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.