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Turn on incognito mode on YouTube to watch these videos

Heck I just use YouTube-DL to rip tracks like that to MP3 and copy them to my phone to play directly. That said maybe OP just wanted to vent about Spotify rather than find solutions.

Yeah, I youtube-dl audio tracks to stuff I frequently listen to and they end up in the downloads folder. So far it’s the simplest least invasive method I found on Ios

Yeah there are a lot of 8 hour "music for studying" tracks I listen to (I like the ones which are mixes of music from the halo video games, with a fav being a mix of the ODST soundtrack with additional rain noises), and those are a prime candidate for ripping versus streaming every time, killing the phone's battery and ending up with ads when you are wandering away from your device.

I use the VLC app on ios and transfer music using its wifi web interface, since my computers all run linux and can't easily transfer MP3s to the phone any other way.

I use VLC on iOS as well, but primarily for videos.

There’s the Decoupled app which is pretty neat for playing audio on iOS. You can transfer audio files using Wi-Fi.

oh cool thanks for the tip!

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