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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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 123 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

damn, annas is fucking based. hope they stay safe..

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I fucking love annas archive. Anna does seem rather insane though

[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

C'mon you gotta say why im curious

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

iirc her writings gave me the impression that she basically worships communism and famous soviet communist leaders in a vaguely religious way. I can go look again later and elaborate. It could just be the language barrier that gave me that impression.

[–] degen@midwest.social 5 points 5 hours ago

Idk if I'd expect much less from a legendary pirate

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Down with the bourgeoisie

Eat the rich

Sodomize the land-owners

Impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket

Literally murder all human beings regardless of their political beliefs

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 82 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

After Meta scraped all their books they have the perfect defense now. All they have to say is "we're training a music AI" and they're apparently untouchable.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, they have to say "we're training a music AI" while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don't win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn't illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 7 points 7 hours ago

Often and increasingly they are not bothering with the discretion part anymore.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Anyone knows if spotify metadata have BPM and keys?

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 33 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mashup artist detected

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Would love lmao. Just bought a second hand VDJ and I'm starting to experiment with mixxx, and I don't know is the style I like (latincore and adjacents) or if the BPM detected of mixxx isn't that good.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Good on you for starting that up! I wish you much success in your mixing and/or producing journey!

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Both. Per the SQL schema printed in the article, table track_audio_features has both fields tempo and key along with many other technicals. Worth checking out, it's near the bottom of the page.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

BPM yes, keys I'm not so sure.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes, and it hasn’t been easy to dig up until recently. There were a few ways to search the “hidden” metadata fields that Spotify uses internally. But it definitely hasn’t been easy or straightforward.

Those hidden fields are how Spotify recommends similar artists. You have a few bands on repeat with specific instruments, chord progressions, and singer vocal range? Gee, maybe you’ll enjoy other bands that are similar to that…

[–] studentofarkad@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Are these the actual music files you can use to play as well?

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd wager 70% of what's on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced AI slop can compete with the back log of organic slop personally.

But yeah a fuckton is probably slop either way

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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn't be that hard I think

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah as with most of the internet, it’s only worth downloading anything uploaded before 2023.

So far, LLMs have done so much more harm than help.

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[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (10 children)

How much could it cost $10,000

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

This gif is going to completely lose its punch in a couple years.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

A RAID6 of 24 * 20TB drives could contain that with both parity and hotswap, with room to spare. Let's say $400 per refurb drive, $2500 rackmount SAS enclosure, $2000 SAS RAID card, $14,100 total. Assuming you already have the server and power and SAS cables.

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[–] notgold@aussie.zone 4 points 21 hours ago

I read it as 30tb in my head. 300tb is a bit more than i can manage

[–] Jerkface@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The article claims that they are:

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files).

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 14 hours ago

They've released torrents of the metadata, and they plan to release the music files, but they haven't yet. They intend to start by offering the downloads as bulk torrents, but they're open to considering implementing the ability to download single songs in the future.

So in short, yes, but you can't download them yet

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone see the torrent links?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 37 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 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 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now make it streamable and make a stremio-like music client 🤞

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago

Record labels themselves would march on foot to burn down the archives

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

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Dns blocked in germany. fun.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

Does DoH work? (Secure DNS in firefox's settings)

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[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Does this make Anna's Archive the top music tracker now? Lol move over RED

[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I cannot fathom the legal fees that will be incurred if they release 99.6% of Spotify to the public for free. Holy fucking shit.

[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Maybe they could say they're AI. Apparently copyright infringement's legal then.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

well bluetooth always adds additional compression, so it could still make a difference

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] degen@midwest.social 4 points 4 hours ago

Almost makes me want to get into torrenting again. But dab.yeet.su, squid.wtf, and doubledouble.top usually have me covered with ddl

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 4 points 5 hours ago

Would be interesting if someone checked what % of that archive is slopified.

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