It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven't found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong π€
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
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As far as Iβve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of βrareβ music.
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, itβs roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the βpopularity=0β stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossless stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossy music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
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All tracks within the top 99.6% of listens are supposed to be high quality
It's not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That's actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.
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Is this new? Aren't most tracks already available in torrents?
It's new insofar as this is one big scrape. About 300TB iirc.
300tb is a lot, but its kind of crazy to think this entire company only needs 300tb storage arrays to function. I wonder how they handle things internally. I would imagine at least 1 backup server ready to go in HA. I wonder if they have multiple regions across the country that also serves up the same setup.
This isnt the entirety of Spotify. If they would have archived everything in 160kbps OGG Vorbis it would have been 700+TB. Theres A bucket load of songs that literally no one listens to.
Likely cloned Netflix's "netflix in a box" design, where they drop a large 200TB+ NAS in thousands of different CDN datecenters with their most popular content cached so that total traffic is minimal across the internet at large.
Spotify mainly being music with very little video likely makes this even easier.
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