Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library

I wish Spotify welcomed or collaborated with these archival initiatives. Anna's Archive does not compete with Spotify in any way.

Convenience won.

How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?

Anti scraping measures are making it more difficult to use the web. I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.

I'm hoping that this metadata leak can revive projects like https://everynoise.com

Spotify (and netflix etc..) have become very hostile to exposing their catalogue over API, so i'm glad they've gotten open sourced :)

wasn't spotify started out as a collection of pirated songs? somethings go in full circle I guess.

Probably a net positive for future open source music generation LLM models

long live anna's archive.

a true gift to humanity.

Oooh, scary. "Investigations!"

This is a archivalist institution that actively ignores "copyright" to further the art and science of our shared media legacy.

And frankly, public libraries would absolutely be deemed illegal if they were made 10 years ago. (And it was only because rich people like Rockefeller wanted to wash their actual history with a social-happy persona.)

Previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339