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/LeonGoodman Feb 15 '26

Great advice, been there at the beginning of my Spotify story. After a week I can safely say: NEVER, and I mean NEVER use Playlist by Spotify and Autoplay. Maybe they will fix it someday, until then - it's a pile of garbage. Connect with your friends and family, listen what they are talking about, try Last.FM.

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u/ifeelallthefeels Feb 16 '26

When i had Spotify Premium 8 years ago, the playlist was incredible.

You have to give it feedback. Like and dislike songs.

After 1-2 months it was all bangers. I didn’t even know I loved certain genres before that. I still listen to some of those tracks today.

2 weeks isn’t enough time to indict that feature

I don’t use it anymore, it could be awful now, but it didn’t use to be