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Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)

submitted 6 days ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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Jesus Christ they scraped 99.6% of all of spotify

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 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.