What use is the metadata? Or is that stuff like the album covers etc?
I’m also a bit concerned about this:
Second, there’s an obsession with audiophile-grade quality (lossless FLAC, etc.) that inflates file sizes, making it impossible to maintain a complete archive of all music ever produced.
Does that mean that this spotify dump is a bunch of 64kbs mp3s, or worse some kind of lossy spotify transcode?
What use is the metadata? Or is that stuff like the album covers etc?
I’m also a bit concerned about this:
Does that mean that this spotify dump is a bunch of 64kbs mp3s, or worse some kind of lossy spotify transcode?
Spotify uses I think 192 or 320kbps Vorbis which is quite good and still has small sizes.
Even that’s 300 TB so I kinda understand. If this is all thar survives into the long term that’s ok I suppose