I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like…

Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven’t heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it’s old school urban rap, the next it’s kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.

I never know what I’ll be in the mood for but I’ll find a thread with a song I don’t know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.

This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI… damnit!

  • WFH@lemmy.zip
    142·
    4 hours ago

    Are you using Spotify ?

    Because they are mainly known for 2 things:

    • they are nazi cunts who platform nazi cunts and play ads for nazi cunts
    • they flood their library with slop as a way to funnel money to themselves rather than to legitimate artists.

    I’m not aware of a streaming service completely free of slop, but I know some like Qobuz are actively detecting and removing it.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Bamdcamp took a stand against blatant slop but will allow artists to use some generative methods in their music.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I’m not, I’m using YouTube music which isn’t much better. I’m still looking for another platform to use but so far I need multiple to get all the music I like in one place.

      Though I’ve considered buying CDs again and ripping them for local storage…

      • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Same boat here. YouTube music and AI songs being more common. For right now if I hear someone new I check to see if they had an album before 2025… This method won’t be viable for much longer.