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Anna’s Archive - Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)

submitted 1 week ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

They've released torrents of the metadata, and they plan to release the music files, but they haven't yet. They intend to start by offering the downloads as bulk torrents, but they're open to considering implementing the ability to download single songs in the future.

So in short, yes, but you can't download them yet