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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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“Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we’ll never pay for Spotify again”
Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!
holy fuck
Ok, how do we download this?
Step 1: Buy £6,000 worth of identical hard drives and a motherboard with 16 SATA ports. Or £12,000 worth and a RAID 1 server rig. Or £24,000 and RAID 6
You can get PCI cards to add more sata ports, they don’t all need to be on the motherboard
Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl
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.
Have to find them first
Yeah they’re definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I’m all for them releasing the data
Maybe they could say they’re AI. Apparently copyright infringement’s legal then.
Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.
Honestly, this is the best time to snapshot it, because even with the slop already there, the exponential increase that’s about to happen will absolutely dwarf what’s there now.
Is that ALL off the songs?
Does this make Anna’s Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED
Dns blocked in germany. fun.
It’s probably blocked by your particular ISP, not every German ISP.
Simply choose a private DNS server like mullvad,quad,etc. and it should work…
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
From the mega thread here
Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox’s settings)
After Meta scraped all their books they have the perfect defense now. All they have to say is “we’re training a music AI” and they’re apparently untouchable.
Well, they have to say “we’re training a music AI” while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don’t win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn’t illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.
Often and increasingly they are not bothering with the discretion part anymore.
This is such important work o7
damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe…
I fucking love annas archive. Anna does seem rather insane though
C’mon you gotta say why im curious
iirc her writings gave me the impression that she basically worships communism and famous soviet communist leaders in a vaguely religious way. I can go look again later and elaborate. It could just be the language barrier that gave me that impression.
Down with the bourgeoisie
Eat the rich
Sodomize the land-owners
Impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket
Literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs
…i mean some of that’s pretty extreme but she has a point with tenet number five…
Idk if I’d expect much less from a legendary pirate
Huh, weird. Where can I find the writings?
I went to look for a link for you and found that I was misremembering. I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, one of the libraries that Anna’s Archive indexes. In case you’re curious about her, here’s an archive of her personal page on Sci-Hub
300TB
Does anyone see the torrent links?
It says,
The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:
[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)
[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)
[ ] Album art
[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)
Yeah, I saw that and assumed they’d be torrents of the metadata.
I didn’t find it in the blog post but it’s listed in the website https://annas-archive.org/torrents/spotify
I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.
No one can tell the difference beyond 320kbps
…depends on the material; i’ve consistently double-blinded very obvious differences at 320 VBR vs lossless and my ears are far, far from golden…
Yeah but until two months ago Spotify was 24kbps
They were trying to keep file sizes down.
Spotify claims to offer lossless quality on much of their catalog; is this claim false or is there something more I’m missing here?
That’s for premium accounts, which they probably aren’t scraping with. And I think it’s still not FLAC quality
Spotify has lossless now. Although if you’re listening on anything with Bluetooth then you probably won’t notice anyway.
well bluetooth always adds additional compression, so it could still make a difference
They said this in the linked blog post:
A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale.
Seems like reason enough to choose to scrape Spotify to me.
And Spetify’s catalogue is the broadest too.
