This is a poorly titled HN submission. This isn't what's happened, if you read the post - A user asked about being able to do this. Spotify claimed it isn't currently a feature, however they have a feature request that the requester can add their voice to if so inclined.
So the better solution is to set up Navidrome, "acquire" 1TB of music. Look for discographies, top 10k, stuff you like. Use a reverse proxy to a cheap VPS or Cloudflare. (Ssh port forward from Navidrome to VPS 127.0.0.1, and have nginx handle reverse proxy. Put it in systemd unit to autoreconnect)
Then you can listen to whatever you want.
Im all for paying for good content or service. But I quit paying for companies to abuse me.
Big chunk of artists don't earn enough to make a living as artists from Spotify or streaming services. You can search this online, it's well known and reported.
Spotify hasn't refused at all. They don't say anything, but a non-employee specifically links to a page where people can upvote the idea to help get it implemented.
Flagged because there is nothing of value for HN here, this is just a random feature request.
Unlikely that is the case with this particular feature, its a feature request with near 2000 upvotes and more than 340 comments, plus a very hot topic in recent months.
I think with stem separation,you could potentially train a model. But the latest Suno is really good. You can still kind of "hear" it. I had a song come into my playlist. "The Dad Bods Pop Punk". I have a keen ear, and I listened to the song a couple of times when I realized it. When I went to the artist it was a bunch of AI-generated pictures and listening to the other ones it's clear it's AI.
Youtube is being overloaded by such playlists. They become obvious after listening to them for a bit. There is something jarring in them which makes them kinda annoying.
I really hate the constant nagging to use AI, I really wish I could just block it. I don't care how useful it is, I don't care about excuses of not using the service, I want some way to block all of it.