Spotify library reportedly fully scraped by Anna’s Archive in 300TB torrent release
Pirate archivist group claims to have scraped Spotify’s entire music catalog, collecting around 86 million tracks along with extensive metadata totaling close to 300 terabytes. The group behind the project is Anna’s Archive, an open-source search engine known for indexing shadow libraries, which says the data spans more than 15 million artists and over 58 million albums, marking a significant expansion beyond its usual focus on books and academic texts.
According to the group, the scraped content is being released as self hosted torrents using its custom Anna’s Archive Container format. Files are planned to roll out gradually, starting with the most popular tracks. Anna’s Archive estimates the current archive covers about 99.6 percent of Spotify listens while representing roughly 37 percent of the platform’s total catalog, with more material expected to be added over time.
Spotify responded by saying it identified and disabled accounts involved in unlawful scraping and implemented new safeguards to prevent similar activity. While Anna’s Archive frames the effort as a long term preservation project, it acknowledges that sharing and downloading the material violates intellectual property laws and claims the released dataset now represents the largest publicly available music metadata collection.
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External links
- Backing up SpotifyAnna’s Blog • Official source
- Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped Spotify in its entiretyEngadget
- Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sitesTom's Hardware
- Anna's Archive claims to have backed up Spotify in a 300TB "preservation archive"Neowin
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LEGENDS! What else should I say? You rocks Anna!
15 million artists. How many of them AI? I do not believe that there are so many artists ever existed in history of all entertainment, not just music.
BlackRock is going to have a lower than average return this Christmas and y'all are cheering? YIKES.
So, Spotify dis-service, after you engage in (enshittification)(http://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys) (1, 2, 3,) and slop (1, 2, 3,) what are you gonna do?
Abusing the copyright law i.e. DMCA as SLAPP to repeat the burning of Library of Alexandria, just like Hachette et al. and
Reddit (1, 2, 3?) That will result in Streisand effect instead, as people gets sick with the "you own nothing and be happy" (1, 2, 3,) which is the copyright extremists' war against sharing (1, 2.)
This war on sharing is the "intellectual property" (sic) capitalism stage where Max's alienation theory became what known as defective-by-design proprietary malware, so dump Spotify or any dis-service into which you are being conscripted.
Just in time for Christmas!!