I don't even want that garbage for free.

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

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

Spotify pays real musicians pennies. Anyone who appreciates music should ditch them.

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.

I cancelled specifically because of ai slop, and forced podcast garbage.

Already left Spotify after they gave millions to that traitor pedo supporter rogan

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

No shit with the company that has a CEO that calls music ~"content without production costs". Soulless middleman profiteering ghouls.

I'm glad I got rid of that shit years ago

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.

Spotify would be wrong.

Moving to Tidal as we speak. Enough is enough.

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.

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.

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.

spotify execs bet on land war in asia

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.

https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube let's you use playlists while listening for free without ads.

These execs are saying the quiet part out loud. Duping customers is the name of the game now.

I would not consume ai trash if they paid me.

I brought this up with my cousin, who hates AI as much as I do. He says that he can't switch, because he has nearly 10 years of music on the platform.

The CEO may not be wrong in this case.

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.

Thank goodness I decided to get out of this trap.

Maybe it's my frame of mind (I'm not "discovering" new music, I stopped paying for streaming when I realized 99% of what I was listening to was recorded in the last millennium) but I can't fathom how this would "turn free users to paid."

I saw this on another thread but if you really want to help musicians directly, I'd recommend www.paymusicians.app.

I am not sponsored by them, and I have no ties to the company, but I (artist name Thassodar) signed up for them last week and just received like $.50 this morning.

May sound insignificant but, in the last 6 years I've been streaming, it's the fastest turnaround for any payout I've signed up for. And to get that fifty cents from Spotify I'd probably need several hundred plays. Consider them to support artists, and recommend artists you know sign up. I hope it's a better way to get money directly to the creator.