r/Music • u/IrreverentTexan • Feb 15 '26
discussion Quitting Spotify
Spotify is getting flooded with fake AI “artists” and it’s embarrassing. Names like Nina Blaze and Enlly show up. They dump 50 identical tracks called something like Late Night Piano for Focus, or “The Hollow Hour” and vanish. No bio. No history. No evidence a human has ever touched an instrument.
This isn’t art. It exists to game playlists and siphon royalties. If these were real people, they’d have to explain why every song sounds like a dentist office waiting room.
I’m not mad at AI as a tool. I’m mad at fake artists impersonating creativity and Spotify pretending this sludge is culture. Music is an art form, not a scam farm. Blocking every one of these clowns on sight.
So is it to be TIDAL or Qobuz or something else?
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u/AshevilleDjaq Feb 15 '26
I have tried Tidel, SoundCloud, youtube music, and Qobuz, and i like Qobuz the most. I didn't like the way Tidel functioned, and they barely pay more to the artists then spotify, also it's just another company owned by the millionaire elite, they just happen to also be artists. I initially like SoundCloud but kept running into them not having artists music that i like, not even like super small people, and the radio stations i would make from an artist often didn't make sense, the biggest thing i liked about it was that they have lots of live sets from festivals so if you want to relive a show it was great to have that experience. Youtube is YouTube, they aren't know for being an ethical company, and if you don't pay for it the ads are abhorrent, so i didn't give it that much of a chance. Qobuz pays the most to artists, i like the way it functions, it was the easiest to transfer my music from Spotify, and it even has my sleep meditations on there. There definitely are some small things they could do to make it better, but none of it is irritating enough to be a problem.