Remember what they took from us
https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-greatest-music-collection-in-the-world
This is interesting, thanks!
Don’t know that I would be active enough for what.cd, but I am drawn to archiving, lossless files and comprehensive metadata.
I ripped my hundreds of CDs to FLAC and spent a good while organizing before Spotify came along with its temptations. Have started buying again on Bandcamp lately and been thinking about spinning up jellyfin.
Musicbrainz Picard + Emby/Jellyfin is a great combo. Emby servers double as navidrome servers so you can use myriad apps to listen.
News like this make me sad. I have not been able to replicate the amazing experience I had with Audiogalaxy or Soulseek. By looking for things you liked you could then search what the people who had that music also had lying around and I discovered so much great stuff that way. My taste in music is extremely eclectic but since I’ve been limited to Spotify, I am rarely discovering weird music anymore. Fuck corporations.
I have not been able to replicate the amazing experience I had with Audiogalaxy or Soulseek. […] My taste in music is extremely eclectic but since I’ve been limited to Spotify, I am rarely discovering weird music anymore. Fuck corporations.
Soulseek is still alive
I know. I haven’t been able to get it working, though.
Thanks. I just tried it and remembered why it wouldn’t work. It requires me to pass through a port in my router. That’s something I just don’t do anymore. The internet is a scary place these days, full of lawyers and other bad actors.
The treasure is still out there—we have merely lost the map.
Damn, I wish I could afford to buy 300TB of local data storage.
If only I had a spare 300TB of storage
I do have access to 300tb but do I want to use it for music?
What percentage of it would be something you actually enjoyed listening to?
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Archiving/preservation is separate to consuming the content.
Precisely. This isn’t for people who want to use it. This is for people who want to clone it.
Maybe 20%
Fyi just to support Annas you can go and tell them how much space you have to spare and generate a few magnet links for you.
Thanks Luffy and the rest of the straw hats as they fight the world government
I know there’s a lot of music out there, but I would have guessed the number was still less than 86,000,000 on Spotify.
Hmmmm, I need a new nas…
🏴☠️"Drink up me hartys! YO-HO!"🏴☠️
It’s both a *Ho*, *Ho*, *Ho* and a *Yarrr* moment.
kek
Does spotify already have lossless? Because fuck mp3s for archiving.
Spotify has flac for premium users. The releases are ogg.
Great, because I remember checking years before, and they still didn’t have lossless. Finally they caught up.
Still won’t pay.
"Relatively popular songs are stored in their original 160kbit/s OGG Vorbis quality, while the rest use 75kbit/s "
I don’t know OGG files but if that is comparable to MP3s of the same quality then it is all pretty shitty quality.
75kbit OGG Vorbis is like maybe 128kb mp3, while 160kb Vorbis is indistinguishable from CD quality for most people on most equipment.
But MY equipment is special
/s
75kbit??? 💀 💀 💀
What’s wrong? That’s just standard audio quality.
Even YT has 128kb/s, and YouTube audio quality is the bare minimum for the majority of people not to complain
Youtube doesn’t define what’s standard and what’s not because it’s backed by a multi-billion dollar company which could make all audio playback there 100% lossless if it wanted to.
Damn, I’d be open to if somone could host this, I’d actually pay a monthly subscription to an individual rather than spotify
That was my first thought as well
Who actually cares? This stuff was already available.
It is this just bait to get y’all riled over “sticking it” to Spotify over what amounts to an utterly inconsequential action?
it starts to become comical that any time I see you around you are just stirring shit
Personally I think the metadata alone is pretty valuable. Being able to use it as an agent for something like my Plex library would be great from my understanding.
“Most music is terrible” so I’m not particularly drawn to having this vast archive. I want to listen to the things I really like.
It’s also not lossless, so from an archive standpoint that seems to diminish its value.
That said, I do think the insights they post on their blog about statistics and distribution are interesting. And just because that music is currently available via paid services doesn’t mean it will always be as accessible in one place. There would be a lot of manual collection and labeling you’d have to do to get something like this otherwise. And you wouldn’t have nearly as much confidence about how comprehensive such a database was if you did it yourself.
