Just wanted to chime in and say that uBlock Origin also blocks Spotify Advertisements through web.
So if you’re okay with the webversion of Spotify, you can use that.
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Xmanager is perfectly safe, been using it for a couple of years now. For a client, I recommend Spicetify. Setup is a bit more involved than a simple launcher but all instructions are provided and as simple as copy/paste. It also has editable themes and plugins for all kinds of additional functionality via a (free) marketplace. I've been using that for about 3 years and now won't accept anything less.
Just download the official client and use SpotX
thank you, regarding Android?
xmanager
Yeah this works perfect for me too. Using full installation it even download the latest working Spotify and removes the ms store version automatically. But I can also confirm mrpond blockthespot is also safe, just different developers and less features.
xManager is safe. I've been using it for a few months now
i use spotube
I had high hopes when I tried it out but frankly it's been almost unusable for me. Terrible performance, laggy UI, plenty of bugs, long loading times for songs...
I don't know if something in my mobile environment was messing with it but I use quite a few indie FOSS apps still in beta and none of them worked as badly as Spotube did. I'd love to go back to it if it improves, but for now it's just not worth the UX pain.
Edit: forgot to mention. The idea of sourcing tracks from YouTube is cool but causes loads od trouble in practice. I've found remixed versions streamed as the original, tracks with the intro from the music video, tracks with sound effects from the music video, and tracks that just cannot be streamed cause they aren't on YouTube. I know there's a feature to pick which version to stream, but it's quite a bit of UX friction and it didn't work often enough to be a showstopper.
tf you talking about? i have a shitty phone and no performance issues from spotube
can you please check if it has discovery weekly playlist? The main reason I use Spotify, it's very accurate to what I like to listen
under the discover new music category