How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐
I think you’re looking for this page.
99% of the “original” Spotify’s contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.
Blog post about the backup
Is it down for anyone else?
It’s DNS-blocked e.g. in Germany (german source). Try it with a proper DNS resolver. E.g. 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1
Idk I’m able to open the link.
I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?
Torrents manage this without any extra tech. Just grab the .torrent file, and only select the files you have space for. Download them then seed, and get your 150 friends to do different files. If I then go to download a file that’s in your batch, the download will happen from your server (and whoever else is seeding these files), and if I go to download a file that’s on one of your 150 others’ server it’ll download from there.
I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server
But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?
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.
I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don’t know I’ve moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.
Spotify has bitrate options
BLESSED
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.
I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.
And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!
I tried Tidal but they have a glitch on their app where downloaded songs get stuck and playlists stop downloading. They’ve had a bug open about it for at least three years last I checked. It may sound niche, but I’m often traveling and use offline music regularly
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
Tidal didn’t work when I had all my privacy settings enabled. It straight up didn’t work on the browser on Linux while blocking trackers. If I can’t run your app with full blocker settings, then I am not going to run your app.
Umm
Umm what? That I wasn’t happy I got charged three months for a service I repeatedly cancelled?
I think the confusion is that you basically said “Tidal lost me when they lost me.”
I canceled to shift my charge date originally. Then it became permanent
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Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
I got half a quesadilla and a shiny rock
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
I’m building my first Linux setup and have a NAS planned out. I’m so stoked. I got a raspberry pi kit from my dad as an Xmas gift yesterday.
I also used a raspberry pi (5). People here will advise against it but for me it’s been working fine so far. I can stream 4K with Jellyfin on my local network just fine. Read/write speeds aren’t great but good enough for me. I used a Pi hat with 5x SATA ports and I have 5x 8TB HDDs in a custom 3D printed enclosure and I’m using ZFS RAID z1. No complaints yet.
You learn a lot more than if you were to just slap an epyc in a box. Pi will reach you about encoding and balancing resources. I still use everything I learnt and some of the gear like the terra master only reason I don’t use it anymore is because I got free server stuff from work.
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
Sadly my wallet is on time out
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit…
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
Shit me, 200gb in metadata, 2.2TB in cover art before we even touch a piece of music! Wild
what a beautiful, simple and well designed website
“address not found”
Get better DNS
Nah, checked Wikipedia. Germany is one of the countries that entirely blocks the site.
Luckily I live in Denmark, and Denmark doesn’t block the archive. So when I’m back home I’ll certainly be checking it out.
Not all of Germany. There is this one for example, works like a charm:
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.
100%
…and Archive.org
And Wikipedia.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
Have they actually been indexed?
There is 200gb of just metadata
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
People are saying it’s 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
God damn! That’s essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?
Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.
Not released yet
cue Padme
‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
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
I wonder how they are splitting it up in different torrents and how many.
They are splitting it up right? 😁
Direct stream may be phase 2
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven’t found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
i need a subscribe button for this
Whoever knows the answer, or when one is developed, someone please ping us all in this thread? thanks mate
That’s nothing compared to my old Napster collection
Fuck Lars.
Saw them live 3 times before that shit. Never listened to a single song since.
