Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library

Post by bopbopbop7 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

breppp wrote: post #68

bopbopbop7 wrote: post #60

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Nice wall of text, which part of that says painters jobs were killed? Or did you just read the title of the second article and not realize it’s not being literal but capturing the anxiety of the painters in the 19th century?

I think the first article which is highly recommended (where the excerpt comes from) goes over subsequent effects on the profession. The second one goes over the different genres that disappeared, and concerns less with the artists themselves Apart from that our interaction seem overly emotional for me so I'd leave it as that

Post by lm28469 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

breppp wrote: post #53

lm28469 wrote: post #48

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> It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences It's very obvious that it's polluting and/or killing everything it touched so far though

it's an automatic bullshit machine so essentially it creates cliches as an automatic process this doesn't mean this can't be controlled by someone talented

Post by FireBeyond » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 11:03 PM UTC

geraldmcboing wrote: post #70

FireBeyond wrote: post #64

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They're all for the rules, now. How many people remember how Spotify... uhhh... "seeded" its music database at the start? (There's a hint in my question.)

also: "Musicians might note that 87% of tracks will now receive the same payment from Anna’s Archive as they do from Spotify: zero." https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/anti-copyright-extremists

Post by NoPicklez » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 11:52 PM UTC

twostorytower wrote: post #39

firloop wrote: post #3

I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.

Anna's archive offers to share their data for AI training (in exchange for donations), so that's certainly something the record labels want control of. https://annas-archive.org/llm

Post by NoPicklez » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 11:58 PM UTC

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #69

firloop wrote: post #66

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Maybe I was too hyperbolic, but when I read the original Anna's Archive announcement post, I appreciated their dedication to archiving content that may be lost one day. They called the effort "Backing up Spotify" and emphasized the good that opening the data could do. It's not about enabling piracy. Following Anna's logic, I was calling on Spotify to stop "investigating" archivists. Spotify could instead be engaging…

I was looking for a song recently and can't find it. The artist was banned from YouTube and looks like they took their album off Spotify. An archive like this is good for preserving stuff from smaller artists like that