Step 1) create an unnecessary problem
Step 2) solve said problem
Step 3) profit???
Go fuck yourselves Spotify
How did spotify create the problem of AI music becoming reality? They are basically a platform. I get disliking their business model (even if i don’t share that opinion) but spotify did not create AI music generation. This is factually wrong
They 100% allowed it, even if they didn’t create it
I’m willing to bet money that they did create it.
Spotify? the company that ran ICE ads?
Among other questionable decisions
So what happens if the artist is dead?
Freddie Mercury would find it difficult to maintain an active social nedia presence to prove he’s human, being rather indisposed at the present.
And in dark mmo world, soon there will be service to buy “Verified by Spotify” badge or account.
Wonder if this will work on the innumerable obvious covers of popular songs by no-name bands which get listed as being from the original artists. Probably not, which is why I stopped using Spotify even before so many of their other shitty moves.
I don’t even begin to trust Spotify to tell me which sponsored Spotify content is only algorithmically served to me by Spotify AI, not created with it.
I’ll never understand Spotify. If it’s such a pain in the ass why do people use it? Napster was big when I was in high school so if I find a song I like, I go download it. Sometimes it’s piracy. Sometimes it’s a legitimate purchase. Whichever is easiest.
Done. The end. It’s mine forever.
As far as discoverability goes it helps that there have been no new music releases in the past couple of decades that I care about.
Interested in seeing how this will be gamed
Too little too late
I don’t get the appeal of Spotify. Pay monthly for music? That’s crazy.
You get a much larger selection than by buying individual records, though.
It is amazing how everytime I check they dont have what I want. Yet you are correct, there is lot of options there.
I am genuinely curious what you were looking for that they didn’t have. I feel like my tastes are so benign because I have never had that issue.
I only check once in a while (even though I could use it freely), but first off I listen to a lot of live music so there is that, most is not there or freely traded anyway.
But I can think of a good example recently: I wanted to hear Burning Spear’s Mistress Music, with the track Fly me to the moon in particular. It is not there.
Not a huge artist, but also not unknown either: https://www.discogs.com/master/108163-Burning-Spear-Mistress-Music
It is in my music server now (somewhere I have the CD, but who knows where).
It seems to happen to me more often than not.
That’s fair. Most of what I listen to is very modern (within the last 2 decades or so). I could see those being difficult to find.
You really don’t get the appeal of paying for a service that provides a need? Really?
What need?
Do you think people have a need for music that is streamed but not saved from a large collection?
Need? No. But there are tons of streaming music out there and it isn’t gonna cost you a dime.
Oh so you are saying the service exists in another form and is able to fill a need people have? So therefore Spotify is just one solution to a problem many people have.
You are genuinely being disingenuous if you don’t see how some people could want to use Spotify over something like Soulseek or even something like YouTube Music.
I don’t even like Spotify, but I can see why some people might.
Yet another platform with meaningless badges
