using a Sony Xperia X, running Android 8.0 Spotify version currently 8.7.8.233 Ad-silence version 0.5.2

Ad-silence has notification access and is enabled to mute ads. Spotify is enabled under 'select apps', and the Ad-silence notification is always visible on the notification drawer, regardless of Spotify status. battery optimisation is disabled for Ad-silence.

when ads are playing, the Ad-silence notification displays 'listening for ads', same as when music plays, or when Spotify itself is closed.

i also use Spotify Lite, but ads are muted every time (except for the final second), though.

let me know if i can provide any more information. thank you for your time.

refer #63

Test out new ad detection for Spotify.

On top of the existing detections, added new logic to detect ads, if the old logic does not catch the ads, the new logic is activated.

did not remove old detection because that might cause bugs/unexpected behaviour in existing flow.

closes #63

Info:

• Pixel 6
• Android 12 (Build #SD1A.210817.027, if that matters)
• Spotify v8.6.82.1113

Tried playing a podcast on Spotify, waiting for Ads, and nothing happened. The ads play, I see "Advertisement" in the notification title, and I see the Ad Silence persistent notification (so the app was running). I had granted permission before running Spotify, and seemed to complete all the steps required to configure Ad Silence 🤔

I can try and debug locally to get some more info in logcat - are there specific log tags/messages I can search for or filter on?

Hello, app is working great on Spotify, but would it be possible to implement into Spotify Stations? The same ads seem to run on there, I'm hoping they are all triggered the same way and it would be a (relatively) easy thing for you to do. Thanks for the consideration!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.zerotap

The reasoning mentioned was that the "app Icon" was in violation of the terms. I'm contacting policy support team regarding this issue.

I'll update this thread on updates.

Solution

You can still use one of the following links to get the official apks

• https://f-droid.org/packages/bluepie.ad_silence/
• https://github.com/aghontpi/ad-silence/releases

update 1

App was reinstated after Changing the Icon and Submitting for review.

update 2

I could not get a straight answer from the support team, (I believe the old icon was not violating terms) - not pursuing this further, closed this issue.

this pr fixes #29

The issue occurs because of different language locale.

A new file is created for "ad detection", any new words or false positives can be added or removed by changing this file.

app/src/main/java/bluepie/ad_silence/triggers/Spotify.kt

seems like spotify might have blanked out its advertisement notifications. using https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.jl.notificationlog/ I looked at the spotify notifications when ads came on and they were blank. they are also not being muted but I think this is why.

I've tested on android 5.0.1 (x2), 5.0.2 and the ads are muted, but when the next song comes on it is still muted. I'm not able to manually unmute w/o closing the ad-silence app.

I've tested on Android 6.0 and 7.1 and there are no issues with muting and unmuting.

Since you wrote you would be open to adding more streaming services, I was wondering if you could please also block YouTube ads? I don't use the Android app but just go through the web and I use Bromite as my browser and the Puffer app to block other ads and I still get the YouTube ads. Thanks

Hello. After watching a video on YouTube I discovered your app xd and I was wondering if you plan to support YouTube Music (the app version). Have you considered it?

Logcat error:

                         E  Process: bluepie.ad_silence, PID: 32424
                         E  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bluepie.ad_silence: Targeting S+ (version 31 and above) requires that one of FLAG_IMMUTABLE
                            or FLAG_MUTABLE be specified when creating a PendingIntent.
                         E  Strongly consider using FLAG_IMMUTABLE, only use FLAG_MUTABLE if some functionality depends on the PendingIntent being mutable,
                            e.g. if it needs to be used with inline replies or bubbles.
                         E      at android.app.PendingIntent.checkFlags(PendingIntent.java:375)
                         E      at android.app.PendingIntent.getActivityAsUser(PendingIntent.java:458)
                         E      at android.app.PendingIntent.getActivity(PendingIntent.java:444)
                         E      at android.app.PendingIntent.getActivity(PendingIntent.java:408)
                         E      at e.h.c(:4)
                         E      at e.h.h(Unknown Source:0)
                         E      at bluepie.ad_silence.NotificationListener.onListenerConnected(Unknown Source:18)
                         E      at android.service.notification.NotificationListenerService$MyHandler.handleMessage(NotificationListenerService.java:2319)
                         E      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
                         E      at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
                         E      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
                         E      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7839)
                         E      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                         E      at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
                         E      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)

Running on a Pixel 6; I can debug/install locally from the repo if needed, just lemme know.

This method would allow users to add players currently not supported and once they had it working an option to submit to you could be provided simplifying the addition of additional music services.

This is identical to the way the "ad block for spotify" app does things and I believe it's open source so the actual code may even be available.

last few days not working with Spotify, on the advertisement and the player stops playing media, need to resume manually again to start playing. Spotify work perfectly without ad-silence app on.