Deezer Launches AI Music Detector for Spotify and Apple Music

Deezer launched a free tool that scans playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms for AI-generated music. It's a solution to a problem that other streaming services prefer to ignore.

Deezer went ahead of the rest

Two years ago, Deezer became the first major streaming platform to actively label AI music in its catalog. The company developed its own detection technology and offered to license it to competitors—Spotify, Apple Music, and others. It seems the offer didn't generate much interest. Instead, these platforms chose a simpler but less reliable path: they asked artists to indicate themselves whether they used generative AI.

"No other company followed our example, so we decided to make this available to everyone.

Now anyone can check whether their playlist contains synthetic music, regardless of the service," explained Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier.

How the detector works

Deezer's tool is simple to use. The user copies a link to any playlist from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, or other platforms, pastes it into Deezer's online detector, and gets results. The system scans each track and checks whether this song is marked as AI-generated in Deezer's database. The tool includes:

• Analysis of all tracks in a playlist in seconds
• Display of the percentage of synthetic music in the playlist
• A detailed list of each track with or without AI labels
• Ability to filter and sort results
• Information updates as Deezer's database expands

The tool requires no authorization or login—it's completely anonymous and free.

The problem with voluntary labeling

Spotify and Apple Music rely on the honesty of artists. The system only works if music creators themselves indicate that they used AI. In practice, this rarely happens. Many creators don't disclose AI use, either because they don't know about the requirement or because they hope for more streams in playlists. Result: the database of voluntary labels remains incomplete and unreliable.

Qobuz, a premium streaming service, attempted to respond by launching its own detector. But the two platforms with the largest audiences remain supporters of voluntary labeling.

What it means

The music industry hasn't yet agreed on a standard for handling AI. Deezer offers a pragmatic solution: give listeners a tool to check for themselves. For musicians, this could be an incentive to label their work more honestly—or to further improve AI detectors that will become increasingly difficult to deceive.