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.
Are these the actual music files you can use to play as well?
Would be amazing if it was. I would love to just have Spotify’s music on my nas
I’d wager 70% of what’s on Spotify is not worth preserving since its AI slop.
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
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.
Interestingly enough, with the data they provide, figuring out how much of it is AI slop wouldn’t be that hard I think
If your nas has 300tb spare, you could.
How much could it cost $10,000
This gif is going to completely lose its punch in a couple years.
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.
You could budget this way down. I run 10+2 12TB with Unraid. No reason for a raid card if it’s for archive and personal use.
Considering the Price per TB is 10-11 US dollars, it’s gonna cost $3500 max
10US dollar per TB?? 🤣🤣 More like 30/35€ per TB for a good graded HDD!
Let’s not talk about SSDs or nvme which are more in the 120€/TB.
I always hear people say that storage comes cheap nowaday… I’m still looking for that cheap HDD on amazon… It has been 10 years 🤣🤣
$10/TB is a bit low, but not far off. Serverpartdeals has refurbed enterprise/NAS drives at about $15/TB right now, and thats with the AI pressure driving up prices. I recall seeing 18TB drives around $12/TB a few months back.
The above is well loved vendor in the IT space. Much better place to buy from than Amazon, as they actually guarantee their inventory is legitimate.
US of A often has way lower hdd prices compared to Europe.
Take the serverpartdeals price and add shipping and import tax.
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It seems this post was locked down for some reason so I couldn’t reply sooner.
Here you go -
$10.61/TB - HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080AL5200 | 0F23268 | 8TB 7.2K RPM 128MB Cache SAS 12Gb/s 512E 3.5"
$10.83/TB - WD-40 Ultrastar HE12 12TB SAS 512E
$12.65/TB - Seagate Expansion Desktop 26TB, Externe Harde Schijf, 3.5"
$13.63/TB - Seagate Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0
If it weren’t for AI creating a shortage of drives, these prices would’ve been even cheaper
Is it that cheap now?? I would kill for 10tb
It’s nowhere near that cheap.
Here you go mate. They dont have 10TB in stock, but the do have 20TB refurbs at around $15/TB.
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Where are you getting $430? Im seeing $306, which puts the per TB at $15.34.
A lot closer to the $10 the poster above was talking about than the $30-35 the person mocking him was saying drives cost.
Its also a refurbed drive from a well trusted, quality vendor that does testing on each drive and offers a 3 year warrenty.
I read it as 30tb in my head. 300tb is a bit more than i can manage
The article claims that they are:
They’ve released torrents of the metadata, and they plan to release the music files, but they haven’t yet. They intend to start by offering the downloads as bulk torrents, but they’re open to considering implementing the ability to download single songs in the future.
So in short, yes, but you can’t download them yet