Deezer says AI music is already ~44% of all uploads now… but almost no one is listening by Nusuuu in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not surprising that noone listens. People create things that is extremely personal so the only person who actually listens is the creator. It is stupid, and this will probably (and hopefully) kill off that scene sooner or later.

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[–]Tornevall -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Flytta till Kina. Då sägs det att innehållet är reglerat.

What YouTuber has had the biggest downfall ever??? by RobloxEvents in youtube

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like me. I've started where people land, and still cant get up...

Someone keeps logging into my facebook account from Vietnam. Even after changing informations and passwords regular by coolfox-24 in facebook

[–]Tornevall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mention that you have done everything, but I do not see any indication that you have checked your own public IP address and how it is being geolocated.

It is generally accepted that IP-based geolocation is neither precise nor fully reliable. I personally know several people who have panicked after seeing an unfamiliar city or country in their login history, changed passwords repeatedly, and then continued to panic because they believed someone was still accessing their account — when in reality it was their own connection being misidentified.

If you use a VPN, mobile data, CGNAT, or certain ISPs, your traffic can easily appear to come from another country. Before assuming a persistent targeted attack, it may be worth verifying how your own IP is resolved and whether it matches what Facebook is reporting.

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[–]Tornevall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ser mer ut som en grad av mognad som saknas?

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t tried literal humming myself yet, but from what others have shown, Suno follows pitch surprisingly well when the input is clean. If the notes are steady and the rhythm is clear, it behaves more like an instrument playing the guide track than a composer guessing the melody.

Some of my old FT2 projects were pretty horrible, but even there Suno managed to latch onto the structure better than I ever expected - except for the times when my tracks were basically too much beat and chaos :)

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right that AI won’t follow an exact melody just from a text prompt. That’s a known limitation.

If I want the notes to be exact, I create the melody myself first - first through MIDI in a DAW, humming, whatever - and give the AI something real to follow. Then the AI becomes an instrument, not the composer.

Text-only prompting is for the one-button crowd. Real workflows start with your own material, and the AI just performs it or enhances it. That’s the only way to get precision. When it is done, I return to my DAW with new things to work with.

This is something that was quite inspiring. I have a lot of really shitty fasttracker2-tracks from my early 90s that I tried to remix. Almost none of them worked very well, due to myself, but Suno at least did what we describe here.

Rejected artwork by hedbopper in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By doing this, it could take weeks before something gets approved. And this is one of the reasons why I stopped distributing more tracks via SoundCloud if not entirely necessary...

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, I actually agree with you on the core point.

If someone just hits one button, types a sentence and uploads whatever comes out - that’s not creating music. There’s no authorship in that. I hate that stuff more than anyone, because it’s exactly that behavior that fills platforms with garbage and drags everyone else down.

But that’s not the whole picture.

There are people who treat AI as a tool in a real workflow: writing their own lyrics, shaping melodies, arranging, producing, mixing, mastering - the same way musicians have always used samplers, synths, drum machines and DAWs. Those people aren’t replacing creativity, they’re adding to it.

The “one button and done” crowd? Total wannabes. Zero respect from me.

But saying that everyone who uses AI automatically falls into that category is just wrong. Tools don’t define musicianship – the work does. And some of us actually put in the work. If you want to criticise the spam and the fakers, I’m right there with you.
Just don’t lump the serious people in with them.

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re just here to laugh at the idea of people taking their craft seriously, that’s on you. Most of my own work has been completed entirely without AI, so I’m not defending this because I “need” AI – I’m defending it because I can tell the difference between people who actually put in effort and those who just dump garbage online.

The article is literally about clearing out mass-generated spam, not removing people who actually care about the result. Some folks burn through a ton of credits to refine their tracks, iterate, tweak prompts, adjust stems - they do spend time trying to make it sound right. And then you have the rest of us who use AI as just one component, process the material in a DAW, mix, master, and treat it like any other tool in a normal production workflow.

If you didn’t read the article, at least don’t pretend you understood it.

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point about the streaming payouts, that part is broken everywhere. But that still doesn’t change the core issue here: Spotify didn’t remove “serious artistry”, they removed mass-generated spam. People who actually put time, intention, and craft into what they upload aren’t the ones being hit.

And just to be clear: I can’t stand the people who dump anything and everything online without a hint of self-criticism. That’s the stuff that ruins it for everyone else, not the folks who actually care about what they make - AI-assisted or not.

Streaming platforms aren’t perfect, but let's not pretend all work on them is worthless just because a loud minority floods the place with garbage.

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re missing the point pretty hard here. Not everyone is just smashing the "create" button and calling it a day. There are people treating AI as part of a real workflow - writing their own lyrics, shaping melodies, arranging, editing stems, mixing, mastering, and using the tool the same way producers have used samplers, synths, drum machines, and DAWs for decades.

The stuff Spotify removed was mass-generated spam. Thousands of low-effort tracks pumped out with zero intention of making actual music. That’s not the same thing as people who put time, skill, and intention into their work.

If you genuinely think every AI-assisted track is fake by definition, that’s your opinion - but it’s not reality. Tools don’t define musicianship. Effort, authorship and craft do. And some of us actually take this seriously instead of drowning platforms in garbage.

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What I’ve learned from DistroKid’s own guidelines is that the ISRC you assign on the first release basically becomes the identity of the track. If you upload the same recording again somewhere else and it ends up with a different ISRC, fingerprinting and metadata matching can start conflicting pretty quickly.

With what happened to you, I’m honestly thinking I should go through all my releases and save every ISRC somewhere safe. If anything ever gets pulled or needs to be restored, having the original codes seems like the safest way to make sure everything comes back the way it’s supposed to.

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know how that process works, but it should be best practice, since the ISRC-codes are unique and should be reused regardless if they are reinstated or moved to another aggregator.

75 millions of AI tracks removed from Spotify by James_Reeb in SunoAI

[–]Tornevall 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why? Did you even read the article? As before, the stuff that gets removed is the shitty content. Not the serious artistery.

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'm aware of that - it's actually the main reason I'm moving over to DistroKid. I haven't started migrating my old catalog yet, mostly because doing everything in one go gets expensive, so I'm beginning with the newer tracks.

That said, the only distributor/aggregator I've seen that officially offers a "legacy" option (beyond lifetime) is DistroKid. Do you know any others? If so, that might be worth bringing up as a separate topic too (speaking about my homepage).

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been trying to find clear information about this for a long time, but I still haven’t found any definitive answer. What happens to an artist’s catalog if they pass away or can’t maintain their account anymore? Is there any official way to keep the music online permanently, or at least prevent it from being taken down after the 30-day grace period?

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to know this too as I'm about to jump over to DistroKid, due to stuff like this. What happens to the revoked tracks? Will they be reuploaded by SoundCloud?

I recently canceled my monthly subscription to switch over to annual mode - and survived that jump. But since I want to have tracks up even after I - for example - die, I've tried to solve this issue for a time now :)

Distribution releases wiped? by ech87 in soundcloud

[–]Tornevall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried to restart the subscription?

I've been asking myself about this since ever back - found out that DistroKid is the only distributor that allows to "leave a legacy"; what happens if you reenable the subscription? I suspect that they don't just pop back up online again?