{"id":87285,"date":"2024-02-10T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87285"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:56:02","slug":"fake-artists-on-my-spotify-feed-say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/02\/10\/fake-artists-on-my-spotify-feed-say-it-aint-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake artists? On my<\/em> Spotify feed? Say it ain’t so …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Gioia<\/a> rounds up a bunch of smaller music-related items in this post, including more evidence that Spotify continues to use fake artists:<\/p>\n

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I’ve griped a lot about the fake artists problem at Spotify. It’s like a stone in my shoe, and just gets worse and worse.<\/p>\n

I’m especially alarmed by those strange playlists \u2014 filled with mysterious artists who may not really exist<\/a>, or almost identical tracks circulating under dozens of different names<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a new example \u2014 a 20 hour playlist called “Jazz for Reading”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m supposed to be a jazz expert. So why haven’t I heard of these artists? And why is it so hard to find photos of these musicians online?<\/p>\n

I listened to twenty different tracks. There’s some superficial variety in the music, but each track I heard had the same piano tone and touch. Even the reverb sounds the same.<\/p>\n

But the musicians are allegedly different.<\/p>\n

Of course, I haven’t listened to the whole playlist. It feels endless, lasting almost an entire day!<\/p>\n

But what’s going on here? <\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

In other fields, this would be a scandal.<\/p>\n

Imagine if you ran a medical office with physicians’ names on the door, but patients never got a glimpse of a flesh-and-blood doctor. Or a law firm gave out legal advice, but no lawyers were ever seen in the office.<\/p>\n

Maybe Spotify will allay my concerns by putting these “artists” on tour. Why do I doubt that will happen?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Gioia rounds up a bunch of smaller music-related items in this post, including more evidence that Spotify continues to use fake artists: I’ve griped a lot about the fake artists problem at Spotify. It’s like a stone in my shoe, and just gets worse and worse. I’m especially alarmed by those strange playlists \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28],"tags":[58,200],"class_list":["post-87285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","tag-internet","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mHP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87288,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285\/revisions\/87288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}