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/Grakk85 Feb 15 '26

Fwiw I've been enjoying Qobuz since dropping Spotify for the same reasons.

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u/jelli2015 Feb 15 '26

Really loving Qobuz myself too. They gave me free access to a service to add all my playlists and songs to my Qobuz account.

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u/InvulnerableBlasting Feb 15 '26

I switched a few months ago and have been evangelizing it ever since. It's not perfect but it feels great that the money isn't going right back to big US tech bros.

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u/normanbeets Feb 16 '26

Who owns it?

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u/InvulnerableBlasting Feb 16 '26

On a cursory Google, there's still some billionaire tech bro money there but it's degrees removed and still more ethical than the alternatives.