I think it's quite important from the perspective of media preservation. We basically have a snapshot of music from a time where it was mostly Human-Made.
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I agree, but on the flip side this will 100% be used to train new music generation models lol...
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99% of the "original" Spotify's contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.
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But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?
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Was there really much content on it that wasn't already available in a torrent somewhere already?
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