Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
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Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Sadly my wallet is on time out
It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven't found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Wasn’t all of this shit already available as torrents?
No.
Not everything got torrented after music streamers came into prominence. (Though chances are pretty good you could rip an MP3 off Youtube for whatever you're looking for.)
That's nothing compared to my old Napster collection
Fuck Lars.
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority. thinking of red.sh here
I don't think many data hoarders are sitting on the AI generated stuff 😁
Let's put it all on a Funkwhale server.
Sure, you set it up.
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
Have they actually been indexed?
People are saying it's 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
God damn! That's essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?
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.
Not released yet
cue Padme
‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
Anna's the GOAT
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossless stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)
It's not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That's actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
All tracks within the top 99.6% of listens are supposed to be high quality
Is this new? Aren't most tracks already available in torrents?
Not mine, because I’m not famous enough for people to pirate my music lol. It would be flattering for me to be included in this batch of scraped music.
I'd steal your music
If your Spotify popularity is not 0, you probably are in the scraped archive.
Yep, most of tracks were already available on "various" sources, but this time they directly scraped the whole Spotify database.
It's really nice from them to backup Spotify database on a distributed system, and for free ! This ensure Spotify business won't be endanger in case of critical hardware failure.
So nice of them to help with Spotify's off-site backup.
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not sure why you want that much music most of it garbage. i would like some of the podcasts that people dont post anywhere else though. all hail the data hoaders.
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