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The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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> accomplished using unknown means by an anonymous academic study That's ... that's not what academic means.

In contrast, this seems something like an actual anonymous academic study: https://internetcensus2012.github.io/InternetCensus2012/pape...

But, helpfully, semi-known means.

Re: The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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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.

Hi, author of the utility here. Yeah there wasn't a repo yet when we went live, I whipped the whole thing up in a night when Jason put out a request for helpers. I've now published the code for this player to Github, it's available at https://github.com/jbaicoianu/ia-myspace-music-search - pull requests welcome! Still figuring out which license Archive.org wants (I'm just a volunteer).

I've also added a download link to the player, so it's easier to get at the original mp3s now. However, it'll still have the obfuscated hash filename - I tried using the "download" attribute on the download href, but unfortunately it runs into issues with CORS.

I took a bunch of notes as I was developing this too, I'm planning on publishing it as a post soon. Keep an eye out for the follow-up!

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