I use Spotify on my computer from time to time but I hate when the Ads start playing.
The first solution I was using was blocking Spotify Ads DNS's, but that stopped working after a while.
I don't mind having a break between a few songs, but I don't wanna hear the Ads, so I decided to create a small script to hack it.
The script does the following:
- Using OSX log system I can listen to Spotify events.
- Read the events and check if an Ad is about to be played.
- If the event is an Ad about to be played automatically mute system audio.
- If the next event is a song, unmute system audio.
How to install it
- Open a new terminal (use Spotlight search and type terminal.app)
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Inside the new window paste this command and then hit enter
mkdir -p ~/MuteSpotifyAds && curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gdi3d/mute-spotify-ads-mac-osx/master/NoAdsSpotify.sh > ~/MuteSpotifyAds/NoAdsSpotify.sh This will create a new folder inside your Home folder called
MuteSpotifyAdsand will place a new file calledNoAdsSpotify.sh-
To run the program just copy and paste the code below in the terminal and hit enter
sh ~/MuteSpotifyAds/NoAdsSpotify.sh To exit the program just close the terminal app or press Ctrl+c
Website
https://gdi3d.github.io/mute-spotify-ads-mac-osx/
Here's the repo if you want to know more:
https://github.com/gdi3d/mute-spotify-ads-mac-osx
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Top comments (8)
tnx dude ;)
No problem!, let me know if you found any bugs.
it dose not work, when you are using HDMI speaker
Thanks for reporting. I will work on a fix for this use case.
Hey, I've push a new release. More info on the ticket you opened.
Is it possible to just mute the Spotify Application via something like
github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundM... ? Sometimes I'm on a zoom call so I don't wanna mute the entire system audio
If you use the script with the hdmi option:
sh NoAdsSpotify.sh hdmiit will control the spotify application volume instead of the system audio.I'm not planning on integrating the script with other 3rds app at the moment.
I hope this helps ;)
Thanks! This works exactly how I wanted to!