Backing up Spotify
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We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). 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.

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.

  • nagaram@startrek.website
    English
    532·
    22 hours ago

    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

    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      AI slop is accelerating exponentially for the foreseeable future. It won’t take long for world data storage to be a limiting factor.