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

submitted 1 month 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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[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 110 points 1 month ago

After Meta scraped all their books they have the perfect defense now. All they have to say is "we're training a music AI" and they're apparently untouchable.

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 29 points 1 month ago

Well, they have to say "we're training a music AI" while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don't win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn't illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.