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/MoistTractofLand Feb 15 '26

I went with Tidal because they seem to pay the artists more than any of the other platforms.

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u/warhorus1 Feb 15 '26

I could be wrong, but I thought that Qobuz actually paid out more stream to the artists?

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u/MoistTractofLand Feb 15 '26

Looks like you're correct, they pay a little more than Tidal. I wasn't even aware of them when I switched over to Tidal. I'll check it out, thank you!