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Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml
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Jesus Christ they scraped 99.6% of all of spotify

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[–] 14 points 8 months ago

Wow, that's a lot of effort

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    This is really cool. I hope it doesn't get them into trouble with the copyright Nazis though...

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    That's really cool!

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Nice work

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So music files means what I think it means right? MP3s or FLAC files? I wonder how long until this makes its way on to usenet.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago

    No it's losssy files:

    • For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

    • For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

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