- I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.
- Convenience won.
How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?
- I'm not sure why nobody else is seeing this, but this was a MASSIVE operations failure on Spotify. Any other company would've noticed an attacker downloading 86 million songs / 256m metadata. This is showing they cut corners. 2/3 their purpose as a streaming platform is to protect the digital content they licensed, and they failed miserably.
- Anti scraping measures are making it more difficult to use the web. I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.
- I'm hoping that this metadata leak can revive projects like https://everynoise.com
Spotify (and netflix etc..) have become very hostile to exposing their catalogue over API, so i'm glad they've gotten open sourced :)
- Probably a net positive for future open source music generation LLM models
- wasn't spotify started out as a collection of pirated songs? somethings go in full circle I guess.
by puppycodes
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- long live anna's archive.
a true gift to humanity.
by mystraline
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- Oooh, scary. "Investigations!"
This is a archivalist institution that actively ignores "copyright" to further the art and science of our shared media legacy.
And frankly, public libraries would absolutely be deemed illegal if they were made 10 years ago. (And it was only because rich people like Rockefeller wanted to wash their actual history with a social-happy persona.)
- Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339
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