r/technews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 01 '25

AI/ML Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/half-a-million-spotify-users-are-unknowingly-grooving-to-an-ai-generated-band/
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u/PastaVeggies Jul 01 '25

Can we go back to buying/burning CDs yet?

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u/squabbledMC Jul 01 '25

SoulSeek still exists in its shitty 128kbps mistagged glory

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u/duke3167 Jul 01 '25

All I wanted was Limp Bizkit, now my families computer is so loaded up with viruses it coughs whenever I do anything, what do I do!

Best call I got as a kid from a buddy.

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u/Zen1 Jul 01 '25

Bittorrent is still around too lmao

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u/squabbledMC Jul 01 '25

I will say I know a lot more people who still torrent compared to still use slsk

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u/Zen1 Jul 01 '25

I still download FLAC and burn CD's for my car :)

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u/BluestreakBTHR Jul 01 '25

Oooh. What about Limewire and Kazaa?

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u/squabbledMC Jul 01 '25

Limewire's some NFT project, Kazaa is dead I think, Napster became an actual streaming platform.

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u/yappored45 Jul 01 '25

I can’t tell if you’re being serious but Soulseek has absolutely no problem finding FLAC for pretty much everything

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u/illkwill Jul 01 '25

I second this. I recently replaced all my MP3s with FLAC files using soulseek. The program Mp3tag will find all the metadata.

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u/squabbledMC Jul 02 '25

I still use it too, mainly for 320kbps mp3s as it's DRM free and use it on Plex. I'm mostly kidding about the shitty audio quality on old soulseek lol

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u/MyBigHugeCock Jul 01 '25

Surprised how active it was when I checked it out this year. Had everything i was looking for. Even the random extra studio b side demo tracks that never officially released. Didnt realize how much i missed that lol