Should release a tier without podcast and pay more the artists.
I don't want to finance $100MM to a crazy conspiracy theories dude who's also an antivaxxer while artists are just asking for royalties.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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Next time it will be like subscribe to Spotify Premium to see what song is playing right now!
switched to Tidal after the price hike. Has 99% of the artists I listen to
After the last price hike I gave up on my Spotify subscription.
ETA: I moved to Tidal. I was able to import all of my likes, and my playlists.
I moved to Apple Music. It’s gotten a ton better in terms of content and UX since launch and I got tired of Spotify pulling bullshit like this news, the ridiculous audiobook “feature” they charge all users for, price hikes, no standard lossless audio…
I considered trying Apple Music, but two of my kids use Android so I went with tidal so everyone could be on the family plan.
Not sure if it’s still this way, but apparently for a time the Apple Music Android app was getting features that the iOS version didn’t have for some reason, lol
I did not even know it was available on Android.
I've had Spotify for a while now and I had no idea such a feature even existed. If I ever want to know song lyrics, I just Google it. Would have never even thought to look for them in Spotify.
Having them in the app has the advantage that they can be synchronized with the song that is playing.
They've started adding AI music to the catalog by themselves via fake accounts, resulting in them keeping 100% of the revenue, as there's no artist they need to pay any longer. Now they can move away from paid lyrics, to preserve some of their public image.
That's interesting! I hadn't heard of it. Can you provide a source for that?
Its unconfirmed that Spotify is doing this, but it makes the most sense. Why else would spotify curated playlists be full of ai slop?
Drew Gooden and Gabi Belle on youtube have both recently put out videos detailing how ai is ruining the internet and they both bring up this spotify controversy.
Well, for starters the word of some random YouTubers is not proof, not even remotely. And second, it doesn't make sense as you said it does. I don't know if you've heard the stage at which AI music is right now, but let me tell you it's not good, let alone capable of passing as human-made music. So you are, in fact, spreading bullshit.
not good, let alone capable of passing as human-made music
I disagree. AI music is shockingly good at sounding like real music. Just a couple months ago a popular producer sampled an ai generated song without knowing it.
But soon after, it was revealed that the singer from the “BBL Drizzy” beat didn’t exist — the voice was AI-generated, as was the song itself. The vocals, melody and instrumental of the sample were generated by Udio, an AI music startup founded by former Google Deep Mind engineers. Though Metro was not aware of the source of the track when he used it, his tongue-in-cheek diss became the first notable use case of AI-generated sampling, proving the potential for AI to impact music production. (A representative for Metro Boomin did not respond to *Billboard’s *request for comment).
In that same article you linked it later says King Willonius, the comedian who produced it, literally wrote the lyrics himself . He literally said (and quoted in the article) 'I think it’s a misconception that people think AI wrote ‘BBL Drizzy'. Then it goes on to talk about how AI may be used for sampling, rather than to create new songs, but spends a couple of paragraphs talking about how it's complicated because of copyright law. And in the end, the song, BBL Drizzy, got pulled from Spotify because AI was used in its production. That directly contradicts OP first comment. I do agree with you that AI is better than I first thought at music, but it's far from perfect. But in any case, thinking that Spotify right now is secretly implanting AI songs is still bonkers (and without proof besides some random YouTube video).
Well the songs that the YouTube videos mention are all instrumental so the lyrics aren’t necessary.
Why else would spotify curated playlists be full of ai slop?
Are they?