I wont even pirate that...
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That Michael Smith dude got 5 years in prison for his AI music scheme.
Already left Spotify after they gave millions to that traitor pedo supporter rogan
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 😩
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No shit with the company that has a CEO that calls music ~"content without production costs". Soulless middleman profiteering ghouls.
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
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.
I've been using Qobuz for about a year and generally like it. There are a couple of things that are making me want to switch though. 1) Artists often have albums associated with them that don't belong. Check out the Australian band Jet as an example. 2) Some artists I like have albums on both Spotify and Tidal that they don't have on Qobuz for some reason
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This is annoying, I agree. Join Qobuz Club and upvote suggestions to prioritise cleaning it up.
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Contact the acts management to pressure the label to release on Qobuz too. It should be in their interest.
I am part of the club and upvote any comments I see about catalogue clean ups. I've also posted a few on my own, but haven't gotten any acknowledgement on them from the Qobuz team.
Edit: I know a lot of people have issues with AI, but this is a case where AI could scan their entire catalogue and provide a clean up list they would just have to confirm/deny and it would be way faster than their team going through it.
I have emailed the label to request the missing albums also be uploaded to Qobuz, but did not receive any response on that. I have also submitted the request through Qobuz for the albums to be added to and received the automated reply email, but who knows if anything will happen with that.
Yeah, me too. It's annoying how Qobuz encourage user feedback with a special app and then just go stone wall about it. There are several threads about common problems in their services and they don't give any response at all. I hope it gives some pressure anyway with the updoots for common annoyances that can no longer be ignored.
AI is overkill. All that is needed is matching acts and albums to one of the free or proprietary datasets online. Some API integration and maybe licensing and it's done. It's just a decision that somebody up the organisation needs to make that they don't for whatever reason.
Qobuz is great! I've been using it for over 2 years now.
Bandcamp FTW
I love bandcamp
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.
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Also today is Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp does not take fees on purchases today.
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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 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
Spotify pays real musicians pennies. Anyone who appreciates music should ditch them.
Moving to Tidal as we speak. Enough is enough.
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.
spotify execs bet on land war in asia
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
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Betcha I won't. I ain't paying for shit from that garbage app.
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.
I'm glad I got rid of that shit years ago
Yup. I haven't used Spotify in years. I see these constant headlines and articles about Spotify doing stupid shit over and over and over again and wonder why people keep using that pile of trash when there are numerous better alternatives.
I've talked with Spotify users about the alternatives and how they are better and linked them to playlist transfer services so they can jump ship in as little as 15 minutes and they still refuse to do it. They'd rather keep using Spotify and constantly bitching about how terrible it is. They have effectively Stockholm syndrome'd their userbase at this point.
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Spotify would be wrong.
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.
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.
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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’m a fan of Rick Beato’s YouTube channel. It’s funny watching him review the Spotify top 10 as someone who is genuinely open-minded and who appreciates all forms of music. He wants to find something to like, but often struggles because they mostly have the same cliche drum beat, are short vamps instead of songs, etc. We already had enough low-effort, human-generated slop without AI taking it to a whole new low.
I would not consume ai trash if they paid me.
I don't want AI music; however Spotify has made great playlist of recommended artist of music I like.
There platform also works correctly for listening on WiFi which Tidal did not.
I think they will learn quickly that people don't like AI generated music. If people do end up liking it, then I'm sad because so far Spotify recommendations is something I talked highly about in past years.
These execs are saying the quiet part out loud. Duping customers is the name of the game now.
I’ll be honest. I listen to a lot of ambient/EDM while working, and I probably wouldn’t even notice if they started slipping AI content in, and probably wouldn’t be curious enough of the time to look into it.
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