Some people might be willing to put up with them, but I've gone back to collecting mp3s at soulseek and boy does it feel good to be back at collecting music (not to mention audiobooks and other audio).Įven a single evening of collecting music yielded hundreds of albums, so it took virtually no effort to reconstruct some of my larger spotify playlists.
My biggest annoyances with spotify (the free webplayer) is the adblocker not working so I have to manually start the playlist again every so often and the other is that music tends to play at different volume levels so some music in the playlist is too loud and other music is too soft. Spotify has outright announced that it will bring Spotify Podcast Ads to the UK for all users and US-based Premium subscribers are already hearing ads on podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience. Now I find myself switching frequently between different browser and adblocker combinations to find one that might work again for a while, but if that annoys me enough, I will simply switch back to downloading mp3s, because this has many advantages over streaming music at spotify.įor instance, I can have multiple playlists shuffling endlessly and independently and most music is easy to find online.Īlso, I can normalize the volume so the music all plays at roughly the same volume. Ok, I get it, ads sponsor spotify, but why not just have banner ads instead of interrupting the flow of the playlist with ads?
