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!
I personally would never listen to a song recommended by a machine. Gave pandora a real good shot but it always seems to recommend things I hate, along with Spotify, Apple, etc. so I just let the music find me. You are very lucky it has worked for you! I’ll bet there is a service out there for you that works. I’m also super not picky when it comes to music- don’t care what the lyrics are, as long as it’s a bop I’ll listen to it. In that regard, I would definitely listen to an AI song if I couldn’t tell. Never heard one like that but is the fact that it’s ai the only hangup? I refuse ai at work, web search, almost every aspect of my life, but I don’t think I would care if music was ai.
It’s my biggest hangup. As someone who thinks of themselves as an artist I hate thinking I’m helping crowd out artists and reward music plays from people who didn’t go through the effort to master music like that.
Just like I’ve never been able to pirate media (I’m old enough to have been around when MP3s killed music stores). I want the artist to be rewarded.
Maybe I’m being silly? But it’s important to me.
Nah I get that, dude! I guess I need to think about it more cuz I’m sure eventually I’ll have that moral conundrum. I’ll keep an eye out on my Apple Music, I think they stated they would have a watermark of some sort. If you’re using Spotify, definitely ditch that, Apple is so much more respectful to artists and the interface isn’t trash.
Look at that, Apple music has an android app. Silly me for not knowing. I’m gonna check my library against their stuff. It’s a provider I hadn’t considered!
Thank you.