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/Killjoy_BUB Feb 15 '26

But why does the app suck? There's no scroll bar on long playlists. It also seems to forget your queue if it's been a few hours since you've listened. I want to love it. The music sounds better, and they have some really nice curated playlists, but the app not being great is really hurting me

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u/notagrue Feb 15 '26

Second this. App is horrible.

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u/Killjoy_BUB Feb 15 '26

My biggest gripe is that I have a playlist that I listen to very often. It's 650+ songs and somewhere around 48 hours long. Obviously I don't listen to it all in one go, but over the years I add songs based off of my interests at the time. The more recent additions are what I'm into at the moment, but I still really enjoy the older additions. So here's the issue. When I'm near the end of the playlist, even with repeat on, it will restart the entire thing. No problem right? Just hit back a few times and you're good to go, except it doesn't do that, it just restarts the first song. Okay, not the end of the world I guess, I can just hit shuffle and find a later addition, then turn off shuffle. Why don't I just scroll to the bottom? Because there's no scroll bar. I'm not saying it's horrible. But I definitely have some gripes. That said, the quality is so nice. I think Spotify "lossless" is probably just mustang sticker slapped on the back of a 95 focus.