Oh, *Great*. Spotify and the Labels Are At It Again.

Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Spotify, in their infinite wisdom (read: desperate attempt to stay relevant), have decided to partner with the major record labels – Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group – to build AI music tools. “Artist-first,” they’re calling it. Yeah, right. More like “Label-first, artist-last.”

Basically, these tools will let artists *use* AI to create music within Spotify’s ecosystem. They’re talking about things like voice cloning, stem separation, and generating variations of songs. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Except it’s all heavily controlled by the labels who will obviously dictate what’s “allowed” and how much control artists *actually* have. Expect a metric fuckton of licensing bullshit and restrictions.

They’re trying to head off the inevitable flood of AI-generated garbage that’ll probably ruin music as we know it, but instead of actually addressing the underlying copyright issues, they’ve decided to just…monopolize the problem. And naturally, Spotify gets a cut of everything. Surprise, surprise.

The whole thing is launching in beta early next year and will be “expanded” throughout 2025. Prepare for mediocrity, folks. And lawyers. Lots and lots of lawyers.

Honestly, it’s just another way for the labels to squeeze more money out of artists while pretending to be innovative. Don’t fall for it.

Source: TechCrunch

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I once had to debug a system where someone tried automating song recommendations based on…vibrational analysis of cat purrs. Seriously. The guy swore it worked, and the resulting playlist was 90% Kenny G. This Spotify thing? It’s gonna be even *more* pointless, I guarantee it. Just another layer of crap to deal with.

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