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# More Bad News From Spotify?
- URL: https://all-about-music.ghost.io/more-bad-news-from-spotify/
- Published: 2025-11-04T00:15:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-04T00:15:16.000Z
- Author: Jay Peach

In a newsletter I get from Music Business Worldwide, there’s an article titled “Spotify holds a patent for tech that can generate song mashups”. In it it says:

*The filing, unearthed by MBW, describes a system that can analyze songs to determine which tracks are musically compatible, then automatically combine them into new mashup versions for individual users.*

*According to the document, the technology would work by first separating tracks into their component parts - vocals and instrumentals - then "adding the vocal component" of "at least one music track to at least a select segment of the base music track."*

*In other words, Spotify's algorithm could automatically layer the singing from one song over the backing track of a completely different song, though users would still control the creative choices.*

*Our discovery arrives hot on the heels of last week's news that Spotify plans to develop "artist-first" AI music products in partnership with the majors and key independents. One of the big questions following that announcement was what exactly those products might be.*

*A Spotify spokesperson told us on Tuesday (October 21) that the company's song mashup patent is "unrelated to last week's announcement".*

Looks to me to be another good reason to dump Spotify as a platform. Ripping off artist’s work without attribution or payment is outright theft.