I’m a fan of symphonic metal, and something about that is telling YouTube Music that I must fucking love repetitive, soulless AI slop featuring guitar sounds.
It’s probably just time to set sail, but I do appreciate the convenience of streaming. Seeding a playlist with a single song has let me to a lot of music that would have otherwise flown under my radar, but every fucking time it plays something I haven’t heard before nowadays, it’s just more AI slop. Thumbs-downing them doesn’t seem to do shit.
Youtube Music is the only service I’m aware of that work doesn’t block (which… honestly why would they disallow Pandora, but leave Youtube?? I digress…) so that’s what I’ve been using. But I do have my phone, so I could run an alternative off of that.
The obvious answer would be YT with filters, but… I don’t actually see a way to set a filter - you just search a song and it does its thing. If I could just block every channel made after… idk, 2022, that would pretty well solve the issue… Is there a way to do that? That’d definitely be the easiest option.
Otherwise, is there better streaming service (which for me means decent selection of metal / actually categorizes its subgenres, and active ban of AI slop)?
The convenience of running this from my workstation just isn’t worth the amount of garbage flooding YouTube.
I use Qobuz and don’t have to deal with AI slop. They don’t really have many algorithms that give you like 6 daily playlists like Spotify, but I prefer that. It feels more intentional. I also really like that they have human curated playlists, even though I don’t always like every song on them. In a world that is always pushing algorithms at you, its nice to listen to songs I don’t love to expand my music tastes a little. I’ve listened to a lot of music I otherwise wouldn’t have because of their human curated playlists. You can even buy music from their website, which is pretty nifty.
https://community.qobuz.com/blog/qobuz-human-first-stand-on-ai-generated-music