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Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 113 points 2 months ago (15 children)

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

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    1. This is annoying, I agree. Join Qobuz Club and upvote suggestions to prioritise cleaning it up.

    2. Contact the acts management to pressure the label to release on Qobuz too. It should be in their interest.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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