The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 9:56 AM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #9

Adamantcheese wrote: post #8

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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 w…

Post by misterdoubt » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 11:09 AM UTC

sea-shore wrote: post #12

How does copyright work on lost data?

Post by jakelazaroff » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #3

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

Post by textfiles » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

cannam wrote: post #4

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.

Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

misterdoubt wrote: post #14

peterburkimsher wrote: post #9

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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 w…

Something that Amarok, Audacious, and Rhythmbox aren't already bringing to the world of iTunes alternatives?