Method 2: How to Block Ads on Spotify without Premium
Instead of getting a Spotify premium plan, another way is to use a third-party Spotify ad blocker. It can download Spotify songs locally without ads so that you can listen to ad-free music offline.
The tool we can meet here is AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader. It is not only a Spotify ad blocker for Mac and Windows, it's also a music downloader and converter for Spotify. It is capable of downloading and convert Spotify to MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, and M4B without ads. It can keep high-quality local Spotify audio files. Even if you are using a free Spotify account, you can also use it to block ads on Spotify on Mac and Windows computers.
Ad blocking has been used by over two million of Spotify's customers, the company revealed last year. Now, it's going to try to eliminate these accounts permanently. Changes to its terms of.
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- EZBlocker – Spotify Ad Blocker. EZBlocker is a simple-to-use ad blocker/muter for Spotify. EZBlocker will attempt to block ads on Spotify from loading. If an ad does load, EZBlocker will mute Spotify until the ad is over. There are no fancy features, just pure ad blocking. When an ad is blocked, only Spotify is muted, so no other sounds will.
AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader
- Download Spotify songs and playlists for offline playback
- Convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, WAV, etc.
- Remove ads from Spotify songs, playlists, albums, audiobooks
- Work at 5X faster speed, edit music quality and parameters
How to Block Ads on Spotify on Mac/PC
Step 1. Launch AudFree program on your computer with Spotify opened. Just sign in to your free Spotify account. You can drag and drop tracks from Spotify to the main interface. Or you can copy and paste the URL of Spotify files to the search box of AudFree.
Spotify Ad Blocker Script
Step 2. To get high output audio quality, you'd better open the 'setting' window. To do that, please click the 'Preference' -> 'Convert' option. And then, you can customize the bit rate as 320 kbps. Also, you can set the output format as you need.
Step 3. Now, you need to hit on the 'Convert' button. This professional software will download Spotify files to the computer blocking the ads. After conversion, you can listen to Spotify songs on all devices without ads.
Note: If you are using AudFree Spotify Playlist Downloader for Windows to disable ads on PC, you’d better to log in the 30-day free trial premium account. And then it will download ad-free Spotify playlists to common audio files successfully.
Note: To view the download page, visit: https://www.ericzhang.me/projects/spotify-ad-blocker-ezblocker/
Unsatisfied with the current ad blockers for Spotify, I decided to make my own.
The major problems I found with the publicly available ones were:
(1) They hook onto Spotify in a really weird way that messes up the window (can’t minimize, drags Spotify off the screen, changes Spotify’s size to 1×1)
(2) They didn’t work at times (ads still played)
(3) They didn’t work with some Spotify apps (most notably, Soundrop)
(4) Some just mute the whole computer instead of just Spotify.
The solution? EZBlocker! It’s is an extremely simple ad blocker for Spotify that works on a blacklist (“blocklist”). When an ad plays, a notification balloon will appear, which, when clicked, will add that ad to the blocklist. When an ad is blocked, only Spotify is muted, so other sounds (like ones from a game) will be unaffected.
Spotify Ad Blocker Windows
There’s no fancy features, just pure ad blocking. You can find a download link and the source code on my projects page here.