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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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Does anyone see the torrent links?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 30 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 11 points 12 hours ago

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