Backing up Spotify
annas-archive.li
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.

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      37·
      30 days ago

      I fucking love annas archive.

      Anna does seem rather insane though

      Edit: I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub

        • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9·
          30 days ago

          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.

          Edit: I was misremembering Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, as Anna of Anna’s Archive. Oops

          • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
            7·
            1 month ago

            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

            • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              2·
              30 days ago

              I went to look for a link for you and found that I was misremembering. I was thinking of Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of Sci-Hub, one of the libraries that Anna’s Archive indexes. In case you’re curious about her, here’s an archive of her personal page on Sci-Hub

  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
    109·
    1 month ago

    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.meEnglish
      30·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • 4gramsEnglish
        9·
        1 month ago

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

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        8·
        1 month ago

        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.comEnglish
          6·
          1 month ago

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

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      31·
      1 month 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.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 month 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…

    • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
      42·
      1 month ago

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

      • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
        54·
        1 month ago

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

        • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
          52·
          1 month 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
            3·
            1 month ago

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

        • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
          19·
          1 month ago

          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.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      1 month 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

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Not yet, but that’s the end goal. The tricky part is that they’re only offering bulk downloads for now, which means downloading a single artist or album would be difficult/impossible. You’d need to download the entire compressed file of like 300GB of music, then extract the specific songs/artists/albums you wanted. The goal for now is preservation, meaning they want to make the bulk download as easy as possible, to make sure people can preserve it. Once they’ve got that in a pretty good spot, they may look into allowing more granular downloads.

    • slappyfuck@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      Omg if my girlfriend had $10k to give me for a server I could buy like a RAM or two!

  • harc@szmer.infoEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

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

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Honestly, this is the best time to snapshot it, because even with the slop already there, the exponential increase that’s about to happen will absolutely dwarf what’s there now.