Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hunh. The open-source version I use does all that and more, for free. 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which is that? I’ve been experimenting with what it would take to auto detect ad reads in podcasts but I hadn’t come across any existing projects in my research.

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    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are several to research.

      FMHYdotnet may be useful.

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• qkall@friendica.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @Lemmynated please consider qobuz if you can't self host and such.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m on Apple Music and I don’t get ads. Spotify Premium users do??

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  • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are on podcasts, but not on regular music

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  • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess this may ads in podcast type stuff? don’t know.

    Yeah:

    In a significant threat to ad-funded shows, Spotify is testing a new feature in its app that will let users skip the ads in podcasts.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Title didn’t mention podcasts, at all.

      But it says premium users, who are paying. If you’re paying, you should be able to skip ads. If they’re ad funded, they shouldn’t be charging for access. If they’re ad funded and aren’t charging for access, but Spotify is letting premium users skip the ads, Spotify should be paying them.

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  • cowfodder@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes. In podcasts. Just like Apple Music users do.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen podcasts in Apple Music. Then again, I don’t go looking for them. I mainly do audiobooks… and the ones I play don’t have ads. ;)

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are they blocking Spotify ads or host-added ads, a la SponsorBlock? Because I understand YT has been doing the latter for a good long while.

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