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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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 135 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

C'mon you gotta say why im curious

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 6 points 3 months 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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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 95 points 3 months 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.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 29 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mashup artist detected

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would love lmao. Just bought a second hand VDJ and I'm starting to experiment with mixxx, and I don't know is the style I like (latincore and adjacents) or if the BPM detected of mixxx isn't that good.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Good on you for starting that up! I wish you much success in your mixing and/or producing journey!

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

BPM yes, keys I'm not so sure.

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[–] studentofarkad@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 months 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 months 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 13 points 3 months 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 11 points 3 months 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 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago (10 children)

How much could it cost $10,000

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A RAID6 of 24 * 20TB drives could contain that with both parity and hotswap, with room to spare. Let's say $400 per refurb drive, $2500 rackmount SAS enclosure, $2000 SAS RAID card, $14,100 total. Assuming you already have the server and power and SAS cables.

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[–] notgold@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

I read it as 30tb in my head. 300tb is a bit more than i can manage

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The article claims that they are:

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files).

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months 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

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months 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.

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

Does anyone see the torrent links?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 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)

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I saw that and assumed they'd be torrents of the metadata.

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[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 months ago

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

[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months 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 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Dns blocked in germany. fun.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

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

From the mega thread here

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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] degen@midwest.social 13 points 3 months 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

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spotify has lossless now. Although if you're listening on anything with Bluetooth then you probably won't notice anyway.

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