That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
100%
...and Archive.org
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
Sadly my wallet is on time out
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
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.
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.
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
Is this new? Aren't most tracks already available in torrents?
Yep, most of tracks were already available on "various" sources, but this time they directly scraped the whole Spotify database.
It's really nice from them to backup Spotify database on a distributed system, and for free ! This ensure Spotify business won't be endanger in case of critical hardware failure.
So nice of them to help with Spotify's off-site backup.
It's new insofar as this is one big scrape. About 300TB iirc.
300tb is a lot, but its kind of crazy to think this entire company only needs 300tb storage arrays to function. I wonder how they handle things internally. I would imagine at least 1 backup server ready to go in HA. I wonder if they have multiple regions across the country that also serves up the same setup.
They need other 300TB to store all the ads.
Likely cloned Netflix's "netflix in a box" design, where they drop a large 200TB+ NAS in thousands of different CDN datecenters with their most popular content cached so that total traffic is minimal across the internet at large.
Spotify mainly being music with very little video likely makes this even easier.
My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven't found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Anna's the GOAT
Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said "It's like Spotify 10 years ago." as if that's a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
That's nothing compared to my old Napster collection
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit...
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it's just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
Let's put it all on a Funkwhale server.
Sure, you set it up.
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.
Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.
I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server
Wow this is so revolutionary.
Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.
I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can't imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it'll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim "preservation", I do have to question the motives of stuff like this...
Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.
I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐
I think you're looking for this page.
1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.
Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
