That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
Have they actually been indexed?
There is 200gb of just metadata
What I used to do is google the name of the album and append to it “cover itunes”. Usually I would find high quality images of the albums that way
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.
100%
…and Archive.org
And Wikipedia.
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
Shit me, 200gb in metadata, 2.2TB in cover art before we even touch a piece of music! Wild
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People are saying it’s 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
God damn! That’s essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?
Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.
Not released yet
what a beautiful, simple and well designed website
“address not found”
Get better DNS
Nah, checked Wikipedia. Germany is one of the countries that entirely blocks the site.
Luckily I live in Denmark, and Denmark doesn’t block the archive. So when I’m back home I’ll certainly be checking it out.
Not all of Germany. There is this one for example, works like a charm:
Download and seed seed seed
I would never bookmark such a site! [clicks bookmark button]
cue Padme
‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
Sadly my wallet is on time out
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.
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.
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.
You learn a lot more than if you were to just slap an epyc in a box. Pi will reach you about encoding and balancing resources. I still use everything I learnt and some of the gear like the terra master only reason I don’t use it anymore is because I got free server stuff from work.
At 100 now and it looks like I need to quadruple
40TB LOL. Where we’re going, we’re gonna need more space! Back to the Space, Part IV!
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.
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Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few 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 lossy stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
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.)
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.
How does it compare to 192 and 320 bps mp3?
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Thanks.
I hear the diff between 192 & 320 (probably 256 is enough but better safe than sorry I thought so that’s what I use) so 160 vorbis is very good but not totally perfect for me then.
I’d say in general it’s the same, but way lighter than 320 kbps mp3. It’s better than 192 kpbs mp3 and as good or better than 256 kbps mp3.
Am I losing my mind? All magnet links are metadata, no?
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
I got half a quesadilla and a shiny rock
You must be a very generous person, that’s worth way more than what dude asked for
You barter with what you have
Is this new? Aren’t most tracks already available in torrents?
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.
So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.
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.
I’d steal your music
If your Spotify popularity is not 0, you probably are in the scraped archive.
My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
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
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven’t found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
i need a subscribe button for this
Whoever knows the answer, or when one is developed, someone please ping us all in this thread? thanks mate
Chatgpt is recommending an IPFS Cluster but I suspect this doesn’t solve the problem completely.
I wonder how they are splitting it up in different torrents and how many.
They are splitting it up right? 😁
Direct stream may be phase 2
Anna’s the GOAT
Sounds more like the pirate queen.
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.
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
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Umm
Umm what? That I wasn’t happy I got charged three months for a service I repeatedly cancelled?
I think the confusion is that you basically said “Tidal lost me when they lost me.”
I canceled to shift my charge date originally. Then it became permanent
A customer can come back in the future. But probably not after this.
It sounds like they lost you in 3 months, not immediately.
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I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.
And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!
I tried Tidal but they have a glitch on their app where downloaded songs get stuck and playlists stop downloading. They’ve had a bug open about it for at least three years last I checked. It may sound niche, but I’m often traveling and use offline music regularly
That’s nothing compared to my old Napster collection
Fuck Lars.
Saw them live 3 times before that shit. Never listened to a single song since.
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit…
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
Let’s put it all on a Funkwhale server.
Sure, you set it up.
Dang. You called me out on my bullshit.
Well, I’ve set a funkwhale server up before and I’m not dealing with that bullshit again.
I suppose this explains why I keep having to move Funkwhale servers every few months because they keep shutting down (That and the usual “server costs outweighing the donation pot” issue).
I’ll chip in with the first TB…
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority. thinking of red.sh here
I don’t think many data hoarders are sitting on the AI generated stuff 😁
Wow this is so revolutionary.
Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.
Not this easily with accurate tags and art it hasn’t.
They more often than torrents do have the wrong tags when its not English music. Took me way too many emails to google music and Spotify before they stopped screaming at me with ALL CAPS on one album and before removing the dots after album track names (1. Track Name), not to mention the ones named TRACK 1, etc.
Uhh get on a real site and it has been.
Help me out. Where?
How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
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.
Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!
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.
You mean if they wipe their collection to make space. Private sites probably have better quality than Spotify.
No im saying they have so much storage I could see them having space to seed this.
