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.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this does spark a lawsuit, I'm worried losing would set precedent for taking down archive.org and its critical role for journalism. If Anna wins that lawsuit, it would be hilarious if this happened to every streaming service the day after.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Archive.org secretly has a full backup of all the torrents on whatcd, the private music torrent site which was shutdown in 2016. I learned about it when I saw IP addresses from archive.org in the torrent client peerlists. Whatcd had over 1 million albums in lossless format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD

[–] dead@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to add that archive.org (Internet Archive) is not just a website. It is my understanding that they have many non-public archive projects. They have tons of physical media in storage that they plan to digitize. They scan physical books and vinyl records, some of which they make public and some they keep secret.

The reasoning that I've been told is that they want to release media after the copyright expires, 75 year rule.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

fidel-salute-big

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Damn I had a what.cd login back in the day. Good times RIP