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Backing up Spotify - Anna's archive (annas-archive.li)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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Anna archive continues it's awesome work.

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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Normally you're mostly right, but in this case I have to agree that lossy existence is better than lossless absence. 300TB puts it at the upper limit of pro-sumer capacity, but it's still doable from a personal archive perspective. If you went FLAC lossless, though, you're looking at 3-6PB. That quantity is almost completely unattainable by hobbyists, and presents challenges even for enterprise entities. This archive is the "photo of the original document" for the collection. It's not optimal, and there's a lot of room for improvement, but the alternative is to just not do it at all

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I dont thinm we need people to be able to download the entire thing. There should be a viable way to partially download the torrent and archive based on your storage availability.

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

    I'd argue that no one is gonna be archiving 300tb either though and will likely be picking and choosing which files to download from the torrents.

    What I don't know is if this is how Spotify is storing this music on their end or if they have some other lossless source they pull from. I know Deezer has flacs available for most stuff and mp3 320 (I think) for what isn't lossless.

    Not many hobbyists are going to dedicate that much space to bad quality audio, or even have that much space to begin with.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Eh - maybe - there are definitely hoarders with the ability to absorb 300TB. They're not common, but they do exist. There are probably close to zero hoarders that could spare 3PB, especially for a collection that they won't listen to a majority of. It's like saying that it isn't worth digitizing wax tube recordings because the source is so low quality. If preservation is the goal, anything is better than nothing.

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