The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by sohkamyung » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 6:49 AM UTC

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)
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Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by afro88 » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 8:13 AM UTC

This is great, but I wish it went back a year earlier. My friend and I had some music up on Myspace until late 2007 when we decided to start fresh on Soundcloud. It would be great to hear that early stuff again!

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by Tepix » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 8:15 AM UTC

Sounds like something straight out of https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by cannam » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 8:46 AM UTC

See also this archive recovered earlier from a different academic study by Ben Fields et al: https://archive.org/details/myspace_thesis - this new archive appears to be much bigger, but I don't know whether it incorporates the earlier one.

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by apples_oranges » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

I didn't know archive.org runs old games by emulation right in the browser. That's just fantastic!

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

This 1.3 TB collection of MP3s is wonderful! The Hobbit search/player makes it much more manageable.

There's some rare songs from a band I like (Something Like Silas) that I know are in the archive. Is there some way to contribute to the Hobbit player so I can add a direct download button for a specific song? Otherwise I'll have to pull the whole 1.3 TB (I will, but it'll take a few days and I really hope this doesn't get hit by a takedown notice within that time).

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by Nition » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:19 AM UTC

I was really hoping to find the tracks this user was looking for some time ago[1]. Alas, they don't seem to be in the collection.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/7uiv8b/myspace... "There are a couple of songs that it is of the utmost importance that I acquire..."

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by Adamantcheese » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #6

This 1.3 TB collection of MP3s is wonderful! The Hobbit search/player makes it much more manageable. There's some rare songs from a band I like (Something Like Silas) that I know are in the archive. Is there some way to contribute to the Hobbit player so I can add a direct download button for a specific song? Otherwise I'll have to pull the whole 1.3 TB (I will, but it'll take a few days and I really hope this doesn'…

There doesn't appear to be any way to contribute. The source for the viewer is here: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_searcher

Using Firefox, if you open up viewer.js in the debugger and set a breakpoint on line 265 where archiveurl is being set and select a track to play, you should be able to manually pick out either the zip file that contains it, or the file inside with the weird, jumbled name.

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

Adamantcheese wrote: post #8

peterburkimsher wrote: post #6

This 1.3 TB collection of MP3s is wonderful! The Hobbit search/player makes it much more manageable. There's some rare songs from a band I like (Something Like Silas) that I know are in the archive. Is there some way to contribute to the Hobbit player so I can add a direct download button for a specific song? Otherwise I'll have to pull the whole 1.3 TB (I will, but it'll take a few days and I really hope this doesn'…

There doesn't appear to be any way to contribute. The source for the viewer is here: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_searcher Using Firefox, if you open up viewer.js in the debugger and set a breakpoint on line 265 where archiveurl is being set and select a track to play, you should be able to manually pick out either the zip file that contains it, or the file inside with the weird, jumbled name.

Thank you! I guess if you're interested in this, then you probably also like music and coding. I taught myself AppleScript so I could manage iTunes tags when I was a teenager. The new redesigns look pretty ugly to me, so I'm still using iTunes 10.6.3, and I replaced the rsrc to get coloured icons.

In the medium term, I'd rather rewrite my own offline music player. I don't like YouTube/Spotify streaming of pop music with ads, I like my rare indie MP3s ripped from demo CDs or from repairing a friend's iPod back in 2006. The column browser and playlist folders are essential for me to keep things organised, and smart playlists are far easier to understand than SQL queries.

Would anybody else be interested in rewriting iTunes together? It's one of the few reasons I haven't yet hopped to Linux. (also the trackpad driver, and osascript being built-in to every app).

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Post by jzzskijj » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #6

This 1.3 TB collection of MP3s is wonderful! The Hobbit search/player makes it much more manageable. There's some rare songs from a band I like (Something Like Silas) that I know are in the archive. Is there some way to contribute to the Hobbit player so I can add a direct download button for a specific song? Otherwise I'll have to pull the whole 1.3 TB (I will, but it'll take a few days and I really hope this doesn'…

I opened metadata.tsv from here: https://archive.org/download/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010/

Used text editor's search to find what ever I need. Then "View Contents" on the correct ZIP file and download the mp3 file the search in text editor gave me. Therefore I just had to download the songs I wanted to get back to me.