I fucking love annas archive.

Anna does seem rather insane though

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

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.

Mashup artist detected

Both. Per the SQL schema printed in the article, table track_audio_features has both fields tempo and key along with many other technicals. Worth checking out, it's near the bottom of the page.

BPM yes, keys I'm not so sure.

Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas

The article claims that they are:

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files).

They've released torrents of the metadata, and they plan to release the music files, but they haven't yet. They intend to start by offering the downloads as bulk torrents, but they're open to considering implementing the ability to download single songs in the future.

So in short, yes, but you can't download them yet

Record labels themselves would march on foot to burn down the archives

It says,

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)

[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)

[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)

[ ] Album art

[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)

Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.

Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox's settings)

Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!

They said this in the linked blog post:

A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale.

Seems like reason enough to choose to scrape Spotify to me.

Spotify has lossless now. Although if you're listening on anything with Bluetooth then you probably won't notice anyway.