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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by k12sosse »

komali2 wrote: post #346
timcobb wrote: post #312

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> and a way to download that without my ISP doing something about it. what would your ISP do?

When I left my apartment back in 2018, I was switching the Comcast account over to my housemate who was staying on there. In doing so I discovered I had a myname2342@comcast.com email account. The UI showed something like 8,000 unread emails. Bemused, I opened it to see what kind of spam it had accumulated. None at all! It was just under 8,000 DMCA / torrent warning emails from Comcast itself. "We know you torrented…

This is called Speculative Invoicing, some law farm submitted a c&d and requested your subscriber information, Comcast hopefully threw the request in the trash but forwarded the complaint to you.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by amitav1 »

amitav1 wrote: post #222
gmueckl wrote: post #178

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But then you have a money trail connecting the company unambiguously to copyright violations on a scale that is arguably larger than Napster.

Yeah,how devstating it would be for Anna's Archive to be found skirting copyright laws. Their reputation may never recover. \s

Ah, yikes, just ignore this comment, my literacy skills failed me here.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by hugholousk »

crazygringo wrote: post #11

This is insane. I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this. 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. But this does seem like it will be a godsend for researche…

This makes me think that after the crack, they probably had to come up with a formula that can statistically calculate how fast they should download spotify songs without letting Spotify realizing that they're scraping the company data and block the access. Remind me of Alan Turing formula after cracking the Enigma

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Post by rldjbpin »

uncivilized wrote: post #720
rldjbpin wrote: post #562

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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.

my comparison was with source catalog in spotify compared to the private tracker. spotify is working on the high fidelity mode, but so far it is not rolled out worldwide.

i completely understand the archive's decision on applying their own compression.

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Post by realdeal79 »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #474

For a fully-legal alternative of metadata archiving, I suggest the iTunes EPF (Enterprise Partner Feed). https://performance-partners.apple.com/epf The best metadata I've found, though, is the MySpace Dragon Hoard: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010 That included the artist location, allowing me to tag songs based on their country. I then created playlists such as "NERAS" Non-English Rock Artist Sa…

With the MySpace stuff, where are you seeing the metadata? All of the the zips I’ve downloaded from the Dragon Hoard don’t have any metadata.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by peterburkimsher »

realdeal79 wrote: post #726
peterburkimsher wrote: post #474

For a fully-legal alternative of metadata archiving, I suggest the iTunes EPF (Enterprise Partner Feed). https://performance-partners.apple.com/epf The best metadata I've found, though, is the MySpace Dragon Hoard: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010 That included the artist location, allowing me to tag songs based on their country. I then created playlists such as "NERAS" Non-English Rock Artist Sa…

With the MySpace stuff, where are you seeing the metadata? All of the the zips I’ve downloaded from the Dragon Hoard don’t have any metadata.

https://archive.org/details/myspace_artist_data_dump_2009

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Post by leetbulb »

selectodude wrote: post #163
some-guy wrote: post #101

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Redacted.sh is a worthy successor, but the average person just doesn’t care about “which release is best” anymore. I use YT Music as a backup but Redacted is my main source of music these days.

At the end of the day it feels like the private trackers are such a nightmare to get invited to and maintain ratio at it’s just not worth the effort. I want this torrent though. It would be fun to stand up a NAS for this.

If you share your email somehow, I can invite you.

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Post by arm32 »

paraknight wrote: post #661
flxy wrote: post #75

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I think what earned what.cd that title wasn't necessarily just the amount but the quality, as you mentioned, as well as the obscurity of a lot of the offered material. I remember finding an early EP of an unknown local band on there, and I live in the middle of nowhere in Europe. There were also quite a few really old and niche records on there which possibly couldn't be put on streaming services due to the ownership…

What.cd were extreme sticklers for quality! When you applied to get in, they did a live interview on IRC to test your knowledge of ripping, transcoding, and different kinds of compression, how torrents and private trackers work, and their code of conduct. I remember studying for it. They also had ways to make sure you weren't cheating like checking your screen, as well as very aggressive automated checks for VPNs and…

I must have joined at a different time because all I needed for me, a total annoying script kiddie leech, just needed an invite code (or link? I forget)
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