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Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify.
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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Torrents aren't actually available yet though.
 
guiltyspark85 said:
Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify.

Torrents aren't actually available yet though.
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  • For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
  • For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Pretty shit quality in the grand scheme of things but I can understand why. Big thing I can see this being useful for is the metadata. A collection of accurate metadata that large should be useful for other services which have existing databases.
 
moocow said:
The tax man would really prefer it if you kept buying and pretending not to see the sales tax, if you please.
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honestly, as someone who dealt with people, they don't care about tax and will blame it on the merchant instead if they see the number being bigger than it was before, no matter what it's said to them.
Betonhaus said:
>300TB
well I'm going to need some more drives
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if you don't mind refurbs you can get 1PB easily.
 
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TorrentFreak: Video Game Giants Suddenly Have RuTracker in their Crosshairs Again (archive) (mega)
RuTracker is not only Russia's largest torrent site, it's one of the oldest and most resilient pirate sites anywhere in the world. Most major entertainment companies have had issues with RuTracker at some point during its 21 years online, and those in the videogame sector are no exception. Under the umbrella of The ESA, some of the largest are now showing renewed interest in the torrent site veteran.
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At the US District Court for the District of Columbia this week, counsel for ESA requested a subpoena pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(h), commonly known as a DMCA subpoena. The target was Cloudflare and the complaint concerns the unlicensed distribution of ESA members’ copyrighted works via RuTracker.
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Added to Cloudflare News Megathread.

guiltyspark85 said:
Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify.
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Added to Shadow Libraries thread.
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
These fucking AI datacenters ruining our fun.

I bought 2 16TB Ironwolfs back in February. Told the IRS is was an education expense from my 529 for my server course in college.
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Retarded ass normies hate AI for the gayest reasons imaginable. I hate AI because is making almost all of my nerd hobbies extremely overpriced, we are not the same.
 
Disguised In Cognito said:
Pretty shit quality in the grand scheme of things but I can understand why. Big thing I can see this being useful for is the metadata. A collection of accurate metadata that large should be useful for other services which have existing databases.
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160 Kbps OGG Vorbis is probably equivalent to somewhere near 256 Kbps MP3, perfectly fine for most listeners and recordings. The point of this scraping is definitely the metadata though.

The blog post is saying the popularity=0 tracks are often AI generated. I guess it's whatever shit sneaks onto the platform from bots and unknown cloud/mumble rappers, getting a statistically insignificant amount of listens.
 
CEO of Autism said:
Year of the Linux phone soon 🌈
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Yeah, right after Year of the Spoony.

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whats the best way to get into a private movie and tv show tracker these days? i'm in my 40s, been doing this shit since the napster days but had kids and fell out of it. so much has changed in the past 10 years and i don't even know where to start. anyone have any invites or a way to get started?
 
BatterHomes&Gardens said:
whats the best way to get into a private movie and tv show tracker these days? i'm in my 40s, been doing this shit since the napster days but had kids and fell out of it. so much has changed in the past 10 years and i don't even know where to start. anyone have any invites or a way to get started?
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I don't dispense invites anymore because 9 out of 10 invitees always end up banned even when they swear they'll be good bois. Prepare for interviews for those trackers that allow it. Ask on /ptg/ on 4chan's technology board if you have doubts.
 
BatterHomes&Gardens said:
whats the best way to get into a private movie and tv show tracker these days? i'm in my 40s, been doing this shit since the napster days but had kids and fell out of it. so much has changed in the past 10 years and i don't even know where to start. anyone have any invites or a way to get started?
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I think there are rotating lists of private trackers with open signups. I’d just choose an alias, rent a seedbox, jump on one and seed the fuck out of everything until you build a reputation. Then you start looking around for invites to others.

I don’t do this personally, I just use public trackers and split my traffic between a local and rented seedbox and use Soulseek for music.

I mean if I received an invite I’d participate, but I’ve never found a reason to actively go hunting for one. It’s a good way to do it if you’re up for investing the time into it.
 
CEO of Autism said:
I don't dispense invites anymore because 9 out of 10 invitees always end up banned even when they swear they'll be good bois.
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I'm seeding as much as I can, but no one's fucking leeching. Let me fucking SEED. LET ME SEED. I WANT TO SEED. PROVIDE ME A RATIO, LET ME SEED.

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