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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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Spotify claims to offer lossless quality on much of their catalog; is this claim false or is there something more I'm missing here?

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

They were trying to keep file sizes down.

[–] Frigger@feddit.uk 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

No one can tell the difference beyond 320kbps

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah but until two months ago Spotify was 24kbps

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure there are some, namely audiophiles, but that is not who I am so I'm good with this lol.