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.
I use Tidal and am happy with it. I changed from Spotify a few years ago because Spotify pissed me off locking away podcasts, Tidal pays better to musicians and the audio quality was better (at the time?). I can tell you that on Tidal I have never been subjected to slop.
Today I might have a hard look at Qobuz as well, except that my Tesla (I really did buy it before Elon went completely off the cliff) has Tidal support but not Qobuz 🤷♂️ My streaming boxes support both.
Music streaming is weirdly European with Spotify from Sweden, tidal from Norway and Qobuz from France.