A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
  • hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    34·
    7 hours ago

    trying to locate individual tracks in massive torrent files of presumably 10,000’s of tracks each sounds horrible, Meta data and tracks and located in different areas. Audio is reencoded to OGG Opus.

    For this to be useful for me I would have to spend about $6000 on hard drives (20/terabyte X 300 TB), than convert the files to MP3, and somehow rename the files to their original songs and artists and create appropriate directories.

    Do not think this is practical.

    https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Archival and practical use are different goals. This is not about making it easy to use as a music library

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Or stop being an idiot and consider using self-hosted media solutions that handle the metadata for you. Like Plex, Jellyfin, or any of the roughly three dozen options here.

      The right torrent client will also allow you to pick and choose which files to download, and you could even go a step further and add a new source provider to e.g. Lidarr that would handle these torrent files and pick out the music you want.

      Result?

      • no need to transcode to MP3 (not sure why you’d want to do that anyway when OPUS files can be played by practically any modern device)
      • no need to manually do any namings
      • no need to manually get metadata
      • no need to get 300TB storage

      Hell if you really wanted to, you could even vibe code a solution that includes a torrent client, these music torrents, and a web interface + API that provides all the necessary info for existing clients to be essentially used as a quasi Spotify alternative, only downloading music you actually listen to.

      • skarn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        OPUS files can be played by practically any modern device

        The radio of my car (bought in 2020) begs to differ.

        • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Then you’re either transcoding when burning the CD or plugging in a modern player via aux, aren’t you?

          I understand why people might not want a music library in FLAC, but just pre-transcoding everything to MP3 in 2025 just seems silly

        • fonix232@fedia.io
          11·
          2 hours ago

          Given you can buy a car made in the 1950s in 2020, that statement is worth about as much as the dump I just took

          • skarn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            4 minutes ago

            Only if you think I’m here to screw you over.

            It was a new car. A Skoda Fabia. Ordered in January, delivered in May after the first lockdown. The autoradio supports AAC, MP3, FLAC, WMA and vorbis.

            And I do use the SD slot, with a dozen GB of MP3. Anything fancier does not make much sense in a car.