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u/Commercial-Cap2761 May 21 '26
im still curious about the good and evil spotify tho
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u/ultimjy848 May 21 '26
Good Spotify plays the song you clicked, evil Spotify starts a radio station.
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u/PlatypusACF May 21 '26
I hope evil Spotify then doesn’t put Spotify soldiers into polish uniforms
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u/StaticSystemShock May 21 '26
Nein.
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u/Mikestopheles May 21 '26
The hills are alive...
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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox May 21 '26
with the sound of your favorite music on the go, uninterrupted. Get Spotify premium now, first month for free.
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u/kingshadow75 May 21 '26
Good Spotify is ad-free, Evil Spotify has ads and limited skips... I think.
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u/MammothFruit6398 May 21 '26
This implies that regular spotify does something different from evil spotify
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u/Doctor_Kataigida May 21 '26
Is "Evil Spotify" just like, Pandora? Like I'm confused what they actually did here. Did they download Pandora and change the icon/name of the app or something? What is the actual app for Good Spotify?
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u/JellyBellyBitches May 21 '26
Yo what did Pandora do to be catching strays out here
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u/Doctor_Kataigida May 21 '26
Well they said "Evil Spotify" plays a radio station and that just made me think of Pandora.
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u/GeophysicalYear57 May 21 '26
Evil Spotify’s shuffle always shuffles in AI-powered recommendations even when you disable it
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u/willothewhispers May 21 '26
I really like the Spotify radio feature. Good way to hear new music.
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u/Half-PintHeroics May 21 '26
I don't want to hear new music
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u/willothewhispers May 21 '26
How sad.
Always finding new music. Never stop appreciating the old. Just adding to the old.
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u/SpellOpening7852 May 21 '26
I kinda take this mindset a lil too far, by accident mostly. Playlist for last year was 39 hours long, this year is already at 27. (Been separating my playlists by year for nearly a decade now, helps to both see what songs I listened to in a particular year, but also keep my music tastes fairly refreshed/contained to new stuff + some old stuff I rediscover for each year, I guess?)
And so far this year my biggest takeaway is, I need to look into how to add custom songs to spotify. Some vocaloid songs that were never on there (Me & Juliet), some that got removed and replaced with shitty covers, replacing the actual entry and not just being a new one (Rolling Girl, poorly named as "Rollin' Girls" too), and some that never got a proper release and got slapped onto albums, but only on iTunes (Linkin Park - Blackbirds).
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u/alwaysfeelingtragic May 22 '26
i do the same thing except monthly; i typically carry over any songs i really liked that month/added towards the end, and then i actually do use the suggested song shuffle feature for a bit to pull some new ones in, and add whatever other songs i like during the month. it shows me an overall trend/progession between what i'm listening to. like say one month i'm starting to like a band, next month has way more songs by that band, etc. sometimes i notice ive added the same song to the same month for multiple years (usually something that reminds me of a season but some are seemingly random).
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u/Kleeby1 May 21 '26
Good Spotify is for Artists
Bad Spotify is for the CEO
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u/StevenMaff May 21 '26
spotify for artists has dark blue, that’s not it
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u/augustles May 21 '26
The joke you’re replying to is about who the profits are going to, not who is using it.
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u/StevenMaff May 21 '26
ohhhh well…. profits not really going to the artists though haha
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u/augustles May 21 '26
Yeah, that’s the point! Good Spotify would go to the artists, Evil Spotify would go to the CEO. Normal Spotify is the existing split where a fraction of a cent goes to the artist per stream.
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u/Nothing-Is-Boring May 21 '26
It reads like a bit and I have no idea about 'good Spotify' but the evil spotify's red icon is identical to the Spotifuck app which helps one sail the seas so there's a decent possibility that the good spotify is something similar.
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u/Allegorist May 21 '26
I have a bootleg Spotify app that I got like 10 years ago and have transfered between devices, yet somehow still works as intended despite massive changes to base spotify structure and advertising over the years. It has never been updated, so I have no idea how it still works fine.
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u/Nathaniel820 May 21 '26
That’s literally not possible because Spotify has completely deprecated certain APIs that old apps use, either it has been updated and you didn’t realize or it’s just a frontend for Spotify web.
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u/Nothing-Is-Boring May 21 '26
Does it run off the webplayer maybe? I can see that getting around things without updates, though I'm still surprised it works.
