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Spotify boss defends move to AI music, saying it is better than ‘slop’
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Left Spotify years ago after they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on anti vax podcasters. Tidal was fine for me, but then I kept coming across uploaded ai crap masquerading as legit established bands. So now on qobuz, but I miss the tailored to me recommendations. I'm considering just moving to a completely non-streaming solution - but I'm not tech savvy enough to know how to start.
Not sure how tech savvy you are but you could always buy music CDs. They are still a thing. You can also buy some pretty premium MP3 players if you know how to burn music CDs. Vinyl is also fun to collect. Browsing in a CD / vinyl shop is a great way to spend an afternoon
My tailored recommendations didn't come to me until like a week later but they were kindof shit. And their library is also shit.
The past year I was using Spotube with the ListenBrainz recommendation engine (want to avoid proprietary services), but it hasn't been updated in months and today it finally shit the bed. So now back to looking for alternatives. I came across some self-hosted ListenBrainz integrations with torrent/soulseek but they're way more complex than Spotube and I can't set that up right now for various reasons.
I havnt pirated since 2008, and given I dont own a proper computer even, Ive taken to ripping audio files (songs) from newpipe into a folder on my device. I wish I figured this out years ago.
My household has also been rebuilding our CD collections over the last year which helps.