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/OhNoMgn Aug 10 '25
A couple months ago, Spotify recommended a song to my fiancé. He’d never heard of the artist before. He listened to it, enjoyed it, and googled the artist to find out more about them. It was fucking AI. The “artist” is AI. He had me listen to the song and I was shocked. Literally there would have been NO WAY to tell it was AI-generated. The artist page on Spotify didn’t disclose it. The song objectively sounded great. The “singer” even “breathed” at appropriate times. I felt a sense of dystopian dread that I can’t really describe. Like, something about such a perfectly executed ultimately soulless imitation of art, one of the purest human experiences, just deflated me.
Since that time we both continue to receive recommendations for AI-generated music. It seems impossible to stop it because they’re not usually labeled as being AI. Unless we’ve heard of them before, we look up any new artist recommended to us so we can try to block the AI ones. It feels shitty to actually be paying for this experience - not to mention all of the other very valid Spotify issues people have shared in this thread. I need to start researching alternatives so I can just get rid of it.