Don't worry Spotify. I'm not a pirate. I'm an "AI researcher".

I've even got as much coding cred as Eli Yudkowsky.

This is the same "preservation" group that sell data contracts to AI corporations like NVidia, right?

not sure if it's very related but apparently spotify is killing their api. hopefully annas releases proper dumps that can replace it..

https://old.reddit.com/r/spotifyapi/comments/1qxv9wm/spotify_api_changes_were_doomed/ (screenshot attached)

Hope Anna's has a good Onion site setup... Cause they are gonna probably have to rely on that soon enough.

K now someone make a script that compares your Spotify library to the torrent and downloads all songs please...

While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.

What are they gonna do? Punish them with trillions more in debt?

Meh, whenever I go through spotify looking for the albums I like, about 40% of them aren't even on there. You're better off not bothering with their shite.

The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.

Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can't properly participate.

Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas...

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.

Where? I checked the torrents JSON mentioned there and there's no text match on 'spotify'... did it get removed or am I looking at the wrong JSON?