So, there was a “spotify hack” recently, from Anna’s Archive, as we all know. My question is:
- Has the songs from that hack been made available? Can one easily get these songs? Say, I want song X from artist Y. Can I search and download?
It’s interesting how music streaming has become so dominant in the public consciousness now that the first thought of new pirates is “how can I download from a streaming service?” rather than just downloading music through the same P2P mechanisms that have existed for decades. It’s like music just doesn’t exist outside of streaming for younger generations.
why don’t you just use something like Nicotine+/soul seek? you’re gonna get better audio quality going that route as opposed to downloading some spotify track.
Ya, I plan to do it that way. But spotify quality is enough for me, and if one could get songs easily by just searching/downloading from that hack, it would make my life much easier. I suppose the spotify hack also has more songs than soulseek.
I’ve actually had the opposite success rate going with soulseek. I’ve been able to find tracks or artists that simply aren’t on spotify. For eacmple a lot of Japanese bands that I follow simply don’t release full albums on the regular. usually just singles and EPs here and there. I rarely find them on spotify but on soulseek they’re on there within the day of them releasing the song. some with other obscure stuff. The soulseek user base is primarily made up of audiophiles so you’re going to find a lot more and a lot better quality stuff.
There’s a lot of Japanese stuff on nyaa. They even have a lossless audio section. Lossy is usually 128k or 320k mp3. I do lossy myself, but I encode to m4a low-complexity 192k (the highest option it has). So I grab lossless and encode to my settings, then use mp3tag for perfect metadata control (free for you Windows guys; $30 on Mac). Then it’s a unique file. Can still be sonically identified, but so can the tracks you legit ripped from CD, so that doesn’t matter.
Also collect Japanese music, mostly j-rock.
Same, i have lossy compression; but I favour opus.
The quality that they archived is not the same as what you’re used to listening to on Spotify, just fyi… 96kbps is going to sound like straight dirty water trash
96kbps is quite good sounding compression. You may hear a difference with the original, but in most cases you’ll have to focus very hard to hear it. As far as I know what they archived was not MP3 compressed but rather opus or ogg.
The rip by annas archive is 170kbps ogg for most of the songs (most meaning listening probability, not quantifying numbers.).
Furthermore 96kbps is more than enough for casual listeners. You may hear a difference but most people wont care tbh.Unless it’s opus.
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I mean, just go to Anna’s Archive and check. It’s not really hard.
They haven’t been released yet. I also expect it to make the news when they are actually released.
Sorry for asking a question?
If they WERE in Anna’s Archive, the answer would be “yes”. That is, one can get the songs, and one can do it by going to Anna’s Archive. However, the fact that the songs are NOT in Anna’s Archive, does not prove that the songs from that hack cannot be obtained, which was my question. They could be elsewhere. In some specific site made for that hack. Or some torrent, or something like that. Someplace I don’t know about.
Thank you for replying, regardless.
They are the one’s who grabbed it and posted about it on their blog, so anna’s archive (and the blog) would be the best resource to check is their point. AFAIK, it hasn’t been put anywhere yet.
I thought Anna’s had their domain revoked. I’ve not been able to find it since.
Check their Wikipedia - only the .org was revoked. There are others
I was on .li an hour ago
They were going to make it available in parts, but I’m skeptical that they’ll even do that… They removed the metadata torrents that were available, and I haven’t seen any other updates
