Deezer just launched a free site to scan your playlists for AI – and yes, it works on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal

Deezer launches AI music detector
Analyzes your playlists to see how much of your music is AI dirt
It’s free and works on any streamer, not just Deezer

The annual Spotify Unwrapped has proven to be a masterclass in free marketing, with music lovers around the world posting on social media how much they use Spotify.

Now, in an iconic “hold my beer” move, Deezer has just launched something to give you a stat you’ll actually want to brag about.

The streaming service has unveiled an online music detector, which it calls… the AI Music Detector (no flashy names here). This is an online site that can connect to your streaming service of choice to quickly scan all your playlists and tell you how much of your AI-generated tracks are. It literally takes about a minute – although in TechRadar’s tests, Apple Music libraries took the longest.

Live on a prayer

A screenshot of Deezer's AI music detector

(Image credit: Deezer)

I was already pretty sure I wouldn’t listen to AI music – it would be pretty hard to do so when 90% of your music tastes come from the 2000s – but as an avowed anti-AI, it’s worth checking out.

It was very quick to pair Deezer’s Free AI music checker with my Spotify account, and it took less than a minute to browse my libraries. Colleagues who checked through other streaming services, including Apple Music, report longer wait times (and even a crash before it worked), but for Spotify and Tidal it was straightforward.

The Deezer tool quickly returned the score I expected: 0% AI. Good. It even allowed me to keep a little badge to post on social media.

Some people on the TR team received an AI score of 1%, much to their chagrin, and this raised some questions. First: what song? They weren’t told about it, and so clearing out this stray strand of spillage was much more difficult than it would have been, if it were simply disclosed. The only way to find out is perhaps to transfer your playlist to Deezer, which is what the tool wants to help you with…

Second, where was this trace of AI found? It’s not 100% clear, but the Deezer tool is most likely only checking your personalized “static” playlists, rather than those generated by algorithms that you have no control over (or even those of other people that you have saved).

While this will still leave some users with as many questions as answers (is that 1% hiding somewhere in your hyperpop playlist?), it’s great to see Deezer moving forward in its war against AI-generated music.