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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by hamdingers »

lurk2 wrote: post #208
toomuchtodo wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You go where the money is. Infra isn’t free. Churches pass the plate every Sunday. Perhaps one day we’ll exist in a more optimal socioeconomic system; until then, you do what you have to do to accomplish your goals (in this context, archivists and digital preservation).

> Infra isn’t free. There is a certain irony in people providing copyrighted works for free justifying profiting from these copyrights on the basis that providing the works to others isn’t free.

Do you have evidence they are profiting? I'm genuinely curious how these kinds of archives sustain themselves.

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Post by ZeWaka »

platevoltage wrote: post #211
SSLy wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, WCD has two healthy replacements, plus slsk

Soulseek has to be the best kept secret on the internet. Even people my age who grew up with things like Napster, Limewire, and even soulseek, don’t know that it still exists.

The amount of extremely obscure music on there is crazy, stuff that exists nowhere else in the internet except maybe google drive links.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by ticoombs »

iknowstuff wrote: post #224
virtualritz wrote: post #207

I just found out that https://annas-archive.li/ is masked by my German internet provider (SIM.de/Drillisch). I usually use a VPN but I had it switched off temp. to watch Fallout (Prime Video won't let you watch through a VPN). Only when I switched Mullvad back on could I open the site. I didn't know German providers do this.

In that vein, I am trying to find out why searching for alextud popcorntime which should trivially yield http://github.com/alextud/PopcornTimeTV results in anything but that one particular URL in every search engine: Google, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Bing They even find a fork of that particular repo, which in turn links back to it, but refuse to show the result I want. Have't found any DMCA notices. What is going on?

They have marked the repo as noindex (or GitHub is forcing a noindex header).

Its returning a noindex flag so every serp is correctly doing what the repo has been asked.

That is... except for brave! I checked on my searx instance and it still showed up in brave's results

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by whstl »

jMyles wrote: post #269
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #265

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You have been able to buy DRM free digital music from all of the record labels since 2009 from Apple and other stores.

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever? Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free

The "iTunes going DRM free" was a big deal around 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070207234839/http://www.apple....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/may/15/drm.apple

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by ZeWaka »

iknowstuff wrote: post #224
virtualritz wrote: post #207

I just found out that https://annas-archive.li/ is masked by my German internet provider (SIM.de/Drillisch). I usually use a VPN but I had it switched off temp. to watch Fallout (Prime Video won't let you watch through a VPN). Only when I switched Mullvad back on could I open the site. I didn't know German providers do this.

In that vein, I am trying to find out why searching for alextud popcorntime which should trivially yield http://github.com/alextud/PopcornTimeTV results in anything but that one particular URL in every search engine: Google, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Bing They even find a fork of that particular repo, which in turn links back to it, but refuse to show the result I want. Have't found any DMCA notices. What is going on?

Very interesting. The security page does show up on kagi at #6.

I wonder if GitHub flags it to not be indexed or something.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by anjel »

nospice wrote: post #170
chrneu wrote: post #159

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this argument is so tired. most artists dont really care about streaming or selling their music. most of their real money comes from touring, merch, and people somehow interacting with them. most musicians just want to make music, express themselves, and connect with folks who enjoy their stuff or want to make music with em. Even some of the largest artists in the world only receive a few grand a year from streaming.…

> most artists dont really care about streaming or selling their music. most of their real money comes from touring, merch, and people somehow interacting with them. I think you have it the wrong way round. I'm sure that musicians would love to make money from album / song sales. It's just that between piracy and companies like Spotify, artists make pennies on these activities, so their only choice is to make money o…

I think it was was Les Claypool (of the band Primus) who said on some podcast that recording a studio album with its attendant very non-trivial costs is really just creating a very expensive business card to hand out to prospective clients.

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Post by b8 »

Etheryte wrote: post #28

To put this into perspective, What.CD [0] was widely considered to be the music library of Alexandria, unparalleled in both its high quality standard and it's depth. What had in the ballpark of a few million torrents when it got raided and shut down. Anna's rip of Spotify includes roughly 186 million unique records. Granted, the tail end is a mixed bag of bot music and whatnot, but the scale is staggering. [0] https:…

Redacted, their replacement has more records then they had now.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by acjohnson55 »

This is incredible. I once assembled a collection of 100,000 tracks for research on exploration of large music libraries. Essentially vector search. I was limited in storage and processing power to a single machine.

If I were to do it today, I could get so much farther with hyperscaler products and this dataset.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by venturecruelty »

basisword wrote: post #12
lelouch9099 wrote: post #2

How legal is this with regards to copyright laws?

It's not. It's awful people justifying awful behaviour. And it's why we can't have nice things. There are always assholes ready to exploit others.

You're talking about Spotify, right? Famously started by ad execs pirating music and then selling it.
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