Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback (torrentfreak.com)
- Reference: 0180788148
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/197235/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback
- Source link: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
The site's backend torrent index now lists 47 new torrents added on February 8, containing roughly 2.8 million tracks across approximately 6 terabytes of audio data. Anna's Archive had previously released only Spotify metadata -- about 200 GB compressed -- and appeared to comply by removing its dedicated Spotify download section and marking it "unavailable until further notice."
[1] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/12/22/1128259/spotify-says-anti-copyright-extremists-scraped-its-library
[2] https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/
[3] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/21/2320256/spotify-lawsuit-triggered-annas-archive-domain-name-suspensions
What to do with infinite music? (Score:1)
It's 2035, and as you're walking down the street, a stranger furtively motions towards you from a doorway. "Hey buddy", he says. "I got here a 10TB thumb drive filled with humanity's 2 million most popular songs. It's yours for $50. Buy this and you can listen to music 24/7 for the next 22 years without ever repeating a song".
In a moment of weakness, you agree to the purchase, and it turns out the stranger was true to his word -- all the promised music is on the drive, pirated and mp3-compressed for you
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Turn on the radio. When you hear something you like, check the catalog. Or listen to some podcasts that feature up and comers, or niche music. I can't begin to list all of the music I stumbled across listening to "Bands Under the Radar" by Kami Knake back in the day. Or classics I somehow missed on "Vinyl Tap" by Randy Bachman. But if you have "all" of Spotify, branch out. Tune into the local university AM/FM broadcast. Check out jazz stations. Come back to your library for the rest of it.
You're right. A li
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As long as you have it, someone'll figure a way that you like and write a script that you can use.
Any algorithm you can think of will run fine on any single CPU on any one of the several small computers you routinely carry around.
No big deal.
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Seems someone with mod points assumed I didn't do my research first and just spouted off. [1]Spotify claims to have over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 500,000 audiobooks. [spotify.com] Now, admittedly, math has never been my strongest subject, but 2.8 million tracks seems just a teensy bit smaller than that (perhaps I misplaced a decimal somewhere - it has been known to happen).
So, my point was that the full, entire Spotify library must be quite mind-blowingly large. Probably in the order of not somet
[1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/
Re: No torrent link? (Score:3)
"Everyone will wait for someone more palatable to come along and inform them as someone with credibility."
Did you just say the messenger is more important than the message and ad hominem is the best way of finding truth?
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I would imagine the modding down was the Old Fart Get Off My Lawn intro rather than anything to do with whether there was a torrent link or how big the archive was.
(For those thinking "But most music today is crap", that was true ten years ago... twenty... thirty... forty... my entire life, and before it. You only remember the good stuff. There are always gems in the rough, that's what makes music worth listening to.)
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True, but the volume today is orders of magnitude more. But also music has gotten more and more simplistic in recent years, relying on hooks to grab listeners. Rick Beato expresses it much better than I.
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> I would imagine the modding down was the Old Fart Get Off My Lawn intro rather than anything to do with whether there was a torrent link or how big the archive was.
No, you and several others missed the point. You're not getting a curated collection, or the specialized algorithm, or any of the things that makes Spotify, Spotify. You're just getting one big honkin', massive collection of music, [1]with about 80% of it being content that can't find more than 50 listeners. [musicbusin...ldwide.com]
You. Are. Going. To. Press. "Skip". A. Lot.
> (For those thinking "But most music today is crap", that was true ten years ago... twenty... thirty... forty... my entire life, and before it. You only remember the good stuff. There are always gems in the rough, that's what makes music worth listening to.)
I was just in a department store earlier this evening that was playing Two Princes by Spin Doctors. That's a 34-year-old song. In 1991, that'd have been like a
[1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/over-75-of-artists-on-spotify-have-fewer-than-50-monthly-listeners/
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The linked article on Torrent Freak says says: 6 TB.
My Anna's Archive link is down ATM so I can't verify. I'll check again some other time.
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Here ye go: [1]https://annas-archive.gl/ [annas-archive.gl]
[1] https://annas-archive.gl/
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Ah and here is a bunch of interesting data about it: [1]https://annas-archive.gl/blog/... [annas-archive.gl]
[1] https://annas-archive.gl/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Re: No torrent link? (Score:2)
Does not appear to return any music in search results.
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Modded Troll, really?
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/. modding used to mean something.