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[–] souperk@reddthat.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Has anyone tried to self host this? Of course, hosting 300tb isn't practical, so any solution would need to download the metadata and songs on demand.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wow this is so revolutionary.

Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Not this easily with accurate tags and art it hasn't.

[–] 123@programming.dev 3 points 44 minutes ago

They more often than torrents do have the wrong tags when its not English music. Took me way too many emails to google music and Spotify before they stopped screaming at me with ALL CAPS on one album and before removing the dots after album track names (1. Track Name), not to mention the ones named TRACK 1, etc.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Uhh get on a real site and it has been.

[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Was there really much content on it that wasn't already available in a torrent somewhere already?

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

I would be very surprised if it wasn’t, at best it’s stuff no one bothered with and somehow I expect that won’t get torrented much either.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.

Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.

When copyright dies so rich conglomerates can make money by monetizing out toys and collectibles and theme parks from smaller creators content without paying a dime back to them? Copyright is beneficial. Copyright is good. It needs reform, yes, but don't mistake that with the concept being bad.

[–] hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 12 hours ago

Already done. It's called Torrent Streaming and lets you stream-on-demand anything that exists as a torrent without having to torrent anything yourself.

A client that can stream these Spotify torrents with an interface that works like Spotify (low bar, I know) will be awesome, but also including a database to match songs to artists so users can send money directly to the artists they listen to will make it revolutionary.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 43 points 16 hours ago

My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck... Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The price for restored HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so ago

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

He probably means refurbished

[–] Alexhudosnik@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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?🧐

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.

Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.

[–] Beartotem@sh.itjust.works 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Condemn" or "condone"? While similar sounding, those two words have basically opposite meaning. Yay English!

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Don't even get started on our homophones. XD

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

Dude it's 2025 you can't use that word anymore

[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

On their torrent page it's explained more but it's broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you're willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded "blob".

I don't really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!

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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 11 hours ago

internet explorer bro

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 15 points 20 hours ago (4 children)
[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

Interesting post. There was one artist with popularity = 100 but they didn’t mention who it was

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[–] Zarajevo@feddit.org 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server

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[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

99% of the "original" Spotify's contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

They break this down on their page, but while that's certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.

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