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

submitted 5 months 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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[-] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 months ago

I cannot fathom the legal fees that will be incurred if they release 99.6% of Spotify to the public for free. Holy fucking shit.

[-] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah they're definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I'm all for them releasing the data

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

Have to find them first

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