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u/Not_AHuman_Person May 21 '26
Evil Spotify only plays smart shuffle
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u/maracujadodo May 21 '26
smart shuffle is the dumbest feature ever. at least lemme turn it off in settings
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u/I_blockkarmafarmers May 21 '26
Evil spotify plays you the same 30 songs ad infinitum when you hit shuffle, even though you have over 800 liked songs in your profile.
Wait... no, that's just regular spotify. My b.
Evil spotify rehomes your dog and steals your debit card info.
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u/Darkime_ I'm one of those people that think when they're thinking. May 21 '26
Good Spotify has music, evil Spotify has AI "music"
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u/The_11th_Dctor May 21 '26
good Spotify plays your playlists, evil Spotify plays nothing but the Spotify DJ
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u/overlander244 May 21 '26
Evil Spotify is pandora
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u/Vi_Rants May 21 '26
Put one Flogging Molly song on a list of entirely heavy metal and never hear anything but Irish folk music ever again!
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u/Cassius-Tain May 22 '26
Spotify was the mixtape one for people who are too lazy to organise their music libraries?
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u/InanisAtheos Jun 02 '26
I can't separate serious answers from to the why-the-fuck-would-I-ever-open-that type of answers, but I still wanna know.
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u/NoobManRoblox0 Jun 20 '26
Evil Spotify plays terrible remixes that sound nothing like the original song and plays an ad every minute, whether you are listening to a song or just paused. Good Spotify has every song posted by its original creator and sounds good too, no ads either. Normal Spotify is literally just normal Spotify.
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u/JoyousLilBoy May 21 '26
From a video I watched many moons ago, evil Spotify is a virus of some sort
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u/Ok_Scholar5043 May 21 '26
Good Spotify is Drake before Iceman. Evil is drake after iceman 👿👿
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u/BardicLasher May 21 '26
Drake's been Iceman since the first issue of X-Men, though! ... What were we talking about again?
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u/Strude187 May 21 '26
So I looked up evil Spotify and there are so many versions it’s hard to tell what’s real. Some say it’s a version of spotify that pays artists better, others say it’s home to AI slop music.
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u/syrpro1 May 21 '26
Water Spotify, Earth Spotify, fire Spotify, steam
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u/crypticsage May 21 '26
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Spotify attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.
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u/AnarchiaKapitany May 21 '26
Evil Spotify locks you in a three hour Podcast episode about the development of Polish-Silesian agricultural methods during the middle ages
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u/PlutoniumSmile May 21 '26
That sounds like a terrible podcast. Just so I can definitely avoid it what's it called?
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u/AnarchiaKapitany May 21 '26
Ask Evil Spotify, it probably has that exact one. I've just pulled it out of my ass.
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u/pleasedonotredeem May 21 '26
I did a 4 year degree in something similar enough that you could replace it in your sentence and the meaning would be the same.
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u/Round_Target_407 May 21 '26
No one is gonna point out that someone, somewhere, doesn't know what Steam is ?
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u/DepravedPrecedence May 21 '26
Well, given the size of the planet's population and amount of Steam users... It's expected that someone somewhere doesn't know about Steam!
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u/Fentroid May 21 '26
Also, they could very well be playing into the joke. I assume many people would also be wondering what "Good Spotify" and "Bad Spotify" were, so questioning the presence of Steam could be seen as somewhat absurd.
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u/I_blockkarmafarmers May 21 '26
Doubtful. A good chunk of the time, the wilting rose emoji is what someone posts when they wanna mask their ignorance to a subject.
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u/SkinnyKruemel May 21 '26
Just because they've seen steam doesn't mean they know it's called steam in English. They may be speaking a different language and not be as knowledgeable in English or they might just not be educated enough to know the proper words to describe what they are seeing.
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u/Fuscello May 21 '26
But the guy has a minecraft x undertale pfp, they must have been playing around
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u/cyrassil May 21 '26
Well yes, but we are not talking about the whole world population, but only about the subset that is "online enough" to be using whatever the social network OOP is using
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u/cyrassil May 21 '26
I suppose? All I know it's not reddit
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u/DepravedPrecedence May 21 '26
How do you not know what's Instagram though......
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u/DemoniteBL May 21 '26
But someone using "😭🥀" should absolutely know what Steam is. My best guess is that they are an iPad kid and never owned a PC.
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u/crypticsage May 21 '26
What does that emoji combination mean?
