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.

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@gsuberland This is so cool.

Anna's archive, like The Internet Archive is doing Good Things to archive the internet, slightly differently. While TIA builds their own infra and storage, AA stores the collected archives distributively using torrents.

So if you have some spare GB/TBs of drive space and a headless torrent node (I use #deluge its quite awesome), go to https://annas-archive.org/torrents and seed some low-seed torrents. Their selector even right sizes the torrents to fit your free space.

Torrents - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

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@tezoatlipoca @gsuberland as the site seems to be offline due to copyright problem, here is a backup.
https://archive.ph/HQP3T

Maybe add the link to the original post in addition.

(Edit: Not down, but DNS blocked in Germany (Telekom))