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"Spotify’s statement stops short of confirming the scale described by Anna’s Archive. While the platform says only “some” of its audio files were accessed, Anna’s Archive claims it was able to archive music representing 99.6% of all listens on Spotify."

RUTROAH!

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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 6h

Who has a spare 300TB of space to put it on?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 2h

lol just what I was thinking, they only go as high as 10-12TB right?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 2h

They seem pretty chill about it.

A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation. Generally speaking, music is already fairly well preserved. There are many music enthusiasts in the world who digitized their CD and LP collections, shared them through torrents or other digital means, and meticulously catalogued them.
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Now this will make for an interesting showdown.

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