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‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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As a hoarder, I spend more time listening to new music than not, and Spotify' features and personalized discovery algorithms help tremendously with that.
These days more and more AI songs are creeping into my Spotify and I notice them. That has caused me to be suspicious of every song I hear enough that even when I find a good real song, the enjoyment is undercut by that constant underlying feeling of "this could be AI" even though I know it isn't.
I'm absolutely livid and disgusted at Spotify for making me feel that way. Discovery was the one thing keeping me on that wretched platform. I imagine I'll be slowly migrating to a self-hosted solution. I just really wish foss had more private and open personalized discovery features (or any at all for that matter, and not just for music).
yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Picard, jellyfin, musicolet
Seconding Picard. MusicBrainz is the only part of my little ecosystem where I stick my neck out and constantly broadcast all my listening activity. The suggestions are awesome.
Spotify's personalized stations kept me hooked for years but it was surprising how fast I got used to creating stations based on individual songs or artists in Apple Music, and eventually I do think I'm go back to having a music collection again, but it's going to take time out of my week to collect and organize music again... in my 40s time is no easy feat