Step 1) create an unnecessary problem
Step 2) solve said problem
Step 3) profit???
Go fuck yourselves Spotify
How did spotify create the problem of AI music becoming reality? They are basically a platform. I get disliking their business model (even if i don’t share that opinion) but spotify did not create AI music generation. This is factually wrong
They 100% allowed it, even if they didn’t create it
I’m willing to bet money that they did create it.
Google for ‘perfect fit content’. Spotify was and potentially still is aggressively pushing AI content in some of their curated playlists because it’s cheaper for them to play it
Or just don’t use Spotify
Hell yeah
Spotify? the company that ran ICE ads?
Among other questionable decisions
Picked up a dedicated audio device recently (with another few on the way!), and it feels nice to curate my own offline, add-free, algorithm-free listening experience. Having music myself his been half the fun of this, I won’t be using any streaming app going forward.
It is also super adorable:
Oh man, wait until you’re camping craigslist ads for used DAPs (Digital audio player, fancy speak for music player)… I got my DX180 for cheap there, then picked up some grados. Decent headphones and a good audio chip is some magic shit.
How do you discover new artists? That is the main thing keeping me from doing this.
Listen to the radio, read music news or listen to podcasts if you prefer, go to local music venues
Any particular news sites you like or just a general app with music categories selected?
I just the mainstream news like Rolling Stone or Billboard, I do have Readly subscription which has access to less mainstream magazines
KEXP, Audiotree, Tiny Desk and more
Plus the bands that open for the bands I like. Even if I don’t go to the concert, I look up who’s opening it.
Thanks. I looked at a few of these. I think I have seen tiny desk before a long time ago. And I already found a new thing I like :)
I’ve never really thought about looking up the openers for concerts that I don’t go to. Great idea.
Can you sync the music to it wirelessly?
No! Just via a USB cable.
I just got another one delivered yesterday which has a slot for an SD card, though. But tbh this is the benefit to me, it forces me to be intentional with what I load on.
Wtf?? They made tons of the AI slop on their themselves!
It’s virtue signaling
The two things are not in contradiction. Identifying human-generated content is essential to AI too. if you feed AI slop back to AI, their output deteriorates quickly. Not saying that it’s the primary purpose of this new feature, but this is making it easier for AI to find human-generated music to train on.
And in dark mmo world, soon there will be service to buy “Verified by Spotify” badge or account.
So what happens if the artist is dead?
Freddie Mercury would find it difficult to maintain an active social nedia presence to prove he’s human, being rather indisposed at the present.
Spotify is such a shit company. I used to get paid (peanuts) on my artist account but they raised the threshold for getting payouts so now I get nothing.
Take your music down
Too little too late
I don’t even begin to trust Spotify to tell me which sponsored Spotify content is only algorithmically served to me by Spotify AI, not created with it.
I don’t get the appeal of Spotify. Pay monthly for music? That’s crazy.
You get a much larger selection than by buying individual records, though.
It is amazing how everytime I check they dont have what I want. Yet you are correct, there is lot of options there.
I am genuinely curious what you were looking for that they didn’t have. I feel like my tastes are so benign because I have never had that issue.
I only check once in a while (even though I could use it freely), but first off I listen to a lot of live music so there is that, most is not there or freely traded anyway.
But I can think of a good example recently: I wanted to hear Burning Spear’s Mistress Music, with the track Fly me to the moon in particular. It is not there.
Not a huge artist, but also not unknown either: https://www.discogs.com/master/108163-Burning-Spear-Mistress-Music
It is in my music server now (somewhere I have the CD, but who knows where).
It seems to happen to me more often than not.
That’s fair. Most of what I listen to is very modern (within the last 2 decades or so). I could see those being difficult to find.
You really don’t get the appeal of paying for a service that provides a need? Really?
What need?
Do you think people have a need for music that is streamed but not saved from a large collection?
Need? No. But there are tons of streaming music out there and it isn’t gonna cost you a dime.
Oh so you are saying the service exists in another form and is able to fill a need people have? So therefore Spotify is just one solution to a problem many people have.
You are genuinely being disingenuous if you don’t see how some people could want to use Spotify over something like Soulseek or even something like YouTube Music.
I don’t even like Spotify, but I can see why some people might.
And with Artist Profile Protection (currently in beta), artists now have greater control over what appears on their profile, which helps to ensure the music you see is coming from them.
From the Artist Profile Protection link:
Music has been landing on the wrong artist pages across streaming services, and the rise of easy-to-produce AI tracks has made the problem worse. That’s not the experience we want artists to have on Spotify, and that’s why we’ve made protecting artist identity a top priority for 2026. Today, we’re announcing a first-of-its-kind solution to a problem that’s affected streaming for years.
How the hell is that something that is only in beta in 2026 and not a standard feature? It’s currently optional, but they better automatically opt in verified “No AI” artists if the label is going to be worth anything. There should not be AI-generated songs from randos getting attached to a “No AI” artist.
Where’s my “No Autotune” label?
Interested in seeing how this will be gamed
I’ll never understand Spotify. If it’s such a pain in the ass why do people use it? Napster was big when I was in high school so if I find a song I like, I go download it. Sometimes it’s piracy. Sometimes it’s a legitimate purchase. Whichever is easiest.
Done. The end. It’s mine forever.
As far as discoverability goes it helps that there have been no new music releases in the past couple of decades that I care about.
In the same breath that Spotify uses to introduce Ai stuff they also introduce a prompt based Ai to create playlists. I wish there were more platforms with feature parity and that it were easier to transfer preferences and genre tastes to other platforms.
I’ve tried deezer briefly but it is just missing so many things that I like that Spotify has.