Blibly comments on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Pfff, too late spotify. I've already switched to one of your competitors. Allowing AI "artists" at all is unacceptable. No sale.

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Which competitor doesn't allow them?

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bandcamp

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/

And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you'd have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, but Bandcamp isn't an alternative to Spotify.

It's an alternative to streaming.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 4 months ago

Sounds like it's still an alternative!

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don't (totally possible lol)

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[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Qobuz for a few months and it's pretty good. They had a rough bug a couple of weeks ago where some songs would stop playing and skip to the next one, but it seems to be resolved.

If you go into settings, you can hook it to last.fm and get lots of cool listening stats.

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Qobuz still had a lot of music slop 2 months ago. They promised to clean that up but I'm not sure if they really did it.

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[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago*

I haven't really encountered it, but I generally stick to my daily/weekly Q and saved playlists. At least they're aiming to clean it up. Spotify is adding a "verified" flag on non-slop.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I get this when trying to setup an account on that site?

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

Qobuz is probably the one streaming service I would pay for if they sorted out the huge gaps in their available library.

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

not exactly a competitor since it’s a music marketplace, not a streaming service, but bandcamp does not allow ai-generated music

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

Qobuz is BOTH a music store and a streaming service.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, nice try. I still block Spotify on all my devices.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

How was the switching process?

I've a family account that's fully utilised so if I move I have to drag everyone with me.

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[–] endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org 1 point 4 months ago

allowing Palantir and supporting ice was my cutoff... I had premium for years...

worse was how suddenly my playlists I listened to often, the songs started sounding different/wrong... turns out they were silent swapping them for AI cover versions...

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