Graham Sutherland / PolynomialDec 20

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Show threadCubeOfCheese
@gsuberland is this legal?
Dec 20 at 9:33pmWeb
Show threadliquidlampDec 20
@cubeofcheese @gsuberland just as soon as they train an AI model on it.
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Dec 21
@liquidlamp @cubeofcheese @gsuberland this fucked up timeline lol
Show threadLatte macchiato  Dec 20
@cubeofcheese @gsuberland in no way whatsoever lol
Show threadNikhil 🐧Dec 20
@cubeofcheese @gsuberland illegal only if you don't use it to train ai
Show threadMans RDec 20
@cubeofcheese @gsuberland Absolutely not.
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialDec 20
@cubeofcheese better question: is the cause noble?
Show threadhiphopheavenDec 20
@cubeofcheese @gsuberland of course no. I think it will end really bad for them
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialDec 20
@hiphopheaven @cubeofcheese given the rest of what they do I hardly think this is a meaningful escalation.