I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like…

Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven’t heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it’s old school urban rap, the next it’s kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.

I never know what I’ll be in the mood for but I’ll find a thread with a song I don’t know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.

This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI… damnit!

    • ivanvector@piefed.caEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I only sub to Deezer, a French streaming service that actively filters AI music and blocks it from their algorithms and search results.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      Be warned that all styles of music are getting AI inserted into them.

      Your method works as long as you never use an algorithm to mix your playlist, but as soon as you do, you’re likely to get an AI track inserted into your ears, even if it’s 70s classic rock.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Pretty much what every one of my friends have done. My kids were a great source in their late teens / early twenties. But as they’ve gotten older now they pretty much listen to the same stuff.

      No, I’m not going to have more kids.

  • WFH@lemmy.zip
    22·
    2 months ago

    Are you using Spotify ?

    Because they are mainly known for 2 things:

    • they are nazi cunts who platform nazi cunts and play ads for nazi cunts
    • they flood their library with slop as a way to funnel money to themselves rather than to legitimate artists.

    I’m not aware of a streaming service completely free of slop, but I know some like Qobuz are actively detecting and removing it.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
    22·
    2 months ago

    If your kick is new music than you should just switch languages and listen to stuff pre 2022.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      I listen to a ton of foreign language music. The 2022 piece would help but it won’t last for me. Young people are always coming up with new sounds and I love that!

      • verdigris@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 months ago

        Yeah and many of them are using AI to do it.

        Given your genre flexibility, there is nearly infinite music out there from well before the was any question about it being human-made. You could easily listen to songs you’ve never heard back to back for the rest of your life without coming close to running out of old music.

        For modern stuff you’ve basically got to see video of them performing live to be sure.

  • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Never stumbled upon AI generated music ever.

    I have my local library with ripped CDs and pirated music mostly from the 2010s and below.

    When I feel like discovering new music, I

    • browse forums to find arists similar to those I already listen to
    • I search for artists that have been featured in a collab in songs I already listen to
    • Or, I use ListenBrainz’s Weekly Exploration tab when I’m feeling bored.

    No streaming bullshit, AI algorithms made to keep me hooked, and definetly no AI music to be seen or heard.

      • xpey@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Also +1 to the guy that mentioned to listen to your local music scene! I have as many smaller local artists as I possibly can in my library. I’m always looking for random stickers on the streets or festival posters, and then I get home and look all of them up to see if they’re my jam.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Cancel Spotify if that’s what you use. I’ve been happy with Tidal.

    Certainly not a magic bullet tho. I tend to not listen to a lot of new music so I don’t give the slop much of an opening.

    • Codilingus@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      +1, I’ve been very happy with Tidal for years now. I go down discovery holes fairly often and have yet to come across anything AI. It does a good job of vibe matching what I wanna hear.

      Plus the audiophile quality is very, very nice if you have the equipment!

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Tidal lacks about a third of the music on my playlist. They have all the big artists but miss a lot of the small ones…

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        when was the last time you checked that? if you can toss me two or three artist names I can see if they’re on there now

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          A year or so ago when I found out how little YouTube pays artists. It would be hard to figure out which ones were missing but I’ll take a look again and see how it is this weekend when I check out Apple music.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Piracy. Private trackers are genuinely better stewards and curators of their libraries because unlike the the slop factories, they’re made by real humans, for real humans.

  • joelle_ether@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I built up my own personal library through the years that I will probably still be working my way through in 10-15 years, when I find something I like in it I search out more. I realize that doesn’t help anyone else, good luck out there

  • early_riser@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
    9·
    2 months ago

    Can’t help you with music but I share your frustration when it comes to being suckered into consuming AI slop. My entire adult life, text to speech has been a constant part of my day, so I pride myself on being able to sniff out when the person talking isn’t a person.

    Even with these AI voices I’ll eventually catch an odd stutter or wonky prosody, but it may take a good minute or more of listening, and when I do figure it out I feel like I’ve been scammed.

  • braindead@piefed.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    By streaming mp3s, which I have collected and updated for almost 25 years, from my personal server.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
    7·
    2 months ago

    Buy real CDs from artists I see play in person. Or CDs of artists that are long dead.

    CDs are key, streaming random tracks you have no clue what you will get.

      • shweddy@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Check out your local thrift store and your local library theyre gold mines for physical media to rip the only other thing you’d need is a disc drive

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          I have one on my gaming PC that I’ve probably used 3 times in the 15 years I’ve had that drive.

          And a good idea for the hits for sure.

  • shweddy@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Listen to artists I know are human, if the artist doesn’t show up in a web search sorry but they gotta go its too risky

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I used to only rely on people making recommendations but there just isn’t enough of that with the people I know unfortunately. Though you’re not wrong…

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      Pretty sure I’m adding everything they’ve published to my playlist! Currently listening to Incurable Disease at an unhealthy level and cannot get enough.

      Thank you again!