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commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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:Anna's Archive scraped 86M songs from Spotify covering 99.6% of streams. The 300TB archive is already on torrents.
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    The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only

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      God damn! That’s essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?

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        It includes cover art and also preview clips. In this blog post you can read what their database contains: https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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        Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.

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