Anna's Archive scraped ~300TB Spotify, it's an interesting read (few snippets):

Generally speaking, music is already fairly well preserved. There are many music enthusiasts in the world who digitized their CD and LP collections, shared them through torrents or other digital means, and meticulously catalogued them.

However, these existing efforts have some major issues:

Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.
Over-focus on the highest possible quality. Since these are created by audiophiles with high end equipment and fans of a particular artist, they chase the highest possible file quality (e.g. lossless FLAC). This inflates the file size and makes it hard to keep a full archive of all music that humanity has ever produced.
No authoritative list of torrents aiming to represent all music ever produced. An equivalent of our book torrent list (which aggregate torrents from LibGen, Sci-Hub, Z-Lib, and many more) does not exist for music.

This Spotify scrape is our humble attempt to start such a “preservation archive” for music. Of course Spotify doesn’t have all the music in the world, but it’s a great start.

Before we dive into the details of this collection, here is a quick overview:

Spotify has around 256 million tracks. This collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of tracks.
We archived around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size.
We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
The cutoff is 2025-07, anything released after that date may not be present (though in some cases it is).
This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.
This is the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space).

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)
[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)
[ ] Album art
[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)


https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
.....so, are your tracks and sick beats now part of the history?

 

I also read this todays Morning on tarnkappe.info.

This is Huge

 

nice wonder if I made the cut

 

So many questions!

Is this legal? Who pays the server bill? Where is the server hosting the songs located?
Will Spotify sue? What about the rights of the musicians to their own songs?

 

...noooo, stopped paying Distrokid...

 

Oh my gosh, how awful

 

if you train AI on it, then it's legal

 

Mark Z the Meta knows about it quite well

 

Suno and udio already got everything they wanted thru youtube, spotify and other streaming sources

 

This reminds me of The Pirate Bay; before his arrest in 2014, he had his server in a Swedish bank.
Swedish police raided the bank on May 31, 2006, and seized the server.

 

now wonder why people complain about AI music quality being bad

 

Anyone now can build his own Spotify, with blackjack, and hookers!

 

I find the published charts interesting, how electronic/dance became the most dominating in their catalogue and funny how psytrance is being the most the most occupied spamful genre
God knows how many electronic human/AI created generic rubbish is buried there

 

Last edited: Dec 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM

im more interested in NASAs archieve.. would be amazing get all their files

 

top secret as 43 terabytes of Epstein Files

 

Now I want a 300TB NAS. Already have the GPU for Tensorflow

 

The royal family are into UFOs so that doesn't surprise me...

 

Yes they do

 

I am very lonely LOL