hidden away in settings, but it is there.