It doesn't matter how good it is. It could be the absolute best possible music ever, both sensorially and technically, and it would still not matter !

Music is a human experience. Without an artist, there is nothing there. AI music can never be better than human music.

I would rather listen to an untalented toddler's first violin lesson on loop for an hour than to 30 seconds of AI slop.

We've learned that "bosses" will defend absolutely anything, of course he defends his own stupid decisions. Not even worth a quote, it goes without saying.

It's literally called AI slop by everyone, dipshit.

Stop subscribing NO MATTER WHAT. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ARE THE PROBLEM. Completely remove yourself completely from big tech... will to power... the dum dums do it. Will to power!!!! Quit now... take up masturbation. Go on a walk. Enjoy the silence but never ever subscribe evvveeeeeerrrrrr! No no no shhhhhhhhh... Be brave Be bold... Be a monk but don't be a chump. Computers are tools. You let them rip the hammer and the sickle right out of your hands. You are a baby that the billionare steals from. He is stealing your sucker because you are suckers. Some people are led to extremes like blowing up a federal building.... You can be extreme by telling them how it is and like a bull opting the fuck out. I go ape if you grape. Lay flat if their shit is wack

Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer. All of them are cheaper than Spotify. Just saying.

Support artists, buy music on Bandcamp (especially on Bandcamp Fridays when they pay them more of the overhead fees), or from the artists directly.

I am once again recommending:

• Tidal: mainstream streaming platform you may already be familiar with, if you're shy about engaging with lesser-known ones
• Quobuz: mainstream streaming and digital downloads
• Bandcamp: some mainstream but mostly indie streaming and digital downloads
• local concerts

To he fair, ai slop is better than Spotifys fash podcasts...

It is a terribly low bar, yes.

It is slop. Quit doing coke, my guy. That sounds like some wolf of wall street "got to get ahead of this" BS.

I bet it is from his point of view. Don’t have to pay the artists if they don’t exist.

So glad I left Spotify years ago. They will be a case study on how to destroy a brand, lose a leading market position, and eventually run the company into the ground

There is a new strategy I noticed recently. My wife was listening to an 80's "radio station" (autogenerated playlist) on YouTube Music and I noticed that some of the songs sounded a bit odd. It took me a bit but I figured out what these scammers are doing.

1. Use Abelton to separate the vocal stem from the original track.
2. Use ReVoice to change the vocals to an AI altered one that is almost identical to the original. ReVoice is a plugin that modifies "your" vocals instead of generating new vocals. The result is a vocal track who's artificialness is difficult to detect by most.
3. Replace the original vocal stem with the ReVoice one.
4. Upload it as a "cover" or "vocal cover".
5. Profit.

Please note that the song and the vocals remain exactly the same but the voice is just ever so slightly different. I have no idea how this is legal.

Last week, the platform announced a new feature in which premium users will be allowed to create their own, AI-generated remixes and song covers using music from participating artists.

Can’t understand why anyone would want that.

If you want more music, then listen to new stuff, doesn’t Spotify have like almost all music ever created?

Also, ironically piracy doesn’t have this problem, torrents might end up being the most reliable way to get non slop content.

Wasn't it not long ago that they were in the news because they had a spot of bother with people making AI music, and then using bots to run up the listen count for the royalties?

This hardly seems like it would fix the problem any.

I take exception to the claim that AI-generated music is popular. I guarantee you those stats are misleading. Just like if you believe that all of the "views" on X are real, well, I have a bridge in Manhattan to sell you.

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.

Another piece of shit platform i never had any interest in is in the news for wildly fucked up reasons.

Hmm.

I deleted my spotify, tried apple music 3 month trial. They ransom my playlists but I have screen shots of it all. Ended up collecting a folder of my music I had and new songs I like. Transfer it to my iphone with Tinyftp(just what I found, probably better choices.) to vlc, created my playlists again, without the ransom or subscriptions.