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

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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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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nice sounds similar to what I do. I bought Unraid because everyone always suggested it. No regrets. It really makes things simple and have only had minor problems (usually related to docker). I had a HDD fail and recovery was easy (besides the 18 hours of rebuild). But the drive is emulated during repair so no real downtime.

Family photos I use cloud storage for. I could probably get away with just doing local because I do hate that I'm sure they are being used to train AI. But I'd have to do off-site storage somewhere anyway. Parity drives don't really do well in the "fire" scenario. Don't want to have any risk of losing photos of my daughter growing up.

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