• greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
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          I don’t think so. I use audiobookshelf’s companion app on my phone, which does. audiobookshelf manages all the subscriptions and pulling and whatnot, it seems to do a decent job keeping me sane on the commute.

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            Thanks, Gonna check this one out then, having multiple play queues sounds awesome. Currently I’m having to use VLC and blackplayer so I can go back and forth between podcasts and music without losing my place.

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              It’s definitely worth at least checking out the free trial, it’s the best music player I’ve ever used on any platform. The dev is also very active and there are new features dropping constantly

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      Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them

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        This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.

        My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.

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        Yeah even on free I never got a Spotify add on a podcast. Those were the podcasts themselves putting ads in.

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        Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

        Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app

        Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…

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          Did they stop just grabbing podcasts from the free web and playing them in Spotify? I remember from a few years ago that some podcasts were complaining and willing to sue Spotify for stealing their content.

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            I don’t care for podcasts at all, it’s just because they’re adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don’t have ads except the abc’s if you’re listening and it’s what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?

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        Inserted ads, although in my experience they’re placed by the podcast network rather than Spotify.