this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
1092 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

78024 readers
3514 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
1092
Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)
submitted 1 day ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
171 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

In between

It's not in MP3, it's Ogg vorbis and I don't have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.

They claim usual people can't tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I'm picky so I know I'll notice something.

Remembering t this is Anna's archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.

That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I like flac and I understand the human desire to get the best quality of everything. You can't tell the difference between 25mb flac and 2,5 mb 160 kbps opus though.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Alright, I will concede that Opus at 160kbps is really good. I always knew at low bitrates it was better than mp3 but I have not used it in awhile. I store everything in flac.

But if anyone else wants to compare: https://opus-bitrates.anthum.com/ lets you compare various bit rates of Opus. I think I hear a high end distortion in 160 that I don't hear in the 512, but it could be expectation.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don't know I've moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

Yes, Ogg Vorbis's sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That's why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with popularity = 0 opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files with popularity > 0.