While Spotify is letting us listen to streaming music completely for free, it's at the same time appending some restrictions to our listening experience. One of the most annoying things could be the ads that will randomly appear in the songs during the playback. To get ad-free music, Spotify encourages us to upgrade from free to its premium service by paying $9.99 monthly. In fact, except for subscribing to Spotify premium, there are more ways to block Spotify ads. Here are the top 4 Spotify ad-blocking methods you can follow.

Method 1. Block Ads on Spotify by Upgrading to Spotify Premium

The most popular way to remove ads on Spotify is to upgrade Spotify free account to Premium version, which will requires $9.99 monthly subscription fee. Printable graph paper for mac. After subscribing to Spotify Premium, you'll be able to listen to any Spotify track, album and playlist without ads in 320kbps high quality, as well as to download Spotify music offline on any device.

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Tutorial: How to Get Spotify Premium

Step 1. Go to homepage of Spotify official site. Find 'Get Spotify Premium' option from the page and click it.

Step 2. Spotify offers a 3-month trial plan that costs $0.99 a month for you to try the service before you decided to keep the premium subscription. Choose your payment method and enter the info and details as it requires.

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Step 3. Click 'Start My Spotify Premium' button at the end of the page to complete the subscription.

Note: You can cancel the premium membership anytime during the 3-month trial. If you don't cancel before the trial ends, you will be charged $9.99 + applicable tax each month by Spotify.

Method 2. Download Spotify Songs with Spotify Ad Blocker

Thanks to the fast growth of some 3rd-party Spotify music downloading services, blocking ads in Spotify has become possible and easy even without getting Spotify premium account. In other words, with these powerful tools, you'll be able to download ad-free Spotify music offline with even free account.

TunesKit Spotify Music Converter is such a smart ad blocker for Spotify that can remove the ads from Spotify songs while downloading Spotify music as MP3. It works with both free and premium users and only needs a few clicks to download any Spotify track, album or playlist offline. Besides, while removing ads, it also keeps the original sound quality and ID3 tags, including 320kbps bit rate, artist, title, date, etc. of every piece of Spotify songs.

Tutorial: How to Get Spotify Ad Free with TunesKit Spotify Ad Blocker

Step 1. Download and install TunesKit Spotify Music Converter on your computer. It works with the latest Mac and Windows OS, as well as the most up-to-date Spotify app.

Step 2. Open the program and it will launch Spotify app simultaneously. After that, browse the Spotify account and drag any track/album/playlist to TunesKit interface.

Step 3. Click 'Preferences' from top menu bar and select the output format as MP3 or AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc. Make changes to the bit rate, sample rate, audio channel if you like.

Step 4. Click 'Convert' button and wait for a while till the process completes. Then you'll be able to enjoy the ad-free Spotify songs offline on any MP3 player or mobile device.

• See Also: How to Remove Ads from Spotify with TunesKit Spotify Ad Blocker

Method 3. Block Spotify Ads with Free Spotify Ad Blocker

In case you are looking for free ways to skip ads on Spotify, we also provide two most popular Spotify ad blocker freeware that you can have a try.

1. EZBlocker

Rather than a free Spotify ad blocker, EZBlocker is more like an ad muter for Spotify which blocks ads on Spotify from loading. To be specific, whenever an ad loads upon the playback of Spotify track, EZBlocker will pause Spotify in the background until the ad is over. As a pure ad blocking tool for Spotify, EZBlocker only mutes the ads without affecting other sounds at all.

There's no setup required. To use the app, you can simply drag it to any folder and run. The following guide will show you how to install EZBlocker on your computer in order to mute ads in Spotify.

Tutorial: How to Remove Ads on Spotify with EZBlocker

Step 1. Download EZBlocker from its official site. Make sure you are running Windows 8/10 or Windows 7 with .NET Framework 4.5+.

Step 2. Right click the EZBlocker.exe and select 'Run as Administrator'.

Step 3. Then it will start Spotify app automatically. You can start playing any track and it will then mute the ads from Spotify music in the background.

Tips: Although EZBlocker is free in blocking Spotify ads, it sometimes may not work as stably as expected. For instance, it might accidentally mute a song instead of ad.

2. StopAd

As another free ad blocker for Spotify, StopAd is able to block ads in Spotify desktop app on Windows and Mac, as well as in Spotify web player. But it currently doesn't block audio advertisements in the Spotify mobile app yet.

Tutorial 1: How to Block Ads in Spotify Desktop App

Step 1. Download and install StopAd application on your computer.

