MYSTERIOUS: 4 - What They Never Told You

Spotify to label AI-generated artists and remove them from curated playlists

MUSIC streaming platform Spotify has announced it is to label artificial intelligence-generated artists and remove them from its curated playlists

The National (Scotland) · Aug 12

Spotify to label AI-generated artists and remove them from playlists

It said the AI Persona badge ‘signals to listeners that an artist’s identity may be AI-generated and does not represent a real person’.

Evening Standard · Aug 12

Spotify to label AI-generated artist personas with new ‘AI Persona’ badges

Spotify's move comes as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms, with Deezer recently reporting that AI tracks accounted for more than half of all new daily uploads in June.

Euronews · Aug 12

Is All the Chaos Good for the WNBA’s Bottom Line?

The league faces controversy after controversy, but ratings are up.

Sports Illustrated · Aug 10

Spotify quietly added a button to skip ads in podcasts, except for its own promotional content — and it’s sparked widespread concern for the future of podcasting

Spotify quietly added a new way for you to skip through ads in podcast episodes, but some fear it's the beginning of the end for creators.

TechRadar · Aug 10

Spotify helps me keep track of my favorite songs from each year — but this one upgrade would make it so much easier for grouping my favorite albums

Spotify still doesn't let you add albums to folders, so I've been using Musicboard to keep track of my favorite releases instead.

TechRadar · Aug 9

‘Playing around with your favourite artist’s song is an ultimate expression of fandom’: Spotify is taking another step into participatory music tools with its upcoming AI remix feature — but it signals red flags for industry professionals

Spotify's agreement with Merlin brings it one step closer to launching its AI-powered remix tool, but where do industry professionals stand on it?

TechRadar · Aug 8

This hi-res streaming service dedicated to jazz and classical music is now available on Focal & Naim streaming products

And you can even get a three-month free trial… yay Presto!

What Hi-Fi? · Aug 7

‘There is an alternative to capitalism’: after addiction and losing a home to LA wildfires, indie rockers Diiv start again

No stranger to rebuilding after disaster, the US band’s frontman Zachary Cole Smith now sees the entire capitalist project as ripe for reinvention, on a surprisingly upbeat new AG Cook-produced album

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7

Online shadow libraries – and why they’re being implicated in AI copyright lawsuits

A few days before Christmas 2025, a secretive online activist group called Anna’s Archive said it had downloaded roughly 86 million audio files and  256 million rows of track metadata from Spotify’s catalogue.

The Conversation · Aug 6