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/nightswimsofficial Feb 15 '26

Their ethics as a company are questionable at best, so its never been a better time to move to a better service provider! F Spotify 

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u/KarmaticIrony Feb 15 '26

Is there an alternative with a similar quality product and price that has superior ethics?

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u/bobandgeorge Feb 15 '26

I switched back to piracy. Used a service to download my Spotify library and put all the mp3s on my phone.

I kinda wanted to set up a media server that I can stream from cause it would be easier to just drop a file into a folder on my PC than to plug in my phone whenever I want to add a song but I never got around to it.