A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    21 hours ago

    A lot of it probably.

    They have a breakdown of the data on their blog. If you scroll down to album releases by date, you can see a very sharp uptick in releases, with around ~2 million albums in 2019 to ~11 million albums in 2024.

    They even make a comment on it likely being inflated by AI:

    If we group albums by release year, we see that more and more new music is added to Spotify, a lot of it likely automatically generated: […] The amount of procedurally and AI generated content makes it hard to find what is actually valuable.

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      You should watch this video:

      The dark side of Spotify from Slightly Sociable.

      It’s about short AI music created for phone farms to steal royalties away from real artists. It’s a whole business model and Spotify encourages this malicious practice as all those phones use premium to earn money faster, and 33% of that money goes to Spotify. Plus they do other illegal stuff like promote music from stake holder companies over other music.

        • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          What’s even more depressing is that there isn’t a proper alternative. Many music streaming services have their own flaws. A friend of mine recommended Deezer, as it has really high quality streams but that one is owned by a Russian oligarch.

          Artists are paid the most with Apple music but Apple is a shit company as well. Streaming is all fucked, same with movies / shows.

          If you want to support the artists, buy their music on Bandcamp. Musicians are having it hard, they need our support. They deserve our money. It’s the pirate code: pirate from the mega corps and billionaires, support the little guys.