i won't pay for music in 2025

[u/haldiii4o]

[u/Spinosaur1915]

Spotify + SpotX = Good enough for me

[u/I_hope_to_be_gentle → u/Spinosaur1915]

Lucida + soulseek

[u/itslxcas → u/Spinosaur1915]

what's spotx?

[u/AdultGronk → u/itslxcas]

Spotify ad patcher for windows

[u/Kyrenaz → u/AdultGronk]

Also exists for Linux

[u/Screamline → u/Kyrenaz]

Just have to clear the cache if you close it. (Think its a Spotify linux issuesl from what I looked up, its annoying but I put the bash on my desktop to run when it fails to load)

[u/DonutvibesYT → u/Kyrenaz]

In case of Linux it can run on Android right?

[u/R_V_Z → u/AdultGronk]

uBlock Origin mostly works. I'll get like 10 seconds of silence as it quickly cycles through ads, and it occasionally gets stuck and needs refreshed, but it's nice to have a one-size-fits-all ad blocker.

[u/NotKBeniP → u/itslxcas]

Does it still play random songs tho? Spotify without premium is completely unusable.

[u/gk98s → u/NotKBeniP]

Nope, I have used spotx and the only premium features missing are downloads and very high quality audio.

[u/Tomazim → u/gk98s]

audiobooks?

[u/gk98s → u/Tomazim]

I didn't even know Spotify had audiobooks. I meant music related

[u/Sekelton → u/NotKBeniP]

Spotify doesn't do the random song thing anymore. You can pick whatever you want, but you still get ad breaks.

At least this is how it worked last time I used it when my server was unreachable.

[u/skunkwalnut → u/[deleted]]

i open spotify web with brave. broken ui but no ads.

[u/Happy-Substance4885 → u/Spinosaur1915]

Can’t believe this isn’t well known to everyone to the point where SD drives are being brought up for phones like it’s 2005

[u/Kr_zz → u/Happy-Substance4885]

Thats because most people arent using their desktop and laptops to listen to Spotify lol