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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (www.billboard.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728

Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

A lot of it probably.

They have a breakdown of the data on their blog. If you scroll down to album releases by date, you can see a very sharp uptick in releases, with around ~2 million albums in 2019 to ~11 million albums in 2024.

They even make a comment on it likely being inflated by AI:

If we group albums by release year, we see that more and more new music is added to Spotify, a lot of it likely automatically generated: [...] The amount of procedurally and AI generated content makes it hard to find what is actually valuable.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You should watch this video:

    The dark side of Spotify from Slightly Sociable.

    It's about short AI music created for phone farms to steal royalties away from real artists. It's a whole business model and Spotify encourages this malicious practice as all those phones use premium to earn money faster, and 33% of that money goes to Spotify. Plus they do other illegal stuff like promote music from stake holder companies over other music.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Thanks for sharing the vid; that was insanely fascinating, even if a bit depressing.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    What's even more depressing is that there isn't a proper alternative. Many music streaming services have their own flaws. A friend of mine recommended Deezer, as it has really high quality streams but that one is owned by a Russian oligarch.

    Artists are paid the most with Apple music but Apple is a shit company as well. Streaming is all fucked, same with movies / shows.

    If you want to support the artists, buy their music on Bandcamp. Musicians are having it hard, they need our support. They deserve our money. It's the pirate code: pirate from the mega corps and billionaires, support the little guys.

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