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[–] fennesz12@feddit.dk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I agree, but on the flip side this will 100% be used to train new music generation models lol...

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago
[–] MattW03@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

But are the files high quality, or is it the same low bitrate garbage they send to their users ?

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[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was there really much content on it that wasn't already available in a torrent somewhere already?

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