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.

  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    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.

        • Homosexual sapiens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          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

          • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
            01·
            7 months ago

            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

    • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

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

            • oyo@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              This gif is going to completely lose its punch in a couple years.

            • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
              0·
              7 months ago

              10US dollar per TB?? 🤣🤣 More like 30/35€ per TB for a good graded HDD!

              Let’s not talk about SSDs or nvme which are more in the 120€/TB.

              I always hear people say that storage comes cheap nowaday… I’m still looking for that cheap HDD on amazon… It has been 10 years 🤣🤣

              • BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                6 months ago

                It seems this post was locked down for some reason so I couldn’t reply sooner.

                Here you go -

                $10.61/TB - HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080AL5200 | 0F23268 | 8TB 7.2K RPM 128MB Cache SAS 12Gb/s 512E 3.5"

                $10.83/TB - WD-40 Ultrastar HE12 12TB SAS 512E

                $12.65/TB - Seagate Expansion Desktop 26TB, Externe Harde Schijf, 3.5"

                $13.63/TB - Seagate Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0

                If it weren’t for AI creating a shortage of drives, these prices would’ve been even cheaper