Stop using services that don't care about their users for

fuck

's sake

I used to get so annoyed at the auto correct to ducking but after a niece and nephew were introduced as variables I've found ducking the most effective sentence enhancer that doesn't provoke a parent teacher conference for my brother lol

Those arent spotify ads, they're the ads from the podcast. To my knowledge unless its a "spotify exclusive" all they are doing is fetching the RSS feed for you, not paying the creator anything regardless of your subscription status

And now they're showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.

It is convenience and easy to use. Both are equally important. I already have the arr stack perfectly running for movies and series but lidarr just seems difficult to work with. Been resorting to manually download few from those online tools that take it from tidal or qobuz but it's cumbersome. Tried to just buy qobuz, tidal and deezer but none of them are available here and couldn't get around it with VPN either. The only option I have are Spotify, apple, YouTube and amazon which I absolutely hate and refuse to buy because of the companies running it. Are there any plugins people are using for lidarr to pull from api or a script that I can write myself of better torrent sites that have consistent quality and massive library.

What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice

of course ads are inconvenient, the choice is between doing your own discovery and handling your own library with synchronization and what not, vs paying $12 a month (US).

I personally have no patience nor desire to manage the library myself and discover tracks, so it makes sense to me. But I'd rather not listen to anything than to listen to ads every 5 minutes.

because ads and service interruptions seem way more inconvenient to me than not having my music

You don't get ads when you actually pay for the service....

I like Spotify for music discovery (I don't have the time to discover music on my own). $42 CAD per year for premium is worth it for me.

I'm already running an ARR stack, so there would only be about 10 minutes of effort if I ever change my mind and add Lidarr.

Well the original reason I went to spotify was kinda cause someone I know was curious what my spotify wrapped would look like :3.. and then I kinda just never switched back, cause I couldn't be bothered adding all the new songs I listened to on spotify to my playlist at the time x3

Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.

Yeah, your right. uBlock Origin block advertisement on the browser. However, Spicetify blocks advertisement within the desktop app and allows for multiple add-ons/ extension plus customizing your entire app.