Hazel Cora ❆Dec 20
wow 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.

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@h what… The… All of recorded music history????
Show threadHazel Cora ❆
@yassie_j that’s on spotify at least. they say popularity 1 through 100 they have but popularity 0 is still missing some stuff (most songs have not been listened to at all, and its very hard to filter out whats even human made)
Dec 20 at 9:42pmWeb
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@h that’s a good chunk of music history at least! Very impressive
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@h I hope this includes the band Sleeptalk since I’m one of only about 300 listeners lmao
Show threadHazel Cora ❆Dec 20
@yassie_j たやまあすか and their 1 monthly listener will surely not be represented in this dataset 💔