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Post by unparagoned »

NoGravitas wrote: post #585
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.…

Weird Al pointed out in 2023 that his 80 million Spotify views that year netted him $12 - enough for a nice sandwich.

He admitted that he exaggerated for comic effect

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Post by parodysbird »

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

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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.

It's crazy how convenient and deep the library on soulseek is. I even use it all the time on mobile.

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Post by zuspotirko »

writebetterc wrote: post #613
zuspotirko wrote: post #436

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> The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumers/listeners, since Spotify itself is so convenient, and trying to locate individual tracks in massive torrent files of presumably 10,000's of tracks each sounds horrible. Are you aware Annas Archive already solved the exact same problem with books?

I am not, how did they solve that?

Basically there is an entity between Annas Archive and the torrents: hosters. AA has searchable metadata and a hash value. The hosters keep track of hash values, the cached files and in which torrents they are backed up, and take up almost the entire legal liability. Users search on AA what they are looking for but ultimately download it from a hoster.

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Post by pekkag »

Extremely useful statistics. However, users need to know that IRSC codes are not really unique identifiers. The code was created to identify unique digital tracks (recordings). When older analog recordings (there are millions of them) the publisher assigns it an ISRC code, which shows the year of reissue. If the recording is in public domain, anyone can reissue it and assign it a new ISRC code. Even if the recording is still in copyright, the company can assign each new rerelease a new code - all with a different year. So be careful with interpreting statistics based on these codes.

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Post by pranavm27 »

Miss anna, next time please scale down image dimensions so that us on mobile can read properly haha

Jokes aside, I always thought the best way to deal with piracy was to understand or convince the demand not to do it over dealing with the supply.

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Post by wobfan »

oarfish wrote: post #627
NoahZuniga wrote: post #458

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Pretty sure this was a thing in the past, but that currently it has to be a court order.

The wikipedia article seems to concur with you, although this seems to be a voluntary policy by CUII, the members could still decide to not wait for any court orders and block whatever they want.

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/die-cuii-gibt-auf-fuer-netzsper...

It's not voluntary anymore, it's required.

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Post by uncivilized »

rldjbpin wrote: post #562
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:…

about the scale, the same album in the tracker had several submissions, for dedicated format and regional editions. while one can compare in terms of number of tracks, the quality used to be in another level altogether. from the article: > The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. meanwhile the tracker had 16/24-bit flac rips of vinyl, with decent quality control where the track's metadata was verified for…

It's 160kbit/s for popularity>0 and 75kbit/s for popularity=0. I'm surprised Anna's Archive went for this given that these are not archival quality bitrates. It appears they did this because they found a way, rather than seeking to create a library of music.
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