Backing up Spotify
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We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      37 minutes ago

      Spotify claims to offer lossless quality on much of their catalog; is this claim false or is there something more I’m missing here?

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      39 minutes ago

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

    • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      7 hours ago

      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.