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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 1 hour ago

internet explorer bro

[–] verdi@feddit.org 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Now do Netflix, Prime, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Hulu and Apple and we're golden.

Would be a magical day the day copyright dies.

[–] hexonxonx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck... Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

The price for restored HDDs has already gone up compared to a year or so ago

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 37 points 7 hours ago

My very long game of avoiding spotify is finally paying off

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊

[–] Alexhudosnik@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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?🧐

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

1st time in my life I get a Error HTTP 451 even 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.

[–] Beartotem@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"Condemn" or "condone"? While similar sounding, those two words have basically opposite meaning. Yay English!

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Don't even get started on our homophones. XD

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Dude it's 2025 you can't use that word anymore

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 15 points 10 hours ago (4 children)
[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

Interesting post. There was one artist with popularity = 100 but they didn’t mention who it was

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[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

99% of the "original" Spotify's contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Zarajevo@feddit.org 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists and then stream music via my own Plex server

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't know Plex could handle music libraries

[–] n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

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