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[–] 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I really don't see this as being useful for anyone outside of hard archivest. The bitrates are pretty trash. I guess if you just a setup with an incredible amount of music no matter what, this is for you. IMHO the meta data is worth more than these lower quality sound files although we have meta data for what's out there now.

Outside of that here is what and how they are going to release. I'm guessing this drop was their "popular" track drop. From their site:

For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    The point of AA is the archiving.

    Anyways, from a listening perspective, 160kbit vorbis is audibly lossless I think, and there are many songs on here that are not possible to find elsewhere. For popular songs you want, yeah, just download the Flac elsewhere.

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  • [+] -6 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I can only speak to what a 75kbps mp3 sounds like, but unless Opus is like 3x+ better at compression, it's going to sound like complete dogshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know what 75 kbps opus sounds like, but I can tell you how 32 kbps sounds. Versus mp3 at that bitrate, it sounds actually listenable, while mp3 sounds like you're underwater.

    All things considered, the Spotify songs probably sound fine at 75.

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