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.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      5 hours ago

      It says,

      The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

      [X] Metadata (Dec 2025)

      [ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)

      [ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)

      [ ] Album art

      [ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)