By not updating my music taste for the last 15 years
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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Music peaked right around the time I was 20.
By streaming mp3s, which I have collected and updated for almost 25 years, from my personal server.
By getting old.
I don't purposely listen to anything made after 2015.
Piracy. Private trackers are genuinely better stewards and curators of their libraries because unlike the the slop factories, they're made by real humans, for real humans.
Don't use Spotify, they actively try to put AI shit into your playlist so they have to pay less royalties. Not sure how scumbaggy other services are.
Cancel Spotify if that's what you use. I've been happy with Tidal.
Certainly not a magic bullet tho. I tend to not listen to a lot of new music so I don't give the slop much of an opening.
Qobuz has seemed to stay on top of generated music for me so far even with recommendation playlists.
Buy real CDs from artists I see play in person. Or CDs of artists that are long dead.
CDs are key, streaming random tracks you have no clue what you will get.
If your kick is new music than you should just switch languages and listen to stuff pre 2022.
I listen to a ton of foreign language music. The 2022 piece would help but it won't last for me. Young people are always coming up with new sounds and I love that!
Yeah and many of them are using AI to do it.
Given your genre flexibility, there is nearly infinite music out there from well before the was any question about it being human-made. You could easily listen to songs you've never heard back to back for the rest of your life without coming close to running out of old music.
For modern stuff you've basically got to see video of them performing live to be sure.
Can’t help you with music but I share your frustration when it comes to being suckered into consuming AI slop. My entire adult life, text to speech has been a constant part of my day, so I pride myself on being able to sniff out when the person talking isn’t a person.
Even with these AI voices I’ll eventually catch an odd stutter or wonky prosody, but it may take a good minute or more of listening, and when I do figure it out I feel like I’ve been scammed.
I built up my own personal library through the years that I will probably still be working my way through in 10-15 years, when I find something I like in it I search out more
i only listen to music from bands that have existed since long before ai music became a thing
What platform are you on? I haven’t experienced this in Apple Music but I often listen to the same stuff rather than going down discovery holes.
I'd second this question - I use a lot of bancamp and so far it seems pretty ai-free
Related bands are less likely to be AI than cold searches. You can also check to see if they have any social media influence, AI bands are unlikely to have any live clips
I'm doing those and they're still getting in. But I don't look to see if they have a presence until I've decided I want to know more about the band...
Definitely research them! Don't just stop at a single song, find out what country they came from and who their influences are. You'll start to piece together a mental map of the various bands you know, as well as discovering new bands that way.
Whenever I'm feeling a new genre I don't have a playlist for I find an already made one. Old blogs and forums and such have so many curated lists. Lots of music communities exist and are still updating lists with new artists. From there I either find lists recommending songs/artists similar to the ones I liked (again plenty of human curated lists) or get recommendations from friends.
I follow some of my absolute favorite artists and they post inspiration playlists when they're making new albums from time to time too that I'll often listen to.
Basically I just don't randomly search for songs.