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[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

People are saying it's 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

God damn! That's essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 hours ago

Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago

Not released yet