Wow, that's a lot of effort
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
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This is really cool. I hope it doesn't get them into trouble with the copyright Nazis though...
That's really cool!
Nice work
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.
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.