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Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
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Jesus Christ they scraped 99.6% of all of spotify

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So music files means what I think it means right? MP3s or FLAC files? I wonder how long until this makes its way on to usenet.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago

No it's losssy files:

  • For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

  • For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.