Visual Ads / Audio quality

artemgordinskiy / Spotifree

An OS X app that automatically mutes ads on Spotify [DISCONTINUED]

http://spotifree.gordinskiy.com

MIT License

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Visual Ads / Audio quality #34

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 10 years ago

Hey!

First at all... terryfic app you got there, it's the best that I've tried. OTOH I know how to disable Visual Ads and enable the High Quality Streaming... I think those would be a good addition for the app. Please let me know if you're interested.

Regards.

artemgordinskiy commented 10 years ago

Hey! Sounds interesting. How do I do that?

ghost commented 10 years ago

Great!

Ads all come from Google, so blocking Spotify's TCP outbound traffic for 173.194.46.* on ports 80 and 443 did the trick (I'm using TCPBlock to achieve this). No more full-screen/left/center ads, on the bottom a white box is visible nonetheless (no way around this, since this fires the call to ad-servers).
For higher bitrate stream add audio.play_bitrate=320000 to the preferences file (/Users/Username/Library/Application Support/Spotify/prefs), next time you see preferences inside the app the checkbox is present.

The higher bitrate can be added really easy, if blocking ads is way too difficult at least a hint for the TCPBock can be provided it's free and it's a 1mb download.

artemgordinskiy commented 10 years ago

Thanks, great job on finding these out!

ghost commented 10 years ago

After further inspection a new pattern for Google Ads popped out: **74.125.224.***

cebarks commented 9 years ago

From what I can tell, the higher bitrate hack does not work, it resets the prefs file when it starts up.

lothar-cell commented 9 years ago

The high bit rate hack kind of works, if you add it to the user prefs, which is in

(/Users/Username/Library/Application Support/Spotify/Users/+Your Username+/prefs)

However it cannot play every 3rd song or so. So yeah, it is useless at the moment:) Any insights how to make it work?

ghost commented 9 years ago

Isn't this closed because nothing works.....?

nos1609 commented 7 years ago

Hi! Tested this bash script during a week echo "audio.play_bitrate=320000" >> /Users/nos1609/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs It works, but resets once spotify exits, probably gets overwritten. Is there a possiility to automate this within your app?

ghost commented 7 years ago

If you have hombrew (you should), install watch and gnu-sed (with --with-default-names flag) then instead of appending the same text over and over just replace the value every XXX seconds:

watch -n XXX sed -r 's/^(audio.play_bitrate).*/\1=320000/' -i /Users/nos1609/Library/Application\ Support/Spotify/prefs

Hope it helps but YMMV, try and play a little with that... (I ditched Spotify for Apple Music.)