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[–] 263 points 9 months ago (29 children)

That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?

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  • [–] 186 points 9 months ago (27 children)
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    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.

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    [–] 132 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS

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  • [–] [S] 43 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them

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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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    [–] 74 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!

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    [–] 52 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Is this new? Aren't most tracks already available in torrents?

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  • [–] 123 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    It's new insofar as this is one big scrape. About 300TB iirc.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago*

    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.

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    [–] 50 points 9 months ago

    My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    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

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    [–] 38 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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    [–] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's nothing compared to my old Napster collection

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    [–] 29 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit...

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Let's put it all on a Funkwhale server.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.

    Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.

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    [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this

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    [–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server

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    [–] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Wow this is so revolutionary.

    Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.

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