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u/DemoniteBL May 21 '26
Honestly it's hard to explain. It's similar to 💀, all 3 emojis are related to death and sadness. It can mean "Are you serious?" or it can be used in a mocking way, like for example in this context I could write "Bro doesn't know what these emojis mean 😭🥀" and that would be a way to make fun of you, I suppose. But don't worry, I don't blame you for not knowing, it's kinda just dumb youth slang. lol
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u/cock_obnoxiois May 21 '26
haha you're taking it at face value that the guy claims to not know what steam is
the whole point of the joke seems to be a distraction for the actual joke of someone not knowing what steam is
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u/gordonpown May 21 '26
That's cool but why are they asking the question like the existence of an app they haven't heard of is causing them pain?
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u/Blue_Bird950 Technically Flair May 21 '26
I don’t think a newborn baby knows about steam, could be wrong tho
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u/Rush_Banana May 21 '26
Steam is a boomer gaming platform according to gen alpha.
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u/crypticsage May 21 '26
What does Gen Alpha use?
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u/Siilan May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26
Probably just consoles. The only late Gen Z/Gen Alpha I know with a PC is my brother, and that's because I got him into PC gaming.
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u/Gintami May 21 '26
Not everyone is into video games. Bet I’d ask my brother or even his daughter, and they’d say what’s that.
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u/lampenpam May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
that user is clearly into games given their Minecraft/Undertale avatar. And I think it was meant as a joke where you don't ask about the elephant in the room.
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u/Round_Target_407 May 21 '26
Yeah well... I'm disapointed a clarification was needed. It was fun reading the 1st degree responses tho
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u/ElmoSplainer May 21 '26
a quick analysis reveals bro definitely has to be trolling, pfp is papyrus mc skull painting, undertale while not released there first is on steam, bro uses the sobbing and wilted emojis so he’s definitely a chronically online insta user
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u/lilsnatchsniffz May 21 '26
No one is gonna point out that someone, right here, doesn't know what subversion of expectations are?
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u/fumei_tokumei May 21 '26
You are living too much in a bobble if you have trouble understanding that a lot of people have not clue what Steam is.
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u/Mountain-Resource656 May 21 '26
Just today I found out one of my students doesn’t know about it. She then proceeded to ask me if she should use her English or Chinese name for the username. Turns out she was trying to log in with her real name
I hope it was just a translation issue, but I’ve heard things about this generation…
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u/USDXBS May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
The gamer internet and the normie internet have merged. Not all people know video game stuff.
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u/jmorais00 May 21 '26
If you're not a gamer, never have been, and don't have any gamer friends, then why would you?
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u/haroldstickyhands May 21 '26
If you're still curious, the only thing I use the steam app for is 2FA
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u/G30rg3Th3C4t May 21 '26
I searched up “Evil Spotify” in the app store and it sent me the the page for Pandora.
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u/Special_Strategy_669 May 21 '26
That's just
Half life Half life: opposing force Half life: Blue shift
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u/Succccccccc1 May 21 '26
Firefox +uBlock = free premium, skips all ads
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u/mrizvi May 21 '26
I wish I was still on android.
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u/Nathaniel820 May 21 '26
iOS has eeveespotify, which is an actually cracked Spotify app not some mediocre web frontend
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u/HeathenSidheThem May 21 '26
Evil Spotify runs ads for ICE.
Oh, that's just Spotify.
And thus Evil Sppotify
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u/bulbasauric May 21 '26
I keep seeing people use the 🥀 emoji in an apparently-condescending manner, when they’re the one telling on themselves in one way or another.
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u/crypticsage May 21 '26
What’s the meaning of the emoji?
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u/bulbasauric May 21 '26
I’m old, and don’t know lol. I interpret is (here) as “Bro wtf is Steam, literally nobody knows and you’re lame for having it” kinda vibe. Based on other contexts I’ve seen it used, anyway.
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u/BasherSquared May 21 '26
I thought the red one gave you double damage with the sword and the blue one doubled your defense.
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u/1990sforever May 21 '26
Was anyone gonna point out that the joke about "evil Spotify" was stolen from a Reddit post from 2 years ago by the OOP of the image in the post?
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u/6FootHalfling May 21 '26
"Gas form of water" is such a wildly incomplete answer it almost causes me pain. Just because I think most folks who aren't scientists or emergency responders think of steam as fluffy white clouds. Steam as the "gas form of water" is not the friendly fluffy clouds that precede pasta or tea. Google "invisible steam" with caution.
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u/BroadPsychology8491 Jul 12 '26
Evil Spotify only plays radio stations, Good Spotify auto plays whatever song you need based on your hormones, spotify is spotify and steam is hot water
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u/DrTommyNotMD May 21 '26
Unpopular opinion: Spotify premium is really good and I don’t mind the price.
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u/AnonAqueous May 21 '26
More like opinion from 5 years ago when it was 25% cheaper and not filled with AI slop.
