With the recent "spotify hack", can one now easily get songs from that hack? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago by amos@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So, there was a "spotify hack" recently, from Anna's Archive, as we all know. My question is:

Has the songs from that hack been made available? Can one easily get these songs? Say, I want song X from artist Y. Can I search and download?

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[-] amos@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

Ya, I plan to do it that way. But spotify quality is enough for me, and if one could get songs easily by just searching/downloading from that hack, it would make my life much easier. I suppose the spotify hack also has more songs than soulseek.

[-] rozodru@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

I've actually had the opposite success rate going with soulseek. I've been able to find tracks or artists that simply aren't on spotify. For eacmple a lot of Japanese bands that I follow simply don't release full albums on the regular. usually just singles and EPs here and there. I rarely find them on spotify but on soulseek they're on there within the day of them releasing the song. some with other obscure stuff. The soulseek user base is primarily made up of audiophiles so you're going to find a lot more and a lot better quality stuff.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of Japanese stuff on nyaa. They even have a lossless audio section. Lossy is usually 128k or 320k mp3. I do lossy myself, but I encode to m4a low-complexity 192k (the highest option it has). So I grab lossless and encode to my settings, then use mp3tag for perfect metadata control (free for you Windows guys; $30 on Mac). Then it's a unique file. Can still be sonically identified, but so can the tracks you legit ripped from CD, so that doesn't matter.

Also collect Japanese music, mostly j-rock.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Same, i have lossy compression; but I favour opus.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

The quality that they archived is not the same as what you're used to listening to on Spotify, just fyi... 96kbps is going to sound like straight dirty water trash

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

96kbps is quite good sounding compression. You may hear a difference with the original, but in most cases you'll have to focus very hard to hear it. As far as I know what they archived was not MP3 compressed but rather opus or ogg.

[-] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

The rip by annas archive is 170kbps ogg for most of the songs (most meaning listening probability, not quantifying numbers.).
Furthermore 96kbps is more than enough for casual listeners. You may hear a difference but most people wont care tbh.