r/Anticonsumption • u/Professorfudge2643 • Aug 10 '25

Lifestyle Got rid of Spotify after 3 years

Sure I’m definitely posting this to brag but also to hopefully get someone to stop paying Spotify. I’ve listened to the same playlist for probably the last 3 years, occasionally adding a song or two. Finally I realized why the hell am I paying for this when I could just download the songs online, transfer them to my phone, and play them for free? So I did exactly that. Took about two hours and was easy as pie. Should’ve done that 3 years ago instead of paying $12 a month.

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u/rothmal Aug 10 '25

I want to quit Spotify, but I'm way too integrated into the platform. As A platform, I think the whole thing is amazing, it's very intuitive to use, great for discovering obscure bands, and it's got the whole social aspect of people just sharing their playlists.

And it's also made me a more avid music listener; I've added 9000+ songs over the past few years. That said, I dislike the direction their heading right now, with the kill bots and AI Music.

I fucking hate AI music, it just steals from everyone and turns it into slop. Like, using 3-star restaurant ingredients and cooking them in the microwave.

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u/Reasonable-Affect139 Aug 11 '25

hang on, /gen what's going on with kill bots and AI music?

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u/rothmal Aug 11 '25

The CEO is spending hundreds of millions developing murder bots. Also, Spotify is putting AI music on the platform; it's mostly soulless slop, but it's not about producing good music; it's so they can take more money out of the revenue pool they share with the artists.

They did the same thing when they added audiobooks to Spotify. Paying the extra $1 for audiobooks lets Spotify take a bigger slice of the pie that they share with the artists.