Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of digital content — say they’ve found a way to download virtually the entirety of Spotify for preservation.
In a blog post detailing their work, the archivists say they’ve archived the audio of some 86 million songs so far, representing 99.6 percent of total listens on the streaming service. They scraped metadata from nearly the entire Spotify library, however, which is some 300 terabytes in size, spanning 256 million tracks. There are 15.43 million artists represented, and 58.6 million albums.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving company. Fuck Spotify.
Good. Corporations have too much control over art.
Spotify literally started the same way.
Just pay the artists!
I literally just canceled my subscription this week. This is wonderful news.
What does this accomplish exactly to help artists? Nothing
What percentage of the package is AI crap?
Please leave out the Ai songs
Hell yeah. My shitty Lil band will be preserved in untold archives. Fuck Spotify.
Just commenting here 3 let everyone know Spotify sucks and how easy it was to move all my playlists to Tidal
What does this achieve? They download it to somewhere and then what?
Soooooo, how does your average Joe (totally not me) take advantage of this?
Time to launch th Spotifry app
Question what is the size of this data ? 10000TO ???
What the combined runtime on all that?
Did they download my band? Inner Vista needs more plays!! 🤌
Got a link for that 80s playlist?
Remember kids, Reddit approves of stealing as long as it’s from Big Corporation™!
Hacktivists: how do we fuck over songwriters even harder than Spotify?
The everyday hero strikes again
Good , Spotify sucks
Can someone explain what this accomplishes? How is it fucking over Spotify that they have this data?
Damn too bad king gizz isn’t in there
They didn’t do anything wrong. They were just training their AI model.
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Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of digital content — say they’ve found a way to download virtually the entirety of Spotify for preservation.
In a blog post detailing their work, the archivists say they’ve archived the audio of some 86 million songs so far, representing 99.6 percent of total listens on the streaming service. They scraped metadata from nearly the entire Spotify library, however, which is some 300 terabytes in size, spanning 256 million tracks. There are 15.43 million artists represented, and 58.6 million albums.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving company. Fuck Spotify.
Good. Corporations have too much control over art.
Spotify literally started the same way.
Just pay the artists!
I literally just canceled my subscription this week. This is wonderful news.
What does this accomplish exactly to help artists? Nothing
What percentage of the package is AI crap?
Please leave out the Ai songs
Hell yeah. My shitty Lil band will be preserved in untold archives. Fuck Spotify.
Just commenting here 3 let everyone know Spotify sucks and how easy it was to move all my playlists to Tidal
What does this achieve? They download it to somewhere and then what?
Soooooo, how does your average Joe (totally not me) take advantage of this?
Time to launch th Spotifry app
Question what is the size of this data ? 10000TO ???
What the combined runtime on all that?
Did they download my band? Inner Vista needs more plays!! 🤌
Got a link for that 80s playlist?
Remember kids, Reddit approves of stealing as long as it’s from Big Corporation™!
Hacktivists: how do we fuck over songwriters even harder than Spotify?
The everyday hero strikes again
Good , Spotify sucks
Can someone explain what this accomplishes? How is it fucking over Spotify that they have this data?
Damn too bad king gizz isn’t in there
They didn’t do anything wrong. They were just training their AI model.
So they stole my work…
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