Spotify-Ad-Blocker | EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows

Spotify-Ad-Blocker is a C# library. Spotify-Ad-Blocker has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

The current version of EZBlocker hooks Spotify in three ways: window titles, audio sessions, and a reverse listener. The window title is used to grab the name of the currently playing song/artist/advertisement. EZBlocker also uses the window title to grab the Spotify process handle. Using lower level COM interfaces, EZBlocker is able to both find and extract information from Spotify’s audio session. Firstly, if the Spotify window is hidden (in the tray), its window title cannot be used locate the correct Spotify process handle. In this case, EZBlocker falls back to searching through the audio sessions to find the correct process. Secondly, the audio session is a somewhat reliable way to detect whether or not a song/advertisement is playing regardless of whether or not the Spotify window is hidden. It can be inaccurate at times, eg. when a song has a 3 second gap of no sound, but can automatically recover. I’ve historically tried to avoid modifying the Spotify application, but since the shutdown of its unofficial local API (in mid July 2018), there was no reliable way to detect if an advertisement was playing. Spotify is built with the Chromium Embedded Framework, which means many of its components are written in HTML/JS. EZBlocker patches one of them to attach a web worker that sends a signal to a local listener when an advertisement is playing. More data could probably be extracted through the web worker, but I haven’t had time to explore.