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Anna’s Archive - Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)

submitted 5 months ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 160 points 5 months ago

damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe..

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I fucking love annas archive.

~~Anna does seem rather insane though~~

Edit: I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub

[-] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago

C'mon you gotta say why im curious

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

iirc her writings gave me the impression that she basically worships communism and famous soviet communist leaders in a vaguely religious way. I can go look again later and elaborate. It could just be the language barrier that gave me that impression.

Edit: I was misremembering Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, as Anna of Anna's Archive. Oops

[-] degen@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

Idk if I'd expect much less from a legendary pirate

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 5 months ago

Down with the bourgeoisie

Eat the rich

Sodomize the land-owners

Impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket

Literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs

[-] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Huh, weird. Where can I find the writings?

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I went to look for a link for you and found that I was misremembering. I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, one of the libraries that Anna's Archive indexes. In case you're curious about her, here's an archive of her personal page on Sci-Hub

[-] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Oh wow, thanks for going and checking for me. Good luck out there friend.

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