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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)
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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I know there's a lot of music out there, but I would have guessed the number was still less than 86,000,000 on Spotify.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago*

    I read a bit of Anna's article and if I remember correctly there are something like 256 million tracks on Spotify. Mind you this includes things like white noise tracks.

    But 86 million tracks represent 99.6% of listens or something like that. Most tracks don't get played much if at all

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