:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
  • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
    72·
    10 hours ago

    But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      9 hours ago

      In between

      It’s not in MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis and I don’t have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.

      They claim usual people can’t tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I’m picky so I know I’ll notice something.

      Remembering t this is Anna’s archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.

        That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.

        • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Yes, Ogg Vorbis’s sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That’s why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with popularity = 0 opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files with popularity > 0.