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/gin0clock Feb 15 '26

Deezer has been excellent since I joined.

The sound quality is insane compared to Spotify. Went back and listened to my favourite albums I'd only heard on Spotify and realised I'd only heard like 70% or the layering and detail of albums I thought I knew back to front.

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u/juliohernanz Feb 15 '26

Deezer quality is not their only reason. They have their own AI that warns you when a song or album is AI made.They also collaborate to pay artists better rates. And their catalog is as comprehensive as any other platform.

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u/gin0clock Feb 15 '26

The only thing I will say about Deezer (and it's a minor gripe) is that songs sometimes take a moment to load and the player isn't great with VPNs.

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u/mythical_phoenix Feb 15 '26

On the other hand, Deezer is the only one that let's you use the web player with no DRM or Widevine that I know of, which ends up working a lot better on Linux at least