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Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged audio files to follow. Here is what's included, what's missing, and why it exists.
Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.
Spotify playlists are a surprisingly big part of my life. I make a handful of new, curated, choreographed ones for the spin classes I teach every week and otherwise meticulously maintain quarterly playlists designed to represent the overall vibe of specific,
According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks.” It’s also “the world’s first ‘preservation archive’ for music which is fully open,” with 86 million music files, the archive boasted.
Spotify is investigating claims that a piracy-linked group has millions of music tracks and data from the platform without authorization.
Tens of thousands of Spotify users reported outages on Monday, with some saying they had lost access to their playlists.
The 'Stranger Things' playlist combines music with thrilling clues, giving fans a sneak peek at a clip from Season 5 Vol. 2.
Spotify Wrapped is evolving from celebration to strategy, giving creators deep insights into audience loyalty, global reach and what’s really working.
Spotify is dealing with a major breach after activist group Anna’s Archive claimed to have uploaded almost all of the platform’s music library online for free, including hundreds of terabytes of tracks and metadata scraped from the service.
While the shadow library says it aims to preserve humanity’s culture, its pirated content has wider implications for the future of streaming.
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