When will Anna fly too close to the sun?
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.
I think the utility is for preservation, not necessary easy access. Presumably some folks will download and seed those torrents. If I need a song from it 5 years from now and can’t find it anywhere else, I can find the torrent that contains it and download just that song. It’s a hassle, but it’s totally possible to download 1 file from a torrent.
assuming they’re not in weird archives. when i used to torrent stuff there were a lot of usenet uploads that were split into 58 zip files