We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

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[–] notgold@aussie.zone 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify's music on my nas

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'd wager 70% of what's on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced AI slop can compete with the back log of organic slop personally.

But yeah a fuckton is probably slop either way

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

AI slop is accelerating exponentially for the foreseeable future. It won't take long for world data storage to be a limiting factor.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah as with most of the internet, it’s only worth downloading anything uploaded before 2023.

So far, LLMs have done so much more harm than help.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

That's what they're for.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn't be that hard I think

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How much could it cost $10,000

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

This gif is going to completely lose its punch in a couple years.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A RAID6 of 24 * 20TB drives could contain that with both parity and hotswap, with room to spare. Let's say $400 per refurb drive, $2500 rackmount SAS enclosure, $2000 SAS RAID card, $14,100 total. Assuming you already have the server and power and SAS cables.

[–] BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Considering the Price per TB is 10-11 US dollars, it's gonna cost $3500 max

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Is it that cheap now?? I would kill for 10tb

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

It's nowhere near that cheap.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Here you go mate. They dont have 10TB in stock, but the do have 20TB refurbs at around $15/TB.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Thx

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

I read it as 30tb in my head. 300tb is a bit more than i can manage