A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 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
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        2 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.