I moved to Apple Music. It’s gotten a ton better in terms of content and UX since launch and I got tired of Spotify pulling bullshit like this news, the ridiculous audiobook “feature” they charge all users for, price hikes, no standard lossless audio…
I've had Spotify for a while now and I had no idea such a feature even existed. If I ever want to know song lyrics, I just Google it. Would have never even thought to look for them in Spotify.
They've started adding AI music to the catalog by themselves via fake accounts, resulting in them keeping 100% of the revenue, as there's no artist they need to pay any longer. Now they can move away from paid lyrics, to preserve some of their public image.
Its unconfirmed that Spotify is doing this, but it makes the most sense. Why else would spotify curated playlists be full of ai slop?
Drew Gooden and Gabi Belle on youtube have both recently put out videos detailing how ai is ruining the internet and they both bring up this spotify controversy.