JAKARTA - Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming apps with a complete song list. So complete, you may wonder how much data Spotify has.
The curiosity was answered thanks to a group called Anna's Archive. The group announced that they managed to take almost all the content from within the Spotify platform.
They claimed to have secured metadata for 256 million song tracks and 86 million songs in the form of audio files. If calculated in percentage terms, this data archive covers about 99.6 percent of the total of all user listening histories on Spotify.
This is a pretty big database. In fact, the total size for this database reaches almost 300 TB. Currently, Anna's Archive is starting to distribute its data in bulk through the torrent system.
This data collection is called the world's largest music metadata base available for public consumption. Anna's Archive will sort the song list based on popularity to facilitate the process of distributing its data.
The group's actions are an attempt to 'preserve' the history of modern music in the long term. Anna's Archive claims to be concerned about less well-known music. This music has the potential to disappear if Spotify has licensing problems or stops operating.
All the audio in this archive is taken directly from the Spotify server in the original 160kbps format for popular songs. Meanwhile, songs that are rarely played are re-encoded to a smaller size to save digital storage space.
Although claimed to be a preservation mission, this mass data acquisition is certainly not legal. Redistribution of audio files via torrents also violates copyright laws and official provisions of Spotify.
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