• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    5 hours ago

    The data they compiled is really cool.

    If reading the chart right, the genera with the most artists is opera.

    Even if they didn’t have the music files, the analysis on the metadata is insane.

    Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky an insane move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them, but also fuck Sony for locking art behind shitty contracts that forces these kind of projects to exist.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky an insane move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them

      Let’s be honest: Everybody is trying to go after Annas Archive. Every book publisher wants to get them, the US government, too and it really doesn’t matter if every music publisher wants them also. I hope that they are based in a country where the western systems can’t get them

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s a wild move admitting that they are the source of pirated content for music here.

      We don’t need Anna’s Archive to go under as a result of Sony going after them because of this…

      • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        They have had a dozen or more lawsuits/police actions against them. They are already enemy #1 in piracy terms, so I expect they are okay leaning into it and doing more good for the world.

  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    11 hours ago

    This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.

    Does this mean the MusicBrainz database will soon go from 5 million to 186 million tracks?

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    31·
    11 hours ago

    I’ll strongly suggest to take out all the cheaply AI generated music from this “back up” and save themselves some space.

  • lietuva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 hours ago

    There’s definitely gonna be some crazy guy who will but this on their server and stream it to their phones lol

        • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          don’t ask me, I don’t know specifically how it works. I just know with a premium spotify account it’ll give you 320kbps mp3s, without, you’re limited to 128kbps. Sets the album artwork and the tags automatically, it’s great.

          • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            If I recall correctly, Spotify streams ogg vorbis—not mp3, so that would be a transcode.

            • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
              3·
              6 hours ago

              well, there is an option for “raw media download”, so I’m assuming turning that on will get you the .ogg files you seek if that’s important to you. I honestly don’t care that much as 320kbps .mp3s sound as good as anything else to me.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        AFAIK: Yes. But it’s supposedly a pain to set up, so I’ll never know the difference.

        • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
          71·
          10 hours ago

          TBH I plan to migrate off Funkwhale to something more featureful and yea it was a bit of complex set up. Props to the devs tho, it’s open source, stable, and does what it says on the tin

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
        21·
        10 hours ago

        Soulseek afict requires dedicated clients. The Subsonic standard is supported by more & more mobile/PC apps, I wish it was supported

      • three@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        11 hours ago

        Oh no, around here we mention esoteric software but we will never include any extra information in the post. If you know you know.

    • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      I’m guessing this is more about preserving culture and art. I find it unlikely that this post would be someone’s first clue that they could listen to music for free, and listening to music out of this dump would be way harder than any other method.

    • Gravitywell.xYz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      10 hours ago

      Its mostly Sony, UMG, and all the other leeches who would get paid less for their share holders.

      I dont feel like editing the image but imagine the guy with most of the cookies in this picture was UMG and the artists are the guy on the right.

      • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        32 minutes ago

        Yes, sure, but if those don’t get paid, artists don’t get paid. And artists are not forced to pick a label, they are free to go solo, but they still prefer labels, so it’s not that black and white labels bad, artists good

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    Oo, I’ll have to check those when they release. I follow some artists that only upload to YouTube and Spotify, neither of which is ideal.