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Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
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[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.

Does this mean the MusicBrainz database will soon go from 5 million to 186 million tracks?

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Asking the real questions here...

[–] exu@feditown.com 18 points 1 day ago

Probably not worth it to store the AI tracks

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's exactly what I was wondering too.

Acquiring high quality music is already easy enough in most cases.

What I am interested in is the metadata. Accurate tagging of all my files is of high interest.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I'm sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won't take too long.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought metadata couldn't be copyrighted though?

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It can't, but I'm sure that wouldn't stop Spotify from raising a stink if they see it being bulk imported. I'd imagine this would be similar to OpenStreetMaps and Google Maps; they probably could scrape and bulk import missing info, but they restrict it to licensed sources and user edits to limit liability and enforce quality.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In cartography the expression of the uncopyrightable data is itself copyrighted (e.g. colors used, thickness of ligns) so maybe certain data fields are owned by Spotify (e.g. genre, description, history, song notes)

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

ligns

that's a fascinating typo.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

You know, I thought it didn't look right, but I typed it into Google and it didn't autocorrect so I went with it.

Rhymes with signs, it must be right.