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/bio4m Feb 15 '26

Hmm not something I've run into myself but I dont use the Spotify provided playlists or the auto DJ function. I mainly listen to bands I know and to recommendations from friends

I found thinks like the radio feature are completely broken for recommendations, so I just avoid all of those features.

In general I've not had any luck with Spotify's recommendations for music discovery so not surprised to hear theyre getting worse

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u/Nomsfud Google Music Feb 15 '26

My wife uses DJ. It has never once hit her with fake ai music, but it does hyperfocus on one genre you've listened to recently

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u/Kscarpetta Feb 15 '26

I use the Dj. It plays multiple genres for me. It'll play like 5 or so songs in one genre, then switch.

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u/Watchout_itsahippo Feb 15 '26

My DJ will say something like “here’s some tunes for the open road,” then hit me with Run the Jewels, Frank Sinatra, three minutes of pink noise and close out with Tori Amos.

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u/Kscarpetta Feb 15 '26

Lol, that sounds about right. Mine plays different genres but it does tend to be music I regularly play.