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Verified by Spotify: New No AI badge— it appears for creators with steady listener activity, clean platform records, and real-world proof like live shows or merch drops (newsroom.spotify.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (14 children)

What's the best alternative? It's been a while since I used any of them. I checked Tidal recently and it looked like they have an AI slop problem too.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I haven't had it be an issue with Tidal. Tidal doesn't have a strong autoplay algorithm so it tends to nudge users toward more custom curated Playlists. It has a buggy app, make it difficult to block songs or artists, and no duplicate filter which is frustrating, but I don't agree that AI slop is a very big issue currently. They seem proactive in fighting it and have always been one of the most artist friendly services.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Download your own music and set up navidrome. For music discovery, go to shows and find out about bands from the scene.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I use Qobuz now, and they are great, with human-curated playlists and suggestions. So far, I love it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Hmm. Sadly not available in my country yet (and while I'm sure I could pull some shenanigans to subscribe with a foreign address, I'm going to assume that also means none of our local music labels will be covered, so that's a non starter.)

    I'll keep an eye on it. But in the meantime, I also gather it doesn't do podcasts - anyone have any recommendations on where I could be migrating podcasts, from Spotify? Non-US companies only (which for avoidance of doubt, absolutely definitely excludes Apple).

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    I listened to podcasts on Antennapod for years. It's open source and free, but there are many other podcast platforms. Used Pocket Cast before too, very good, licensed under MPL 2.0. Those services don't have Spotify exclusive, but have all others.

    Edit: corrected mistake about Pocket Cast.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Thanks! (And I should say, it was a genuine question :-)). I'll take a look at them; I don't listen to any Spotify exclusives (yay!), but there are one or two that I subscribe to their supporter schemes and at the moment I do that through Spotify. I guess that's my next task, work out if there's a way to subscribe directly and use something like Antennapod.

    New workers'-day-weekend project dropped...

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