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Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (www.bbc.com)
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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 44 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Pfff, too late spotify. I've already switched to one of your competitors. Allowing AI "artists" at all is unacceptable. No sale.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

How was the switching process?

I've a family account that's fully utilised so if I move I have to drag everyone with me.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, nice try. I still block Spotify on all my devices.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Which competitor doesn't allow them?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bandcamp

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/

And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you'd have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Bandcamp isn't an alternative to Spotify.

It's an alternative to streaming.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 15 hours ago

Sounds like it's still an alternative!

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I'm using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don't (totally possible lol)

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Qobuz is probably the one streaming service I would pay for if they sorted out the huge gaps in their available library.

[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using Qobuz for a few months and it's pretty good. They had a rough bug a couple of weeks ago where some songs would stop playing and skip to the next one, but it seems to be resolved.

If you go into settings, you can hook it to last.fm and get lots of cool listening stats.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Qobuz still had a lot of music slop 2 months ago. They promised to clean that up but I'm not sure if they really did it.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I get this when trying to setup an account on that site?

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

not exactly a competitor since it’s a music marketplace, not a streaming service, but bandcamp does not allow ai-generated music

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Qobuz is BOTH a music store and a streaming service.