Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we’re golden.
Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.
Fuck… Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes
The price for restored HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so ago
My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off
Based
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊
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.
99% of the “original” Spotify’s contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.
They break this down on their page, but while that’s certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.
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.
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
- 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
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!
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.
But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?
In between
It’s not in MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis and I don’t have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.
They claim usual people can’t tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I’m picky so I know I’ll notice something.
Remembering t this is Anna’s archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.
ogg is better than mp3 at lower bit rates. As they increase in bit rate they become indistinguishable.
That said, this stuff is way too low quality to care about.
I remember hearing something about Ogg vorbis being outmoded by some other Ogg? I don’t know I’ve moved from mp3 to FLAC personally.
Yes, Ogg Vorbis’s sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That’s why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with
popularity = 0opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files withpopularity > 0.
Spotify has bitrate options
They’re talking about the files Anna’s archive is torrenting.
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!
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
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?
It sounds like they lost you in 3 months, not immediately.
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
I’m saying I don’t have $0.0003
BLESSED
Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
I got half a quesadilla and a shiny rock
