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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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

I got 10tb I'll throw at a few slices of this.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we'll never pay for Spotify again"

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 106 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

And slip the POTUS a gold phone or a couple thousand bucks and you are g2g

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Often and increasingly they are not bothering with the discretion part anymore.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 158 points 3 days ago (1 children)

damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe..

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I fucking love annas archive.

~~Anna does seem rather insane though~~

Edit: I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub

[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

C'mon you gotta say why im curious

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

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.

Edit: I was misremembering Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, as Anna of Anna's Archive. Oops

[–] degen@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

Idk if I'd expect much less from a legendary pirate

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.

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[–] degen@midwest.social 15 points 2 days ago

Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

holy fuck

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Does this make Anna's Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago

300TB pingu-horny

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 53 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Mashup artist detected

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Dns blocked in germany. fun.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox's settings)

[–] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Simply choose a private DNS server like mullvad,quad,etc. and it should work..

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/

From the mega thread here

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[–] harcesz@szmer.info 8 points 2 days ago

Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.

[–] studentofarkad@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are these the actual music files you can use to play as well?

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'd wager 70% of what's on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah as with most of the internet, it’s only worth downloading anything uploaded before 2023.

So far, LLMs have done so much more harm than help.

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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn't be that hard I think

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 24 points 3 days ago (20 children)

If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The article claims that they are:

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files).

[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now make it streamable and make a stremio-like music client 🤞

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 42 points 3 days ago

Record labels themselves would march on foot to burn down the archives

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone see the torrent links?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It says,

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)

[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)

[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)

[ ] Album art

[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)

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