I think it's quite important from the perspective of media preservation. We basically have a snapshot of music from a time where it was mostly Human-Made.
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I agree, but on the flip side this will 100% be used to train new music generation models lol...
Wow this is so revolutionary.
Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.
Not this easily with accurate tags and art it hasn't.
They more often than torrents do have the wrong tags when its not English music. Took me way too many emails to google music and Spotify before they stopped screaming at me with ALL CAPS on one album and before removing the dots after album track names (1. Track Name), not to mention the ones named TRACK 1, etc.
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My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.
Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.
Already done. It's called Torrent Streaming and lets you stream-on-demand anything that exists as a torrent without having to torrent anything yourself.
A client that can stream these Spotify torrents with an interface that works like Spotify (low bar, I know) will be awesome, but also including a database to match songs to artists so users can send money directly to the artists they listen to will make it revolutionary.
When copyright dies so rich conglomerates can make money by monetizing out toys and collectibles and theme parks from smaller creators content without paying a dime back to them? Copyright is beneficial. Copyright is good. It needs reform, yes, but don't mistake that with the concept being bad.
You should NOT actively do something, for money. You should EXPECT it.
Otherwise you'll eventually try to maximize profits and get rid of everything that made whatever you did good in the first place.
Abolishing copyright exclusive and only works if you abolish money with it. Otherwise you're only benefiting the largest corporations, despite what you think, it won't be the small guy winning
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That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
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Has anyone tried to self host this? Of course, hosting 300tb isn't practical, so any solution would need to download the metadata and songs on demand.
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
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Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said "It's like Spotify 10 years ago." as if that's a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
Tidal didn't work when I had all my privacy settings enabled. It straight up didn't work on the browser on Linux while blocking trackers. If I can't run your app with full blocker settings, then I am not going to run your app.
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I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐
I think you're looking for this page.
1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.
Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.
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I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server
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How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
On their torrent page it's explained more but it's broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you're willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded "blob".
I don't really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.
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As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossy stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
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Fuck... Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes
The price for ~~restored~~ refurbished HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so ago
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Was there really much content on it that wasn't already available in a torrent somewhere already?
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It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
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