"According to the group, "We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. While this only represents 37 percent of songs, it represents around 99.6 percent of listens." The first torrent released says it contains metadata, such as album art, song title, and artist name, belonging to 99.9 percent of Spotify's 256 million tracks. The group says it plans to make the 300TB worth of music files available at a later date."
"Anna's Archive, which describes itself as "the world's largest shadow library," says it "backed up Spotify" as part of an attempt to create a "preservation archive" for music using Spotify's "popularity" metric to determine which tracks to download first. It says the metadata reveals information like which genre has the most tracks (Electronic/Dance, with 520,075), and that 120BPM is the most popular tempo."
Anna's Archive says it archived around 86 million Spotify songs, representing 37 percent of tracks but about 99.6 percent of listens, prioritized by popularity. The first released torrent reportedly contains metadata — album art, song title, and artist name — for 99.9 percent of Spotify's 256 million tracks. The group plans to release 300TB of music files at a later date. Anna's Archive describes itself as the world's largest shadow library and says it backed up Spotify to create a preservation archive using Spotify's popularity metric. Metadata reveals Electronic/Dance has 520,075 tracks and 120BPM is the most popular tempo. Spotify identified and disabled user accounts used for unlawful scraping, implemented new safeguards, and is monitoring for suspicious behavior. Google removed 749 million links to Anna's Archive domains after copyright complaints.
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