While Deezer completely changed its interface and visual appearance in November 2023, we learned that the French streaming platform has made a new change. There’s a big spring cleaning going on in your catalogue.
More precisely, it has been several months since the company started this liquidation of its library. In total, the service has removed nearly 26 million titlesor about 13% of its catalogue! But be careful, don’t foul too quickly. In fact, this major cut is completely justified and legitimate.
Deezer tackles parasitic content in its catalog
In reality, you shouldn’t have lost even a single song from your favorite playlist… white noise, “fake albums” and artificial intelligence-generated songs. Deezer focused on such content accepted by the platform digital pollution. Understand that productions are responsible for generating too much revenue at the expense of legitimate artists and creators.
Admittedly, compilations of white noise and ambient sounds really have no place on a streaming service that focuses primarily on music content.
The fight against artificial intelligence, a challenge for platforms
As a reminder, Deezer has a total of 150 million titles. However, please note that this includes albums that contain only one track, songs that have not been listened to for at least a year, and finally tracks made from scratch by AI. Regarding the second, Therefore, the platform has sparked hostilities for some time.
In June 2023, Deezer decided to officially tackle AI-generated songs to help artists better monetize their music and protect themselves against fraud and plagiarism. The service specifically built RadarAn AI-based tool that can precisely detect songs produced by AI. We would like to remind you that more than 200 artists have signed it, including Katy Perry and Billie Eilish. A petition in April 2024 requesting action from streaming platforms Protect artists’ copyrights against artificial intelligence.
