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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[-] harcesz@szmer.info 8 points 2 weeks ago

Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.

[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, this is the best time to snapshot it, because even with the slop already there, the exponential increase that's about to happen will absolutely dwarf what's there now.