I won’t even pay for Spotify. I’ve only bought one song since the advent of AI and it’s from an artist I trust not to use slop
They’re right, most people have shit music taste.
I have shit music taste, but only because I’m self aware enough to know I do.
You may be shrugging right now, going “well, I don’t have shit music taste.”
You do.
Betcha I won’t. I ain’t paying for shit from that garbage app.
It’s crap. I’ve listened to a little of it. Generic, predictable, and full of issues like “singers” rapping out 30 seconds of high volume lyrics without a single intake of breath. But it fits in with the general overall quality of available music on Spotify. A sea of boring and low-effort junk.
Spotify would be wrong.
lol I’m so glad I unsubbed back when they started letting ICEatzgruppen advertise on their platform. I paid for ad free, but simply knowing they were running ads for the all-American Stasi made me drop them like a hot potato.
spotify execs can suck my whole entire cock. finally unsubbed last year after the sub prices growing every year despite no fucking change to service. I’d rather fucking download all the music I want to listen to, which means your enshittified service is failing in its one goal. piracy is the way
It’s goal is wealth extraction and for this quarter and next it exceeds them.
Their a bunch of absolute yeasty cunts.
I don’t even want that garbage for free.
I wouldn’t even listen to it for money (unless it is a lot of money
Right now I‘m enjoying premium family for free but if they start shoving AI in my face I won‘t use it at all anymore. I‘m already very annoyed by their obviously (and I‘m pretty sure technically illegally) paid for „recommendations“ on the home page and their stupid audio book credit system. I already wouldn‘t pay for Spotify premium myself in it‘s current form.
I had been enjoying premium for about 6 years now without being charged, but they finally tried charging me the other day and, since the card I had on file is 3 years expired, I am back to having friggin’ ads 😩
I use revanced for mobile and SmartTube for TV. Works pretty good
I was looking into revanced for it, but it looks like it doesn’t work without ads since January. I’d just get MP3s but I don’t have the storage for that many songs even on my PC, let alone my phone where I usually listen to music.
how did you get free premium for 6 years?
Spotify pays real musicians pennies. Anyone who appreciates music should ditch them.
Music streaming companies with active anti-AI policies are: Qobuz, Tidal and Deezer
Bandcamp is always worth mentioning if you want to buy music directly
Also today is Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp does not take fees on purchases today.
Sadly for much of what I listen to outside of band camp none of those Services have what I want typically. It’s been a few years. Maybe I need to reassess it. But there is a reason I ended up on YouTube music. Just the breadth of the content. And the fact that you get regular YouTube ad free with it also isn’t a bad deal. That’s probably why I watch Mostly YouTube anymore these days.
But I found myself having to skip more and more past AI artist that pop up randomly in the queue. Something I wouldn’t mind not doing. If any of these other services actually catered to the niches that I enjoy. Which is very hit or miss unfortunately. Last time I checked even Pandora and Spotify didn’t have a lot of what I listen to.
Bandcamp rules. Not only can you buy music but many artists also sell merch, sheet music, art and more. It’s a great, one-stop-shop to support your favourite artists.
And if you keep a look out, Bandcamp regularly email about “Bandcamp Friday” which are defined Fridays where they waive their share of the sale meaning the artist gets the whole cut!
Today is a Bandcamp Friday!
Lots of artists also do special things for Bandcamp Friday, like put up signed vinyls for sale.
I have been enjoying Qobuz, since quitting Spotify a couple of years ago. Everything’s better quality, they have proper credits and PDF CD booklets, the classical music metadata is much better, it encourages you to listen more deliberately to music you choose, and I don’t feel dirty for funding scumbags.
Qobuz is great! I’ve been using it for over 2 years now.
Yeah I switched over to Tidal and I like it so far. The music quality is good and there’s just a simple toggle in settings to turn off anything to do with AI.
The recommendations aren’t as good as Spotify’s but I’d rather deal with that than a barrage of AI bullshit.
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube let’s you use playlists while listening for free without ads.
How are they all so incredibly out of touch?
I hope they “bet big” because they’ll lose this bet. Everyone can see it but the billionaires.
I cancelled specifically because of ai slop, and forced podcast garbage.
Some of those podcasts are hosted without the creators consent and even if they are asked to take them down, they put them back up after a while.
I specifically left because Spotify would not stop pushing drooling idiot Joe Rogan… and that is a podcast Spotify funds
same here
But … they just deleted 75 million AI slop songs …
https://tech.yahoo.com/audio/articles/spotify-deleted-75-million-ai-195459893.html
Guess they were just eliminating the competition.
Exactly… slop for me, not for thee
Not only that but they got data from all of that slop to see which slop got engagement and which did not. Now they can use that data to generate more convincing slop.
