"Honey, all I need is $10,000 for a server and we'll never pay for Spotify again"
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
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Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!
I got 10tb I'll throw at a few slices of this.
damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe..
I fucking love annas archive.
~~Anna does seem rather insane though~~
Edit: I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub
C'mon you gotta say why im curious
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
Idk if I'd expect much less from a legendary pirate
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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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.
And slip the POTUS a gold phone or a couple thousand bucks and you are g2g
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.
Often and increasingly they are not bothering with the discretion part anymore.
Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?
Mashup artist detected
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.
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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.
BPM yes, keys I'm not so sure.
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Are these the actual music files you can use to play as well?
Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas
I'd wager 70% of what's on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.
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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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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Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn't be that hard I think
If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.
How much could it cost $10,000
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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The article claims that they are:
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files).
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Does anyone see the torrent links?
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)
Now make it streamable and make a stremio-like music client 🤞
Record labels themselves would march on foot to burn down the archives
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.
Have to find them first
Yeah they're definitely gonna catch some legal action for this, even tho I'm all for them releasing the data
Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.
Does this make Anna's Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED
Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl
Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.
I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.
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