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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[–] git@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for the explainer but nothing you’ve said contradicts my statement or really matters. Yes you’ll end up with stray blocks but it’s the difference between fetching the whole thing vs an extra hundred megabytes so the difference is moot for the average user.