That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
None of these are audio torrents.
That's not released yet.
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
Sadly my wallet is on time out
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit...
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it's just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven't found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
Is this new? Aren't most tracks already available in torrents?
Yep, most of tracks were already available on "various" sources, but this time they directly scraped the whole Spotify database.
It's really nice from them to backup Spotify database on a distributed system, and for free ! This ensure Spotify business won't be endanger in case of critical hardware failure.
So nice of them to help with Spotify's off-site backup.
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossy stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
It's not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That's actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
Anna's the GOAT
Sounds more like the pirate queen.
Wow this is so revolutionary.
Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.
Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said "It's like Spotify 10 years ago." as if that's a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.
Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.
Already done. It's called Torrent Streaming and lets you stream-on-demand anything that exists as a torrent without having to torrent anything yourself.
A client that can stream these Spotify torrents with an interface that works like Spotify (low bar, I know) will be awesome, but also including a database to match songs to artists so users can send money directly to the artists they listen to will make it revolutionary.
Wasn’t all of this shit already available as torrents?
You could hand pluck grains of rice out of a field or just steal a 25lb bag.
Which would you prefer?
In case of this, definitely the grains.
Most of this rice is not worth stealing :D
Let's put it all on a Funkwhale server.
Sure, you set it up.
Dang. You called me out on my bullshit.
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