AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? Remember King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard getting replaced by an AI impersonator after leaving the platform? Spotify claimed it was cleaning up AI slop…
I only buy music from Bandcamp, as well as some bigger releases from Qobuz.
Spotify is simply awful, and I’m not very happy with Apple Music either which feels almost like abandonware. Time to go back to having a real music library I own, which I’ve been building up incrementally for a year now.
Good on Bandcamp! This is absolutely the right stance. 👏
I’m entirely an MP3 person ever since I first built up my music hoard 27 years ago. I also get the tracks I want where they don’t exist or AI-bastardized on Spotify.