Step 2. Open the program, navigate to 'Settings' in the bottom left corner of StopAd main window.

Step 3. Click 'Applications' > 'Search app'. Then enter Spotify.

Step 4. Check-mark it and then click 'Add to filtering'.

Tutorial 2: How to Block Ads in Spotify Web Player

Step 1. Install Web Assistant from StopAd.

Step 2. Launch the app, click on the green/grey hand at the bottom left corner, on the right from 'Ad Blocker' click on the green button and enable 'Ad Blocker'.

Step 3. Then you can add or remove any site like Spotify from the list so that it will block the ads for Spotify web player when you are using it.

Method 4. Block Ads in Spotify by Modifying Host File

Another popular way to block ads for Spotify is revising the host file on your Windows or Mac.

Step 1. If you are using Windows OS, go to C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts. For Mac users, you should open the host file in Terminal by typing vim /etc/hosts or sudo nano /etc/hosts.

Step 2. Open the host file and then paste this list at the bottom of the file. Save the edited file.

Step 3. Launch Spotify and start playing the track or playlist with no ads.

Conclusion & Suggestion

All those 4 methods work great in helping you remove ads from Spotify music. If you don't mind paying extra money, upgrading to Premium or buying TunesKit Spotify Music Downloader is highly recommended as you are able to enjoy the extreme high quality of the Spotify music without ads. But if you prefer to free solutions, the EZBlocker and StopAd could be better options.

Or do you have any other app or software that could block Spotify ads efficiently? Why not share it in comments here?

Matt Smith is an amateur writer engaged in Tuneskit in 2013. He is a movie lover who write a lot of movie reviews for many websites and blogs.

Although the default setting for your Mac’s firewall should be adequate for most people, you may want to configure your firewall to block additional Internet features for added security. For example, most people will likely need to access e-mail and web pages, but if you never transfer files by using FTP (short for File Transfer Protocol), you can safely block this service.

Don’t configure your firewall unless you’re sure that you know what you’re doing. Otherwise, you may weaken the firewall or lock programs from accessing the Internet and not know how to repair those problems.

To configure your Mac’s firewall, follow these steps:

1. Choose Command→System Preferences and then click the Security & Privacy icon.

   If the lock icon in the lower-left corner of the preferences window is locked, you must unlock it to make changes to your Mac’s user account details. Click the lock icon, type your password in the dialog that appears, and then press Return to unlock your Mac’s user account details.

2. Click the Firewall tab.

   The Firewall preferences pane appears.

3. Click the Turn On Firewall button to turn on your Mac’s firewall (if it isn’t already turned on).

4. Click the Firewall Options button to display the firewall’s custom settings, as shown in this figure.

   The dialog that appears offers three check boxes.

   In the center list box, you may see one or more sharing services you turned on by using the Sharing preferences pane Command→System Preferences→Sharing).

5. Select (or deselect) the following check boxes:

   • Block All Incoming Connections: Allows only essential communications for basic Internet and Mail access; also blocks sharing services, such as iTunes music sharing or Messages screen sharing. When you select this option, any services or applications listed in the pane disappear, replaced with a static warning that indicates all sharing services are being blocked.

   • Automatically Allow Signed Software to Receive Incoming Connections: Allows typical commercial applications such as Microsoft Word to check for software updates and Safari to access the web.

   • Enable Stealth Mode: Makes the firewall refuse to respond to any outside attempts to contact it and gather information based on its responses.

6. Continue to Step 8 if you want to make additional adjustments to your Mac’s firewall feature; otherwise, skip to Step 13.

7. (Optional) Click the Add (+) button to add applications that you want to allow or block from communicating over the Internet.

   A dialog appears, listing the contents of the Applications folder.

8. Click a program that you want to allow to access the Internet, such as Dropbox or Skype.

9. Click Add.

   Your chosen program appears under the Applications category.

10. (Optional) Click the pop-up button to the right of an application in the applications list and choose Allow Incoming Communications or Block Incoming Communications.

11. (Optional) To remove a program from the applications list, click the program name to select it and click the Delete (–) button below the program list.

12. Click OK.

Beginning with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, your Mac’s security was enhanced with two features:

• Advanced Space Layout Randomization (ASLR): Makes your applications more resistant to malicious attacks

• Sandboxing: Limits the types of operations an application can do, thereby making it difficult for a threat to take advantage of an application and, consequently, affect the whole operating system. Think of it as strengthening a potential weak link.