I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐
I think you’re looking for this page.
How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
99% of the “original” Spotify’s contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.
Blog post about the backup
Is it down for anyone else?
Idk I’m able to open the link.
It’s DNS-blocked e.g. in Germany (german source). Try it with a proper DNS resolver. E.g. 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1
I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?
Torrents manage this without any extra tech. Just grab the .torrent file, and only select the files you have space for. Download them then seed, and get your 150 friends to do different files. If I then go to download a file that’s in your batch, the download will happen from your server (and whoever else is seeding these files), and if I go to download a file that’s on one of your 150 others’ server it’ll download from there.
I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server
Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said “It’s like Spotify 10 years ago.” as if that’s a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.
And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!
I tried Tidal but they have a glitch on their app where downloaded songs get stuck and playlists stop downloading. They’ve had a bug open about it for at least three years last I checked. It may sound niche, but I’m often traveling and use offline music regularly
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
Tidal didn’t work when I had all my privacy settings enabled. It straight up didn’t work on the browser on Linux while blocking trackers. If I can’t run your app with full blocker settings, then I am not going to run your app.
Umm
Umm what? That I wasn’t happy I got charged three months for a service I repeatedly cancelled?
I think the confusion is that you basically said “Tidal lost me when they lost me.”
A customer can come back in the future. But probably not after this.
I canceled to shift my charge date originally. Then it became permanent
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Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
I got half a quesadilla and a shiny rock
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit…
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
I’m building my first Linux setup and have a NAS planned out. I’m so stoked. I got a raspberry pi kit from my dad as an Xmas gift yesterday.
I also used a raspberry pi (5). People here will advise against it but for me it’s been working fine so far. I can stream 4K with Jellyfin on my local network just fine. Read/write speeds aren’t great but good enough for me. I used a Pi hat with 5x SATA ports and I have 5x 8TB HDDs in a custom 3D printed enclosure and I’m using ZFS RAID z1. No complaints yet.
You learn a lot more than if you were to just slap an epyc in a box. Pi will reach you about encoding and balancing resources. I still use everything I learnt and some of the gear like the terra master only reason I don’t use it anymore is because I got free server stuff from work.
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.
Sadly my wallet is on time out
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
Shit me, 200gb in metadata, 2.2TB in cover art before we even touch a piece of music! Wild
what a beautiful, simple and well designed website
“address not found”
Get better DNS
Nah, checked Wikipedia. Germany is one of the countries that entirely blocks the site.
Luckily I live in Denmark, and Denmark doesn’t block the archive. So when I’m back home I’ll certainly be checking it out.
Not all of Germany. There is this one for example, works like a charm:
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
Have they actually been indexed?
There is 200gb of just metadata
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
People are saying it’s 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
Not released yet
cue Padme
‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
I wonder how they are splitting it up in different torrents and how many.
They are splitting it up right? 😁
Direct stream may be phase 2
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven’t found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
i need a subscribe button for this
Whoever knows the answer, or when one is developed, someone please ping us all in this thread? thanks mate
That’s nothing compared to my old Napster collection
Fuck Lars.
Saw them live 3 times before that shit. Never listened to a single song since.
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority. thinking of red.sh here
I don’t think many data hoarders are sitting on the AI generated stuff 😁
As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
Am I losing my mind? All magnet links are metadata, no?
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossy stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
Opus is what I’m encoding my working library to. I like ripping to flac (and archiving them as such), but the advantages to smaller file sizes for the working library are worth it for me. So far, I’m really liking the format.
I keep the archive on spinning hard drives, but the opus library on ssd (which makes browsing much quicker, and no unnecessary spinning up the hard drives.)
All tracks within the top 99.6% of listens are supposed to be high quality
It’s not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That’s actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
How does it compare to 192 and 320 bps mp3?
I’d say in general it’s the same, but way lighter than 320 kbps mp3. It’s better than 192 kpbs mp3 and as good or better than 256 kbps mp3.
If you have really high end speakers you can hear difference between 160 Vorbis and 320 MP3, but between 160 Vorbis and 192 MP3 no way.
