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 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Does anyone see the torrent links?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] patetico@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't find it in the blog post but it's listed in the website https://annas-archive.org/torrents/spotify

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Perfect. I'm downloading it to seed!