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commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

www.soundguys.com

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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

www.soundguys.com

commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
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    Based

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    🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊

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    I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐

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      “Condemn” or “condone”? While similar sounding, those two words have basically opposite meaning. Yay English!

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        Don’t even get started on our homophones. XD

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          Dude it’s 2025 you can’t use that word anymore

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      I think you’re looking for this page.

      • utopiah@lemmy.world
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        1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.

        Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.

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          https://http.cat/

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Error HTTP 451

          genius

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    How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?

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      On their torrent page it’s explained more but it’s broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you’re willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded “blob”.

      I don’t really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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        Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!

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      Given some of the collections I’ve seen on private trackers I’d say there is going to be quite a few seeding this in its entirety.

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    I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?

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    99% of the “original” Spotify’s contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.

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      They break this down on their page, but while that’s certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.

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    But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?

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      In between

      It’s not in MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis and I don’t have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.

      They claim usual people can’t tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I’m picky so I know I’ll notice something.

      Remembering t this is Anna’s archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.

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        I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don’t know I’ve moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.

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          Yes, Ogg Vorbis’s sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That’s why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with popularity = 0 opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files with popularity > 0.

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      Spotify has bitrate options

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        They’re talking about the files Anna’s archive is torrenting.

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    Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said “It’s like Spotify 10 years ago.” as if that’s a bad thing.

    Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.

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      I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.

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        And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!

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    BLESSED

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    Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!

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    Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS

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      40TB LOL. Where we’re going, we’re gonna need more space! Back to the Space, Part IV!

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      I’m building my first Linux setup and have a NAS planned out. I’m so stoked. I got a raspberry pi kit from my dad as an Xmas gift yesterday.

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        I also used a raspberry pi (5). People here will advise against it but for me it’s been working fine so far. I can stream 4K with Jellyfin on my local network just fine. Read/write speeds aren’t great but good enough for me. I used a Pi hat with 5x SATA ports and I have 5x 8TB HDDs in a custom 3D printed enclosure and I’m using ZFS RAID z1. No complaints yet.

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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

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        Sadly my wallet is on time out

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        The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/

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          Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.

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            Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.

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    That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?

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      cue Padme

      ‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’

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    Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit…

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      90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects

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    That’s nothing compared to my old Napster collection

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      Fuck Lars.

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        Saw them live 3 times before that shit. Never listened to a single song since.

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    Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this

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      data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority. thinking of red.sh here

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        I don’t think many data hoarders are sitting on the AI generated stuff 😁

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