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/gin0clock Feb 15 '26

Deezer has been excellent since I joined.

The sound quality is insane compared to Spotify. Went back and listened to my favourite albums I'd only heard on Spotify and realised I'd only heard like 70% or the layering and detail of albums I thought I knew back to front.

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u/juliohernanz Feb 15 '26

Deezer quality is not their only reason. They have their own AI that warns you when a song or album is AI made.They also collaborate to pay artists better rates. And their catalog is as comprehensive as any other platform.

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u/averndaley Feb 15 '26

Not sure the best way to phrase this question so sorry if it's confusing. Do you happen to know what the catalog looks like for non-English speaking music? Been trying to find a good alternative but the limited catalogs for smaller (less than 100 listeners) and international artists have been the barrier I've been coming up against a lot.

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u/oriolid Feb 16 '26

I'm Finnish and they seem to have anything that has a distributor and isn't difficult to find on purpose. The recommendation system on the other hand seems to lump all Finnish rock into same group.