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.

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No one can tell the difference beyond 320kbps

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