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.
Tidal is actually great. You can get studio quality, if that’s something you care about, they give 3x more to artists than spotify, share your playlist, good track radio, and indeed filter out all the ai crap. Honesty I have to say it’s a great service… I buy as much as I can on bandcamp, and use Tidal for streaming.