We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). 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.
  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 minutes ago

    The data they compiled is really cool.

    If reading the chart right, the genera with the most artists is opera.

    Even if they didn’t have the music files, the analysis on the metadata is insane.

    Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them, but also fuck Sony for locking art behind shitty contracts that forces these kind of projects to exist.

  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    2 hours ago

    This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.

    Does this mean the MusicBrainz database will soon go from 5 million to 186 million tracks?

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    6·
    1 hour ago

    I’ll strongly suggest to take out all the cheaply AI generated music from this “back up” and save themselves some space.

  • lietuva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    There’s definitely gonna be some crazy guy who will but this on their server and stream it to their phones lol

    • Gravitywell.xYz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      24 minutes ago

      Its mostly Sony, UMG, and all the other leeches who would get paid less for their share holders.

      I dont feel like editing the image but imagine the guy with most of the cookies in this picture was UMG and the artists are the guy on the right.

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        Soulseek afict requires dedicated clients. The Subsonic standard is supported by more & more mobile/PC apps, I wish it was supported

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        55 minutes ago

        AFAIK: Yes. But it’s supposedly a pain to set up, so I’ll never know the difference.

        • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          27 minutes ago

          TBH I plan to migrate off Funkwhale to something more featureful and yea it was a bit of complex set up. Props to the devs tho, it’s open source, stable, and does what it says on the tin

      • three@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Oh no, around here we mention esoteric software but we will never include any extra information in the post. If you know you know.

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Oo, I’ll have to check those when they release. I follow some artists that only upload to YouTube and Spotify, neither of which is ideal.