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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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

yea, I guess I was thinking 1tb was at least a manageable size for a homebrewer, especially if you were only interested in archiving the top 1 or 2 million songs.

It's still not a casually sized torrent by any means, but it's a lot more manageable than 300tb. If you're someone who wants to archive that much media, you probably have enough tech literacy to manage several torrent clients. The article also says they're willing to make individual songs available on their website, "if people are interested in it".