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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)
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[–] 86 points 9 months ago (10 children)

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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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    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.)

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    How does it compare to 192 and 320 bps mp3?

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