A lot of it probably.

They have a breakdown of the data on their blog. If you scroll down to album releases by date, you can see a very sharp uptick in releases, with around ~2 million albums in 2019 to ~11 million albums in 2024.

They even make a comment on it likely being inflated by AI:

If we group albums by release year, we see that more and more new music is added to Spotify, a lot of it likely automatically generated: […] The amount of procedurally and AI generated content makes it hard to find what is actually valuable.

Yeah they’re definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I’m all for them releasing the data

data shared with 17203 partners

Only 17203? I feel like that’s low

Me learning unity rn

Just the book for me

Curse 24/7 and you’re basically a superhero

Haha that’s so dumb. She could’ve just taken a screenshot!

I showed her the type tool in Photoshop and it blew her mind.

Or well. That.

It’s around 3-4 years now I think. Sad thing is that it’s an iPhone mini, so the capacity wasn’t that great to begin with so I go around a full day on a charge if I just have it laying next to me.

Also since it’s an apple I guess that it’s really hard to replace the battery. But I might look into it. It’s better than buying a completely new one anyway.

Welp fuck me I guess

Do you think that songs are recorded with all of the artists crammed in a room with a couple of mics placed around the room which is then recorded immediately to file? Cause that is not how it (in pretty much most cases) works.

You record the artist separately and than layer the tracks. Hell, most of the time even that isn’t done in a single take. You do multiple takes and splice the best parts together.

And a recording room does not have a characteristic sound shape. They are made to reflect as little sound from the walls as possible so you get the most pure version of the instrument. That’s the whole point. If you want something like reverb you add it either in the signal chain during playing or later in the production. Unless the instrument is recorded in a specific room with specific mics placed about for that rooms specific sound, if you hear any sort of room characteristics that is most likely a mistake.

The only case I can think of where you can hear the things you are talking about is when you are recording a live show/album. But even then you will need post processing for a proper “soundstage”, aka being able to hear the position of the different musicians. A single mic does not record position. You have to pan them left or right after the recording to get them left or right in the soundstage. You can do the exact same thing with electronic music.

And as I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, using autotune does not automatically make you a bad singer. If you can hear the autotune, that’s on purpose. If you can’t hear any autotune, there is a good chance that’s it’s still being used. The whole point of autotune is that you don’t hear it when used as intended.

That’s sick, thanks for sharing!

Almost true. The “autotune effect” only appears if you dial the knobs all the way up when setting up the effect. But you are correct that properly used autotune is pretty much not noticeable.

Using autotune also does not automatically make you a bad singer. T-Pain is very known for the autotune effect he uses on his vocals, but he is an amazing singer even without using it.

Yes

Salt is another example. A teaspoon of salt can be a very different amount depending on if you use fine salt, coarse salt or even flaky salt.

This made me feel like I was having a stroke

Lycamobile? Do they actually provide games? I only know them as a cheap prepaid SIM card provider lol

tulpa

Now thats a word i haven’t read in a long time

In the words of my lord and savior samonella

(I don’t know if time stamps are copied on YTLITE, I’ll check on my pc and if not edit the link)

Comparing the pictures it looks like the exact same set of photos except like you said, more zoomed in.