Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents
Submitted 8 hours ago by commander@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
commander@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
potpotato@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Sadly my wallet is on time out
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 48 seconds ago
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
errer@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there’s people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they’re succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
People are saying it’s 300TB but this link isn’t 300GB why?
randomuser38529@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
cue Padme ‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
morto@piefed.social 3 hours ago
It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
bizzle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven’t found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
i need a subscribe button for this
blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
hietsu@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughy the quality level of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so little listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossless stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
All tracks within the top 99.6% of listens are supposed to be high quality
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
It’s not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That’s actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s nothing compared to my old Napster collection
generallynonsensical@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Fuck Lars.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
Let’s put it all on a Funkwhale server.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sure, you set it up.
SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t think many data hoarders are sitting on the AI generated stuff 😁
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Anna’s the GOAT
planish@sh.itjust.works 10 minutes ago
Sounds more like the pirate queen.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 56 minutes ago
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Is this new? Aren’t most tracks already available in torrents?
borokov@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yep, most of tracks were already available on “various” sources, but this time they directly scraped the whole Spotify database.
It’s really nice from them to backup Spotify database on a distributed system, and for free ! This ensure Spotify business won’t be endanger in case of critical hardware failure.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.
JASN_DE@feddit.org 8 hours ago
It’s new insofar as this is one big scrape. About 300TB iirc.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
300tb is a lot, but its kind of crazy to think this entire company only needs 300tb storage arrays to function. I wonder how they handle things internally. I would imagine at least 1 backup server ready to go in HA. I wonder if they have multiple regions across the country that also serves up the same setup.
navigator@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
Not mine, because I’m not famous enough for people to pirate my music lol. It would be flattering for me to be included in this batch of scraped music.
FatVegan@leminal.space 4 hours ago
I’d steal your music
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
If your Spotify popularity is not 0, you probably are in the scraped archive.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 7 hours ago
I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can't imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it'll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim "preservation", I do have to question the motives of stuff like this...
Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, the people who are racing to download it all want to use it for profit. AI companies, companies that run databases, etc.
Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I mean, it seems like the perfect avenue to replicate Stremio / Kodi but for music
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s a good thing if you are smart enough to understand that AI isn’t going away. Universal bought udio, the “legal” variant of the dataset will be used to train models, only they will be closed source, censored and come with a ToS that gives all the rights from the generated music to the record companies from the get go.
At least this gives open source a chance.
paper_moon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I guess it’s easier packaged in a torrent rather than individual downloads, but I do question why anyone would need this if all they were doing was training AI, as everything is already available on YouTube for free. You don’t need to hack a company to get the audio. Now if you’re a human trying to actually listen to the songs, obviously the Spotify torrent will sound much better, assuming the hack captured the higher quality audio streams from Spotify.
llama@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Same it seems useless to me. The real value is knowing how songs relate to each other in terms of being played before/after other songs, and that’s only available via internal datasets that they could never scrape anyway.
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Unless…?
Cloudstash@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
[deleted]Telorand@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Everybody starts somewhere. Few come out the gate being Depeche Mode. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth the struggle to get better.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Wasn’t all of this shit already available as torrents?
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 hour ago
You could hand pluck grains of rice out of a field or just steal a 25lb bag.
Which would you prefer?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
When the 25lb bag is mostly weavels?
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 minutes ago
In case of this, definitely the grains
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No.
Not everything got torrented after music streamers came into prominence.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Ripping Mp3s off YouTube Music Videos is without a doubt the worst method of piracy I’ve ever heard of.
Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
not sure why you want that much music most of it garbage. i would like some of the podcasts that people dont post anywhere else though. all hail the data hoaders.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!