Pithos running commercials now!

[cybrsaylr]

Loved listening to Pithos because all its excellent music was commercial free.

Did that all end? Tonight noticed Pithos is now running commercial ads about every 15 minutes. Anyone know what's going on? Also are there any other Internet music stations that are still unpolluted by ads and remain commercial free?

[QIII]

Move to The Cafe

[cybrsaylr]

Was hoping to give this Pithos discovery a wide as possible exposure, so thought the General Forum was the ideal place to achieve that.
Looks like the Cafe will not give the wide exposure that was hoped.....ijs

Feel like this thread was sent off to the boonies.....lol

[coffeecat]

so thought the General Forum was the ideal place to achieve that.

It wasn't. From General Help forum description:

All your general support questions for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu.

This is not a technical support thread and the Cafe is where this sort of discussion has taken place for years now.

[Erik1984]

Soma FM is commercial free but they ask for donations every now and then in between the music (that's how they can be commercial free in the first place). http://somafm.com/ Some of their channels are included in the bookmarks list of RadioTray.

[lykwydchykyn]

Pithos is a pandora client. Pandora plays ads. If you want ad-free pandora, get a subscription to Pandora. It's like $4 a month or something.

For a while, I guess, Pithos did not support streaming the ads. This was bad for Pandora, because they have to pay royalties for broadcasting these songs, just like a radio station ( I know because ASCAP is always griping about how Pandora isn't paying them enough ). I can guarantee you that nobody is playing commercial copyrighted music for free without ads (or some other revenue stream, like donations) legally.

If you want legally free music, check out a service like Jamendo where people post their original content under a creative commons license.

[Frogs Hair]

I have yet to see or hear any ads, but have seen no updates for Pithos since installing 13.10 . I have elpis for Win 7 and see no ads there either. Is this up-coming ? http://code.google.com/p/elpis-pandora-client/

[cybrsaylr]

Used to listen to Pandora but didn't like the ads. Switched to their Pithos client after hearing it was ad free months ago and loved it. Usually have it running some music all the time when on the computer. Have Pithos 0.3.17 version and yesterday I was surprised and disappointed to start hearing ads that run about every 15 minutes now.

[Frogs Hair]

I ran Pithos 3.17 for three hours last night and had no ads . I should note that last.fm scrobbling hasn't been authorized and don't know if that makes a difference , but again I have no adds today.

[cybrsaylr]

Interesting Frogs Hair.

Running Pithos now and gets ads ~ every 15 minutes.
Went into Pithos Settings > Preferences and see that 'authorize last.fm scrobbling' button at the bottom. When it is clicked, it opens Firefox and takes me to a, Log in to Last.fm, page to sign in. At that point I cancel because I stopped using Last.fm because they also run ads. Would signing in to Last.fm make any difference for Pithos?

FWIW not sure If I signed into Last.fm in the past here and forgot about doing that......