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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 sites (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Does spotify already have lossless? Because fuck mp3s for archiving.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    "Relatively popular songs are stored in their original 160kbit/s OGG Vorbis quality, while the rest use 75kbit/s "

    I don't know OGG files but if that is comparable to MP3s of the same quality then it is all pretty shitty quality.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    75kbit???? 💀 💀 💀

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