"Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we'll never pay for Spotify again"
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Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!
holy fuck
I cannot fathom the legal fees that will be incurred if they release 99.6% of Spotify to the public for free. Holy fucking shit.
Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.
Have to find them first
Yeah they're definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I'm all for them releasing the data
Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl
After Meta scraped all their books they have the perfect defense now. All they have to say is "we're training a music AI" and they're apparently untouchable.
Well, they have to say "we're training a music AI" while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don't win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn't illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.
Often and increasingly they are not bothering with the discretion part anymore.
damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe..
I fucking love annas archive. Anna does seem rather insane though
C'mon you gotta say why im curious
iirc her writings gave me the impression that she basically worships communism and famous soviet communist leaders in a vaguely religious way. I can go look again later and elaborate. It could just be the language barrier that gave me that impression.
Idk if I'd expect much less from a legendary pirate
Down with the bourgeoisie
Eat the rich
Sodomize the land-owners
Impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket
Literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs
...i mean some of that's pretty extreme but she has a point with tenet number five...
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Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.
Honestly, this is the best time to snapshot it, because even with the slop already there, the exponential increase that's about to happen will absolutely dwarf what's there now.
Does this make Anna's Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED
more like "backify". seriously!
Dns blocked in germany. fun.
Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox's settings)
Simply choose a private DNS server like mullvad,quad,etc. and it should work..
It's probably blocked by your particular ISP, not every German ISP.
300TB 
Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?
Both. Per the SQL schema printed in the article, table track_audio_features has both fields tempo and key along with many other technicals. Worth checking out, it's near the bottom of the page.
Yes, and it hasn’t been easy to dig up until recently. There were a few ways to search the “hidden” metadata fields that Spotify uses internally. But it definitely hasn’t been easy or straightforward.
Those hidden fields are how Spotify recommends similar artists. You have a few bands on repeat with specific instruments, chord progressions, and singer vocal range? Gee, maybe you’ll enjoy other bands that are similar to that…
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Are these the actual music files you can use to play as well?
Not yet, but that’s the end goal. The tricky part is that they’re only offering bulk downloads for now, which means downloading a single artist or album would be difficult/impossible. You’d need to download the entire compressed file of like 300GB of music, then extract the specific songs/artists/albums you wanted. The goal for now is preservation, meaning they want to make the bulk download as easy as possible, to make sure people can preserve it. Once they’ve got that in a pretty good spot, they may look into allowing more granular downloads.
They've released torrents of the metadata, and they plan to release the music files, but they haven't yet. They intend to start by offering the downloads as bulk torrents, but they're open to considering implementing the ability to download single songs in the future.
So in short, yes, but you can't download them yet
Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas
I'd wager 70% of what's on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.
I'm not convinced AI slop can compete with the back log of organic slop personally.
But yeah a fuckton is probably slop either way
AI slop is accelerating exponentially for the foreseeable future. It won't take long for world data storage to be a limiting factor.
Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn't be that hard I think
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Now make it streamable and make a stremio-like music client 🤞
Record labels themselves would march on foot to burn down the archives
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