If we're pirates then they're privateers, and I know which I respect less.

Hey let's create our own LLM or something that can pass as an LLM😏 maybe then we can get away with the pirating

I don't know about Anna's Archive but I suggest uploading it to Internet Archive.

You could provide a torrent of it directly.

To be fair, the 10k is just a sample. The true amount is 86 million, about a quarter of all Spotify songs.

Put another way, for any random song a person listens to, there is a 99.6% likelihood that it is part of the archive. We expect this number to be higher if you filter to only human-created songs. Do remember though that the error bar on listens for popularity 0 is large.

For popularity=0, we ordered tracks by a secondary importance metric based on artist followers and album popularity, and fetched in descending order.

We have stopped here due to the long tail end with diminishing returns (700TB+ additional storage for minor benefit), as well as the bad quality of songs with popularity=0 (many AI generated, hard to filter).

Also it sounds like they had difficulty scraping some of the less popular songs and got them from somewhere else.

It'd probably be more beneficial to read the article directly from Anna's Archive where they display plenty of graphs and infographics to make the data understandable. Unfortunately this article has none of that. The "over-focus on popular artists" is quite literally meaning they're only missing artists who aren't being listened to, most of which are probably AI anyway.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Most people still don’t know that their phones most likely already has a noise generator build in without any extra app (at least on iOS)

If it makes you feel any better noise is hard to compress so it costs Spotify more I imagine

Not as much as Ticketmaster. I would love to be able to see shows, but I'd soon chew my tongue off than buy their nonsense, and fuck their affiliates too. When people stop buying this shit we can solve the problem.

I'm not sure about that. They only recently removed their music from Spotify and this archive certainly took a good while to create.

I bought all of their albums on Bandcamp for $1 when they had a deal going.That was to good to pass up.

Also got a couple albums on vinyl 🤟

Feels good to have sent some money they way after they dared to ditch Spotift 🙏

A lot of it probably.

They have a breakdown of the data on their blog. If you scroll down to album releases by date, you can see a very sharp uptick in releases, with around ~2 million albums in 2019 to ~11 million albums in 2024.

They even make a comment on it likely being inflated by AI:

If we group albums by release year, we see that more and more new music is added to Spotify, a lot of it likely automatically generated: [...] The amount of procedurally and AI generated content makes it hard to find what is actually valuable.

Why so much SSD storage? Just get SSD's for you OS and games etc and get HDD's, maybe put them in a NAS. Much cheaper that SSD's. You don't need the speed for data storage.