How much of that music is AI generated slob?
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A lot of it probably.
They have a breakdown of the data on their blog. If you scroll down to album releases by date, you can see a very sharp uptick in releases, with around ~2 million albums in 2019 to ~11 million albums in 2024.
They even make a comment on it likely being inflated by AI:
If we group albums by release year, we see that more and more new music is added to Spotify, a lot of it likely automatically generated: [...] The amount of procedurally and AI generated content makes it hard to find what is actually valuable.
You should watch this video:
The dark side of Spotify from Slightly Sociable.
It's about short AI music created for phone farms to steal royalties away from real artists. It's a whole business model and Spotify encourages this malicious practice as all those phones use premium to earn money faster, and 33% of that money goes to Spotify. Plus they do other illegal stuff like promote music from stake holder companies over other music.
Thanks for sharing the vid; that was insanely fascinating, even if a bit depressing.
What's even more depressing is that there isn't a proper alternative. Many music streaming services have their own flaws. A friend of mine recommended Deezer, as it has really high quality streams but that one is owned by a Russian oligarch.
Artists are paid the most with Apple music but Apple is a shit company as well. Streaming is all fucked, same with movies / shows.
If you want to support the artists, buy their music on Bandcamp. Musicians are having it hard, they need our support. They deserve our money. It's the pirate code: pirate from the mega corps and billionaires, support the little guys.
You thought you paid, for a choice. That's fucking hikarious.
Download all existing literature to build a library for preservation and you're called a pirate. Download all existing literature from aforementioned library to train an LLM and you're a tech innovator. What a strange world we live in.
If we're pirates then they're privateers, and I know which I respect less.
Hey let's create our own LLM or something that can pass as an LLM😏 maybe then we can get away with the pirating
Are you rich? Otherwise we'll still be arrested.
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As an artist I'm very happy to see my work archived in there. Any suggestions where I can submit my music directly to archives.
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want the link just so i can know how to avoid it i'm a good girl who does't steal totally.
I like that billboard linked directly to it
You forgot to administer head pats
This is a good thing honestly, fuck Spotify it ruined music as much as any single company/service could.
Not as much as Ticketmaster. I would love to be able to see shows, but I'd soon chew my tongue off than buy their nonsense, and fuck their affiliates too. When people stop buying this shit we can solve the problem.
People will not stop. The average person does not think that far ahead. This is where government is supposed to step in.
However, these existing efforts have some major issues:
Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.
Later...
We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
I must be kinda stupid, but it sounds to me like there's some double speak. "Only popular music gets preserved, so we preserved music by popularity"
It'd probably be more beneficial to read the article directly from Anna's Archive where they display plenty of graphs and infographics to make the data understandable. Unfortunately this article has none of that. The "over-focus on popular artists" is quite literally meaning they're only missing artists who aren't being listened to, most of which are probably AI anyway.
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
To be fair, the 10k is just a sample. The true amount is 86 million, about a quarter of all Spotify songs.
Put another way, for any random song a person listens to, there is a 99.6% likelihood that it is part of the archive. We expect this number to be higher if you filter to only human-created songs. Do remember though that the error bar on listens for popularity 0 is large.
For popularity=0, we ordered tracks by a secondary importance metric based on artist followers and album popularity, and fetched in descending order.
We have stopped here due to the long tail end with diminishing returns (700TB+ additional storage for minor benefit), as well as the bad quality of songs with popularity=0 (many AI generated, hard to filter).
Also it sounds like they had difficulty scraping some of the less popular songs and got them from somewhere else.
Ngl, it pisses me off that number 4 on the Top 10,000 list is "Clean Baby Sleep White Noise (Loopable)"
Most people still don’t know that their phones most likely already has a noise generator build in without any extra app (at least on iOS)
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Not that I can help out much with my already full measly 16TB of SSDs...
Anyway, noice!
Why so much SSD storage? Just get SSD's for you OS and games etc and get HDD's, maybe put them in a NAS. Much cheaper that SSD's. You don't need the speed for data storage.
Thanks, I know, I'm not new to the game. I just had prioritize absolute silence over cost/performance, since I live in 30 m2 and I can't stand the otherwise sweet buzzing of HDDs. I need absolute silence to be able to sleep, so I bought four 4TB Samsung 870 EVOs.
I am however planning to build an HDD rack with a RPi, which I then intend to keep in one of my closets in order to isolate the sound. For now, I have cages for eight. :)
Nice! I totally get it. Just some advice: if you build something for in your closet, make sure it stands on thick rubber feet / mat. Or make a cage suspend from elastic binders. Anything to avoid the vibrations to go into the wood/metal of the closet.
It's how I have my NAS, also in a closet (next to Tom Cruise)
Some sound isolation pads (soft foam with pointy bits) around it are also an option. Just make sure it gets enough air for cooling. If you need more fresh air from outside, use the silent Noctua fans, they have less air displacement but really are very silent.
Wow! Thanks for all the great advice! :D
Now I just need to figure out:
- shall I drill a hole in the bottom of the closet for the Ethernet and power cables?
- can I power the HDDs with a "detached" PSU that was originally meant to have inside a chassi? But then, the Pi doesn't have SATA connectors... But maybe I can find some extension card than goes on top of the GPIO pins? 🤔
That's pretty dope. Would you mind posting a photo or two of your 4xSSD setup? Also, what are they hooked up to, a mini PC?
Nope, they are hooked up to my retired gaming rig xD retired because my physical health makes it hard to sit in front of the PC and game 😭 poor RTX 3080 just sitting there...
Anyway, here you go! There is room for five more 2.5 inch SSDs in the back. I've even seen somebody mod this chassi to hold 22 HDDs he he.
Oh, and the software part: 4 x 4TB drives made into one 16TB logical volume with LVM, on top off which there is a LUKS container for whenever my home is raided (not that encryption helps legally speaking, unless you have plausible deniability...). I figured I don't need redundancy with SSDs and none of the data is really anything that I couldn't just torrent again. Maybe I'll do an offline backup of them down the road.
Regarding encryption, I'm no lawyer, but I always figure if I were ever wanted by the authorities, it would at least give me a choice whether or not to comply. On the other hand, anything that's not encrypted may as well already be compromised. The other thing encryption buys you is peace of mind if and when you ever sell those drives on the secondary market.
Thanks for the valuable input! :)
I always encrypt all my drives - external or internal - because at the very least, I have nothing to loose with today's computing power. The overhead isn't noticeable for me once the drives are decrypted, which takes two seconds with my Ryzen 5800 x3d.
Regarding what you said specifically about the peace of mind that it gives me if and when I were to sell the drives: YES. encryption can even be used as a method of securely ~~wiping~~ scrambling content.
Yup, and for SSDs specifically, I've read online that once you've stored info on the device unencrypted, then down the road you use a software tool like shred, there's no way to guarantee nothing is left in the clear because of wear leveling, so it's best to always encrypt them before we start storing anything on them.
Just suspend overnight, it's what I do when drives or fans annoy me.
That's also a good idea, but I want to seed 24/7 🙃
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