So first off, let me set this straight.

I actually like GenAI music. It offers me a way to er... "create" tracks that resonate with a particular moment in my life. It's more personal and relevant than anything most artists produce. But that's where it ends - I don't want to hear GenAI mass market slop. Heck, I don't want to hear MOST folk's AI Generated stuff. That's for them. The music I generate is for me.

Moving on from that - I primarily use Spotify currently for music discovery, and up until a few months ago it's been the most reliable way to find new Artists that might interest me. Their algorithm, while not perfect, generally hooked me up with artists that were in the ballpark of what I like and were REAL.

Today, about half of my "Release Radar" is AI generated slop. Some of it is published under their own names and labels which is fine, but others are transparently attempting to dupe listeners by imitating or outright impersonating known bands. However, even in the "nice" case of well labeled and non-impersonating AI tunes, it's significantly getting in the way of finding new stuff.

I think I'm done with Spotify, recent statements from the CEO has me thinking that they don't consider this to be a problem. They aren't looking to fix this issue, and aren't even pretending to.

But the problem is, none of the other music streaming services are in a better situation. None have sought to deal with the artist impersonation problem or general labeling of AI generated music.

I feel like I have to go back to CD's and word-of-mouth like back in the "old days" - at least if I'm to be sure that the music was actually made by a human. But how long would it be before we start getting CD's with AI generated music on them? My hope is that the fad is too "low effort" to bother with pressing vinyl or burning CD's.

How are you discovering new (human) music in this rapidly changing landscape?

An absolutely fantastic look at how goth is overwhelmingly white and all the problems that causes in it by Shonalika.

I was listening to a vaporwave internet radio station (which is this, it also streams genres that is similar, such as future funk if i am correct) and this was one of the songs that was played, thought it would be nice to share this here lol

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22534350

As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with the Irish tune of the same name.

Kim Johnson on banjo, Jesse Pearson on fiddle. Rest of the album is great too.

This Baby Boomer-centric sentiment seems to crystallize around one topic in particular: modern pop music’s treatment of love and romance—or the lack thereof. According to Boomer Bob, the love song is dying. But is it true? Let’s investigate...

Acid for the month of December and beyond!

Acid December is an multidimensional holiday observed subconciously by all cultures and religions, by listening to and creating Acid immidiate inner peace is achieved, as well as making us look more attractive and say more interesting things. devsound got this ball rolling way back when and the rest as they say is up to you

To participate send your most bespoke tracks to acid@datapop.se

Hi, does Rockbox have a limit regarding album art resolution? My iPod G5.5 only shows it for some tracks, sometimes with ridicously long track durations in the progress bar. Any ideas? TIA

[update 01]: RB apparently prefers JPEG until 600 x 600 pixels, ideally not progressive. After updating the cover art to 150 x 150 sizes, the iPod briefly displays the album art for ~10 sec max, followed by skipping to the next song and the same behavior all over again. Not sure if this is happening because the database might still be updating in the background.

[update 02]: issue seems solved: File transfer to the iPod should be done in disk mode of the iPod OS, otherwise songs will be corrupted.

Thanks everyone to contributing with your input!

This is downright brilliant Talking Heads parody and satire about the sad state of modern gaming.

Haven't heard this song in a good, good while until I was at the grocery store today where it was playing overhead.

Apparently, I'm "this grocery store is playing my jams" years old haha.

Love the dark autumnal vibes. Music that takes its time.

A free global live stream marking the release of the new album Songs Of A Lost World, out November 1st.

See video description for precise times.

Seems there is no 60s music instance on the fediverse so I'll post it here. John Cale is on this too, might have done production as well but I might be wrong. Anyway, awesome track imo.