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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[–] itsPina@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Large collections in torrent format always have the problem that most people only want 1% of the file, but it's never been an issue on any private trackers I've been on due to seedtime incentives. Most places don't really like hit n runs but that's kinda hard to enforce with a public torrent, but on the flip side the vast majority of leeches will only be grabbing an incredibly inconsequential amount of data. Anyone with 300tb of data on their seedbox accepts they're gonna get hit and ran by the vast majority of people.

As someone with a meager 80tb data center I will bear the cross of hosting this data for all the young Me's who want to play Nintendo DS games they can't afford, nor seed.