Has anyone tried to self host this? Of course, hosting 300tb isn’t practical, so any solution would need to download the metadata and songs on demand.
Wow this is so revolutionary.
Never in the history of the internet has music been available for free.
Not this easily with accurate tags and art it hasn’t.
They more often than torrents do have the wrong tags when its not English music. Took me way too many emails to google music and Spotify before they stopped screaming at me with ALL CAPS on one album and before removing the dots after album track names (1. Track Name), not to mention the ones named TRACK 1, etc.
Uhh get on a real site and it has been.
Help me out. Where?
Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we’re golden.
Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.
When copyright dies so rich conglomerates can make money by monetizing out toys and collectibles and theme parks from smaller creators content without paying a dime back to them? Copyright is beneficial. Copyright is good. It needs reform, yes, but don’t mistake that with the concept being bad.
You should NOT actively do something, for money. You should EXPECT it.
Otherwise you’ll eventually try to maximize profits and get rid of everything that made whatever you did good in the first place.
Already done. It’s called Torrent Streaming and lets you stream-on-demand anything that exists as a torrent without having to torrent anything yourself.
A client that can stream these Spotify torrents with an interface that works like Spotify (low bar, I know) will be awesome, but also including a database to match songs to artists so users can send money directly to the artists they listen to will make it revolutionary.
My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
Was there really much content on it that wasn’t already available in a torrent somewhere already?
I would be very surprised if it wasn’t, at best it’s stuff no one bothered with and somehow I expect that won’t get torrented much either.
Fuck… Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes
The price for
restoredrefurbished HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so agoRestored HDDs?
He probably means refurbished
I know, I read about this news, but nowhere did I find this torrent file that they are talking about, do you know where they sent it to what site, and if this is just for the sake of information, do I condemn piracy?🧐
I think you’re looking for this page.
1st time in my life I get a
Error HTTP 451even had to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content https://annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.
Error HTTP 451
genius
“Condemn” or “condone”? While similar sounding, those two words have basically opposite meaning. Yay English!
Don’t even get started on our homophones. XD
Dude it’s 2025 you can’t use that word anymore
How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?
On their torrent page it’s explained more but it’s broken up into many many torrents and you basically say how much space you’re willing to host and it generates one with the least seeded “blob”.
I don’t really know how that would work on the back end but it seems technically impressive.
Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!
Given some of the collections I’ve seen on private trackers I’d say there is going to be quite a few seeding this in its entirety.
You mean if they wipe their collection to make space. Private sites probably have better quality than Spotify.
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊
Based
I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server
Didn’t know Plex could handle music libraries
Yeah it’s awesome, you get to spend all of your time chasing stupid issues like it picking the dumbest artist name possible and using it for 30 albums because one artist was on two of those albums, or deciding that 50% of your artists should be Lastname, Firstname but the other 50% should be Firstname Lastname. Then half the time it will use its own metadata for cover art and the other half it’ll use metadata in the files. Doesn’t matter how meticulous you are with your music tags an whether or not you have musicbrainz’d all of them to be consistent, it still finds a way to screw things up pretty much reliably.
But it’s all worth it because PlexAmp is surprisingly good once you’ve done the legwork and fixed all the stupid shit and I would much rather buy music directly and self-host my own music streaming system than pay spotify monthly.
Blog post about the backup
Interesting post. There was one artist with popularity = 100 but they didn’t mention who it was
Is it down for anyone else?
It’s DNS-blocked e.g. in Germany (german source). Try it with a proper DNS resolver. E.g. 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1
Idk I’m able to open the link.
Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said “It’s like Spotify 10 years ago.” as if that’s a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.
I love Qobus. I heard they also pay the artists more fairly. It’s just unfortunate that some big artists are still missing. And from what I can see subscriptions only work via the Google Play store.
And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!
Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.
Tidal didn’t work when I had all my privacy settings enabled. It straight up didn’t work on the browser on Linux while blocking trackers. If I can’t run your app with full blocker settings, then I am not going to run your app.
Umm
Umm what? That I wasn’t happy I got charged three months for a service I repeatedly cancelled?
I think the confusion is that you basically said “Tidal lost me when they lost me.”
A customer can come back in the future. But probably not after this.
I canceled to shift my charge date originally. Then it became permanent
It sounds like they lost you in 3 months, not immediately.
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I tried Tidal but they have a glitch on their app where downloaded songs get stuck and playlists stop downloading. They’ve had a bug open about it for at least three years last I checked. It may sound niche, but I’m often traveling and use offline music regularly
I have 3gb of space to share. Are there 150 other people like me that want to do some distributed hosting? What technology can handle this?
Torrents manage this without any extra tech. Just grab the .torrent file, and only select the files you have space for. Download them then seed, and get your 150 friends to do different files. If I then go to download a file that’s in your batch, the download will happen from your server (and whoever else is seeding these files), and if I go to download a file that’s on one of your 150 others’ server it’ll download from there.
Yes, almost. But i want it to seem like i have all 400tb on my 3tb drive. I want the cache to handle downloads automatically and I want an even spread of files so that none get lost.
Torrents give me:
- Chunking
- Redundancy via multiple seeders
- Partial downloads
But they do not give me:
- A unified filesystem view
- Automatic caching & eviction
Guarantees that every file stays available- User side load balancing or placement control
A way to say “this file must exist on N peers”
Maybe I should be typing this into a LLM.
Edit: ChatGPT is suggesting an IPFS Cluster
Edit 2: If the torrents stays active I can remove some requirements
Ahh fair enough! Yeah, not sure about all that.
A very long time ago I remember there being FUSE filesystems that allow you to mount a .torrent like a network drive. I have no idea if these are still kicking though. Still doesn’t provide all of your extra bullet points but might be a good start to the rabbit hole
Fuse looks like a good way to make the 3tb look like 400tb but it doesn’t do the replication bit.
I’m commenting these ideas publicly because maybe others will join in. Thanks for playing along!
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
Shit me, 200gb in metadata, 2.2TB in cover art before we even touch a piece of music! Wild
Its also crazy when you realise the amount of knowledge an experienced data analyst could gain from 200gb of metadata.
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there’s people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they’re succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
100%
…and Archive.org
And Wikipedia.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
What I used to do is google the name of the album and append to it “cover itunes”. Usually I would find high quality images of the albums that way
Have they actually been indexed?
There is 200gb of just metadata
4TB if you include all with popularity=0 iirc
what a beautiful, simple and well designed website
I would never bookmark such a site! [clicks bookmark button]
Download and seed seed seed
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
“address not found”
Get better DNS
Nah, checked Wikipedia. Germany is one of the countries that entirely blocks the site.
Luckily I live in Denmark, and Denmark doesn’t block the archive. So when I’m back home I’ll certainly be checking it out.
Not all of Germany. There is this one for example, works like a charm:
People are saying it’s 300TB but this link is only 200GB why?
The 200GB is the metadata sqlite database only
God damn! That’s essentially just text, right? Or would it also include album cover art?
It includes cover art and also preview clips. In this blog post you can read what their database contains: https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.
Not released yet
cue Padme
‘And avoid it?’ — ‘To avoid it, right?!’
