Tidal
This was an alternative to Spotify that I’ve seen being recommended. I’ve tried it during work as a way to try and escape Spotify’s onslaught of ads. However, after I created a playlist on Tidal of songs I wanted playing, all of them went for 30 seconds a piece. I couldn’t deal with it and ran right back to Spotify to have a functioning playlist.
Op, I don’t think you had an active subscription. You can’t expect to get ad free music at no cost to you and the artist be paid. You got to pick 2 of the 3. Edit: to also add an answer: any alternatives to Word or Adobe Acrobat, unfortunately.
Spotify gives me 30 minutes of ad-free listening time. They even allow limitless skipping which used to be barred by subscribing. It’s absolutely absurd and asinine that you would limit all songs to 30 seconds unless you’ve paid. That’s how you not get people to pay your shitty service.
If I’m preferring to deal with ads between a handful of songs at a time than having their songs cut down to 30 seconds, they can eat shit. Who the fuck does that?
Tidal gives you 30 days free if you sign up, then you can cancel. I haven’t seen any plan that is 30 seconds of music or free with ads or anything like that.
If you had a free trial and then that ran out and you didn’t pay, that might be when you hit the 30 second limit, if the stupid AI summary is to be believed.
Is that what you did? Had it free for a month and then didn’t pay for it?