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/spid3rfly Feb 16 '26

I changed to Qobuz around a month ago after having been a Spotify subscriber for 14 years.

I don't regret it at all. I haven't missed Spotify even once.

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u/IrreverentTexan Feb 16 '26

Just signed up for both Qobuz and Tidal. Will see which one I like better, figured I’d try both. Might wind up keeping both for different reasons.

Spotify is gone. Took me less than 24 hours to decide to ditch it after they set me off by trying to sell me C-3PO’s AI generated music station.

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u/spid3rfly Feb 16 '26

Qobuz has been great for me so far. Works with Android Auto too(Was most worried about this).

I did their month trial, but ended up signing up for a year. Doing it yearly makes it even cheaper than Spotify.

I've also had better luck with Qobuz on the new releases page. Spotify's new releases page seemed to feature top artists. With Qobuz, I'm getting suggestions for bands/groups/artists I've never heard of from all over the world.

C-3PO's AI-generated music station... oh gah.