r/Music • u/ebradio • Jul 21 '25

music Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/
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u/Jack_Bartowski Jul 21 '25

Is there a better alternative for spotify? Ive been using it for years as it was an easy way to keep my music handy. I had used Pandora up until then. Im kinda OOL when it comes to this.

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u/thunderbird32 Jul 21 '25

Qobuz is my favorite. Pretty much everything I listened to on Spotify is on there, and the payout to the artists is supposedly quite a bit higher.

Bandcamp is even better, if you're willing to buy music outright.

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u/phosef_phostar Jul 21 '25

Qobuz has the highest payout of all streamers. Last I checked it was like 0.04$ (4 cents I guess).

Qobuz is missing some stuff still, if you like japanese city pop then artists like Anri are not there and some other big ones do not have all their albums available (yet).

But yes please switch from spotify, the audio objectively sucks in comparison to every other service, Ek is a prick, Joe Roegan is a prick, and now they do A.I scams too.

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u/thunderbird32 Jul 21 '25

Qobuz is missing some stuff still, if you like japanese city pop

The thing with city pop artists on Qobuz is that I like to buy the albums I like, and it seems like 99% of Japanese artists on there don't allow you to purchase, just stream. Let me buy Yasuha's Transit or Mariya Takeuchi's Variety! I want to give you money, why won't you let me

I ended up buying Sunshower on CD because I couldn't get that either (I don't think they even have that to stream). Last I checked Transit was super expensive on CD, but I think I saw it was getting a re-issue so that might not be true anymore.