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I cancelled them after well over a decade. fuck spotify.
Me too. I turned to Qobuz. Not available in many countries unfortunately.
*I started my payed account recently, but have been gathering songs for a decade.
I wonder what’s the stance of Apple Music
Well, I'm getting cooked and AI'd. Scratch this.
~~According to my browser they are corpo pigs, but I did expect that from Apple:
Yes, Apple Music has embraced AI-generated music and is expected to introduce features that allow for the creation of custom playlists and music based on user preferences. This includes tools that can generate music and artwork tailored to individual users' prompts or moods. Sources: Apple and soundraw.io~~
Here too. Went to Tidal (which is problematic in its own way), but it's not using AI and funding genocide, and it pays more to artists, so...🤷♂️
TBF, it's more that Spotify allows 3rd party to add to artist pages without artist consent than any ai stuff. It was happening before ai
I would be in serious trouble if i let my brother run a meth lab out of my storage unit outside of town. If Spotify is allowing people to post that content, they should be held liable.
Slippery slope with this one. At least in the US. It's known as the safe harbor law, and without it indie sites like Lemmy instances, Peertube, other ActivityPub software and a whole slew of other sites just wouldnt be able to exist due to the sheer amount of corporate bullying that could happen.
I am NOT saying that Spotify should not see public backlash, nor am I saying that Spotify should be allowing this to happen. The analogy that you have provided though would imply that all websites should be responsible for their users actions. That would allow people to completely bankrupt any website by uploading a bunch of Disney movies.
There should be some sort of regulation or safeguard in place. I do agree with that.
Spotify is fairly tight about who they allow to upload music. Spotify doesn't act like an open forum, it is a controlled market where they act as a middleman between the listener and the rights holder of the media. A party you have a commercial contract with is using your resources for financial gain.
The analogy that you have provided though would imply that all websites should be responsible for their users actions. That would allow people to completely bankrupt any website by uploading a bunch of Disney movies.
This is already true, though. Why do you think you can't just hop on YouTube and access pirated Disney movies right now? Because YouTube doesn't want to be bankrupted, so they actively disallow it and take them down.
YouTube is not responsible for their users actions. If the uploader decides to appeal the takedown, the uploader goes to court not YouTube.
In the analogy, what you've described would be the equivalent of the person finding out their brother was running a meth lab and kicking them out without consulting law enforcement.
If law enforcement found the methlab, the person and their brother would be held liable. If Disney found The Lion King on YouTube, the uploaded is held liable. Making YouTube (or any website) legally liable for their uploaders content would put a lot of websites in jeopardy. Safe harbor provisions are the entire reason YouTube still exists today, as Viacom tried to take them down back in 2009, but youtube was able to prove they had no action to know or stop the uploaders from uploading Viacom's content. Shortly after that case is when they introduced the ContentID system and Google gobbled them up.
You have thousands of people moving things in and out of your storage and you're prepared to audit all of it for drug paraphernalia?
They seem to have 0 control over the artist pages.
I see unauthorized songs on artist pages constantly.
I've been considering cancelling my Spotify account for a bit, and this has pushed me off the fence! Good riddance to active manufacturers of bad rubbish
Do you even know who that is?
Foley? Not a clue
But allowing AI slop to be falsely attributed to a dead artist is kinda a no-go for me
I mean, what do you expect them to do? how are they supposed to get permission if they're dead?
/s
Scumbags.
Youtube music is just as bad.
Are they "publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels."?
Navidrome is the way but does that solve the problem?
I still use YouTube music because it doesn't have DRM and I just can't find any other service as convenient as yt music. I use the ReVanced version of its client, though I could also use 3rd party ones.
Problem is every time I hear a new artist, I have to stop what I am doing to research and see if they are real or if I should 👎🏻 them. And you have to do it for each of their songs!
I'm the kind of person who listens to the same album tens of times. Especially so when it comes to Three Days Grace.
I love three days grace. The Mountain is one of my favourite songs. It keeps me going.
I really like the Human album in its entirety, and some songs from Outsider are also great. One-X is epic too.... it's hard to pick a favourite one @w@
In YouTube music? I have never had this happen in the many years I've used it. I also tried searching for anything related and came up with nothing. Do you have any kind of source?
I'm glad I left them
Me too! I originally stopped because the CEO is a major bastard and I didn't think my premium money was going to the artists I loved like it should, and crap like this just solidifies my choice
Same here. I tried a few services out and eventually landed on Qobuz.
I personally just direct download my music. Im doing it in an inefficient manner but Im having a lot of fun researching artists and discovering new songs I might've missed.
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