We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.
This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.
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.
Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?
Both. Per the SQL schema printed in the article, table
track_audio_featureshas both fields tempo and key along with many other technicals. Worth checking out, it’s near the bottom of the page.BPM yes, keys I’m not so sure.
Yes, and it hasn’t been easy to dig up until recently. There were a few ways to search the “hidden” metadata fields that Spotify uses internally. But it definitely hasn’t been easy or straightforward.
Those hidden fields are how Spotify recommends similar artists. You have a few bands on repeat with specific instruments, chord progressions, and singer vocal range? Gee, maybe you’ll enjoy other bands that are similar to that…
300TB
Now make it streamable and make a stremio-like music client 🤞
Does this make Anna’s Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED
Does anyone see the torrent links?
It says,
The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:
[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)
[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)
[ ] Album art
[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)
Yeah, I saw that and assumed they’d be torrents of the metadata.
I didn’t find it in the blog post but it’s listed in the website https://annas-archive.org/torrents/spotify
Perfect. I’m downloading it to seed!
Dns blocked in germany. fun.
Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox’s settings)
I cannot fathom the legal fees that will be incurred if they release 99.6% of Spotify to the public for free. Holy fucking shit.
Maybe they could say they’re AI. Apparently copyright infringement’s legal then.
Yeah they’re definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I’m all for them releasing the data
Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl
holy fuck
“Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we’ll never pay for Spotify again”
Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!
This is such important work o7
Is that ALL off the songs?
I got 10tb I’ll throw at a few slices of this.
more like “backify”. seriously!