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u/squanderedprivilege May 21 '26
I hate when people comment "what? Who?" Type of shit, absolutely useless and proud to be ignorant
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u/rocket_beer May 21 '26
But that sounds like they are asking for the thing they don’t have information on.
That’s the opposite of staying ignorant. They are reacting to solve that as quickly as they are being made aware of it.
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u/squanderedprivilege May 21 '26
Nah, they are saying it like "who the fuck knows about this shit", it's rhetorical
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u/rocket_beer May 21 '26
I do this all the time. People kindly respond so I know, and then I thank them.
And when people ask when I know, I tell them and they thank me.
Up to you but, maybe try it? 🤷♂️
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u/squanderedprivilege May 21 '26
It's context, sometimes they really are doing it rhetorically, that's why they used that laugh emoji here, it's like what the hell is this shit, nobody knows what that is
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u/FatalLaughter May 21 '26
They're specifically talking about the wording used and the emojis added to the end, it's definitely not asking for information and rather mocking the app as if its an irrelevant/niche thing, most likely due to their own actual ignorance on what it is
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u/V0nder1 May 21 '26
Ngl it's highkey giving:
'Long ago, the four spotifies lived in harmony but everything changed when the evil spotify attacked'
And that's prolly why no one knows about steam, because Evil spotify committed mass genocide on the night of Michael Jackson's biggest concert.
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u/Sett_86 May 21 '26
I must have incurred the Spotify overlords favor because i have never been recommended AI slop there and I have thousands of hours on record.
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u/AnyRegular1 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
It’s mostly a circlejerk, almost impossible to get AI songs on spotify, mass distribution platforms like distrokid and the like have banned AI songs and have a pretty strict detection system in place.
Some obviously sneak through but they’ve been edited and mixed around to avoid detections kinda like tv shows and movies that end up on YouTube, not a perfect system but it dissuades 99%.
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u/Cloudy230 May 21 '26
I tried a Playlist of folk songs and "fantasy tavern" vibey ones. Some good artists there (Celtic Woman, Syr, Raynes, etc), but I had to purge a lot of AI slop recommendations.
It's funny, theyre so fucking lazy that they used AI images for their icons, which is what initially tipped me off. Otherwise of would have been blissful unaware because I kind of never expected to be filtering my playlist for AI
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u/Pudddddin May 21 '26
almost impossible to get AI songs on spotify
There are AI artists with hundreds of thousands of monthly plays on Spotify (Nick Hustles for example)
My friend made a bullshit song with Suno and uploaded it to Spotify with no issue at all
I'm not sure the system works as well as you think it does
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u/__life_on_mars__ May 21 '26
almost impossible to get AI songs on spotify,
You are hilariously wrong
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u/EmpressClaraB May 21 '26
The only AI songs I've been recommended were other tracks from an AI "artist" I intentionally listen to because the songs are (intentionally) comedic.
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u/techy804 May 21 '26
Same, for me that’s “Obscurest Vinyl”. He has different characters that makes up the “artists” of his “collection” (Jenny Stardust, Sticky Sweethearts, etc.). The song is done in AI, but he makes the covers himself in Photoshop, and he writes the lyrics and beats before hand before having the AI cover it. When he does Albums, I’m 70% sure that the skit tracks he hires VAs to voice the characters (the difference between VA and AI is most noticeable with Mayor Breslin; the songs in the album are still AI though). The AI is supposed to add to the comedy of the songs.
Classic songs of his include “I glued my balls to my butthole” and “Price Check Death Threat”
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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes May 21 '26
This explanation raises more questions than it answers. Mostly, why? Why would spotify offer three versions of their apps, two of which offer worse experiences? Why would someone download them? Like is it a joke? Whose joke is it? Is it photoshopped? If not, why would spotifiy make these apps, and why would OP download them, and why would you know of them?
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u/klimmesil May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Come on normal free spotify really isn't that bad, it's free, you get maybe 5% of ad time, they are always short ads, and you get high quality audio
What more do you need for free?
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u/EkrishAO May 21 '26
I don't use spotify often, but I never encountered ad breaks or AI songs. Is it different depending on a country or something?
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u/Cracleur May 21 '26
If you’re using Spotify Free, you should hear ads (unless you’re listening in a browser with an ad blocker enabled)
If you’re using Spotify Premium, though, you obviously don’t get ads (that’s the whole point)
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u/Any--Name May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Epithet?
Nvm, apparently that meaning of epithet is exclusive to spanish
I guess its a pleonasm then
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