While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.
I don’t understand the concern, domain names are cheap and easy to get, they can just keep using new ones. Why does it matter if they lose the ones they have?
Piratebay used to do the domain dance all the time back in the day (and maybe still do).
It’s more about users being able to find them again. If they lose all domain names, it becomes difficult to figure out which are the new ones.
Fmhy.net usually has a working domain of AA
So does Wikipedia
This.
It’s factual, public, relevant info, it can and should be on Wikipedia.
Anna’s Archive when they find out piracy is illegal 🙀
The pirate bay is still able to find domains so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe this will prompt some people to learn to use Tor
Is TOR not completely owned by the feds? I remember even back in the silk road days people were saying the FBI owns every endpoint. Is TOR still practical? I truly don’t know I’m asking for input.
If enough people set endpoints, then the feds will own a fewer proportion of the total. AKA: we have to be the change we want to see in the world.
Yeah but even if you could get it down to like 50% why would anyone want to take that risk? Idk I might be misunderstanding something about how TOR works but it seems no more anonymous than the clearweb from what I’ve heard.
I’m not sure you are fully aware of the Tor threat model. The exit node is not supposed to be specifically trusted.
In this scenario it wouldn’t matter because the idea is to use it as a way to access a website that would otherwise be accessed over clearnet but has become inaccessible. But if they made an onion site endpoints wouldn’t be used anyway afaik since the traffic doesn’t leave the network. Now that I’m thinking about it there might be some issues with practicality doing it this way if they have a big volume of traffic, but there are options for routing around censorship that don’t involve DNS.
I don’t understand this comment, can you elaborate? Why wouldn’t the endpoints be used? This is probably my ignorance but I thought all traffic was routed through the onion network and then eventually to the end device, but all that extra routing can’t help you if the Feds control the last stop before whatever server you’re trying to contact… are you saying that if a site is entirely hosted on TOR then no information makes it to an endpoint?
are you saying that if a site is entirely hosted on TOR then no information makes it to an endpoint?
Basically yeah. My understanding is that exit nodes are special and using them is a vulnerability, but you only use exit nodes to access clearnet sites from Tor, and you are less vulnerable if you aren’t doing that and rather going to sites with .onion urls. Which, unfortunately I can’t find one for this website, but I’m thinking they’d probably consider making one if they can’t maintain any clearnet domains anymore.
I don’t think that’s true and a very cursory google suggests (to me at least) that im right and I don’t have time to parse a bunch of sources right now. So idk if anyone else could chime in with specific technical details or a source id appreciate it.
https://onionservices.torproject.org/technology/properties/
Usually, whenever a Tor user is surfing around, their connection exits the Tor network at some point to reach a destination on the internet.
But with Onion Services, the communication from one point to another happens entirely inside the Tor network, all the time.
K now someone make a script that compares your Spotify library to the torrent and downloads all songs please…
Sure but, again, the files are in a relatively low quality.
This oh this, please
That’s actually what i am waiting for
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The stuff on YouTube is already lossy and it becomes more lossy when you transcode it.
I really don’t see this as being useful for anyone outside of hard archivest. The bitrates are pretty trash. I guess if you just a setup with an incredible amount of music no matter what, this is for you. IMHO the meta data is worth more than these lower quality sound files although we have meta data for what’s out there now.
Outside of that here is what and how they are going to release. I’m guessing this drop was their “popular” track drop. From their site:
For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
The point of AA is the archiving.
Anyways, from a listening perspective, 160kbit vorbis is audibly lossless I think, and there are many songs on here that are not possible to find elsewhere. For popular songs you want, yeah, just download the Flac elsewhere.
Most of my mp3s from back in the day are 128kbit, so 160 is an upgrade for me.
There never before was the option to build an opensource Spotify replacement where you don’t need a large personal collection. Now there is.
Are there good tools to do this with a personal collection? Like get actual recomendations and such based on tags? I have a shitload of digitalmusic (the large majoroty is even actually legit), and I recently went through and made sure it all hadproper artist/track/album/etc tags.
I just set up a music only Jellyfin user on my local server but I would mind a bit of personalized algorythm from my own library.
I use Plex and the Plexamp mobile app for my personal music collection. Ripped everything myself (well some Bandcamp albums too).
I can only speak to what a 75kbps mp3 sounds like, but unless Opus is like 3x+ better at compression, it’s going to sound like complete dogshit.
https://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm#list10 via https://opus-codec.org/comparison/
It is that much better.
I don’t know what 75 kbps opus sounds like, but I can tell you how 32 kbps sounds. Versus mp3 at that bitrate, it sounds actually listenable, while mp3 sounds like you’re underwater.
All things considered, the Spotify songs probably sound fine at 75.
I encode my music to opus 96kbps for my phone, and it sounds great. I can’t tell the difference between that and the original on Sony xm3s.
Opus @ 160 kbps is like MP3 at 320 kbps IIRC.
Where? I checked the torrents JSON mentioned there and there’s no text match on ‘spotify’… did it get removed or am I looking at the wrong JSON?
I am seeing the same thing, even within an hour of the article being posted.
