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[-] Foni@lemmy.zip 195 points 1 month ago

If they get caught, they can always say it was to train an AI model

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 39 points 1 month ago

I'd be so happy if they tried this in court and got away with it

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

This strategy really depends on their ability to bribe President Trump for a pardon.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not necessarily. There is precedent, they'd just need to make a credible-enough attempt to actually do this with the data (and get the right judge/jury).

[-] amzd@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago
[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

This is interesting, thanks!

Don't know that I would be active enough for what.cd, but I am drawn to archiving, lossless files and comprehensive metadata.

I ripped my hundreds of CDs to FLAC and spent a good while organizing before Spotify came along with its temptations. Have started buying again on Bandcamp lately and been thinking about spinning up jellyfin.

[-] xvertigox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Musicbrainz Picard + Emby/Jellyfin is a great combo. Emby servers double as navidrome servers so you can use myriad apps to listen.

News like this make me sad. I have not been able to replicate the amazing experience I had with Audiogalaxy or Soulseek. By looking for things you liked you could then search what the people who had that music also had lying around and I discovered so much great stuff that way. My taste in music is extremely eclectic but since I've been limited to Spotify, I am rarely discovering weird music anymore. Fuck corporations.

[-] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I have not been able to replicate the amazing experience I had with Audiogalaxy or Soulseek. [...] My taste in music is extremely eclectic but since I've been limited to Spotify, I am rarely discovering weird music anymore. Fuck corporations.

Soulseek is still alive

I know. I haven't been able to get it working, though.

[-] Finofilipino@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I just tried it and remembered why it wouldn't work. It requires me to pass through a port in my router. That's something I just don't do anymore. The internet is a scary place these days, full of lawyers and other bad actors.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The treasure is still out there—we have merely lost the map.

[-] thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 month ago

Damn, I wish I could afford to buy 300TB of local data storage.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago

Looks like you can get refurbished 26TB drives for about £340, so 12 of those. PCIe -> 6x SATA adaptors run you about £40 each. Molex to SATA power adaptors about £5. So £4200 will let you store all that with a bit left over for postage and some duct tape to make a storage bay out of the boxes it all came in.

I'd probably want a few more drives for RAID6 and some hot spares, but if you go JBoD then at least you can just download the torrent again ;-)

[-] thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Yep, completely unobtainable.

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[-] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 month ago

If only I had a spare 300TB of storage

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I do have access to 300tb but do I want to use it for music?

[-] thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

What percentage of it would be something you actually enjoyed listening to?

[-] xvertigox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Archiving/preservation is separate to consuming the content.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Precisely. This isn't for people who want to use it. This is for people who want to clone it.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Fyi just to support Annas you can go and tell them how much space you have to spare and generate a few magnet links for you.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Tbh they're probably fucked now they've painted a huge target on their backs.

[-] xvertigox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I reckon so, they were pretty low profile before and e-books and journal articles likely don't draw the same audience as a huge open library of music.

[-] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Thanks Luffy and the rest of the straw hats as they fight the world government

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago

I know there's a lot of music out there, but I would have guessed the number was still less than 86,000,000 on Spotify.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

I was actually thinking that number is kinda low.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

I mean, if one song was released every 10 seconds, it'd take 28 years to hit 86 million songs. That sounds like a lot of Spotify.

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I read a bit of Anna's article and if I remember correctly there are something like 256 million tracks on Spotify. Mind you this includes things like white noise tracks.

But 86 million tracks represent 99.6% of listens or something like that. Most tracks don't get played much if at all

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Hmmmm, I need a new nas.........

[-] mtpender@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

🏴‍☠️"Drink up me hartys! YO-HO!"🏴‍☠️

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

It's both a *Ho*, *Ho*, *Ho* and a *Yarrr* moment.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

Holy shit! Marry Christians!

[-] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Does spotify already have lossless? Because fuck mp3s for archiving.

[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Spotify has flac for premium users. The releases are ogg.

[-] msage@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Great, because I remember checking years before, and they still didn't have lossless. Finally they caught up.

Still won't pay.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

"Relatively popular songs are stored in their original 160kbit/s OGG Vorbis quality, while the rest use 75kbit/s "

I don't know OGG files but if that is comparable to MP3s of the same quality then it is all pretty shitty quality.

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

75kbit OGG Vorbis is like maybe 128kb mp3, while 160kb Vorbis is indistinguishable from CD quality for most people on most equipment.

[-] msage@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

But MY equipment is special

/s

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago
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[-] Shameless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Damn, I'd be open to if somone could host this, I'd actually pay a monthly subscription to an individual rather than spotify

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That was my first thought as well

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