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Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged audio files to follow. Here is what's included, what's missing, and why it exists.
According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks.” It’s also “the world’s first ‘preservation archive’ for music which is fully open,” with 86 million music files, the archive boasted.
Spotify is investigating claims that a piracy-linked group has millions of music tracks and data from the platform without authorization.
Tens of thousands of Spotify users reported outages on Monday, with some saying they had lost access to their playlists.
The 'Stranger Things' playlist combines music with thrilling clues, giving fans a sneak peek at a clip from Season 5 Vol. 2.
Spotify Wrapped is evolving from celebration to strategy, giving creators deep insights into audience loyalty, global reach and what’s really working.
Spotify is dealing with a major breach after activist group Anna’s Archive claimed to have uploaded almost all of the platform’s music library online for free, including hundreds of terabytes of tracks and metadata scraped from the service.
On Android phones, you can create new Spotify home screen shortcuts to access the exact music you want and bypass Spotify's home page and algorithm.
Drake coined a new nickname for the music streaming giant Spotify by calling it Botify. The Canadian rapper made the offhanded remark during a recent stream with BenDaDonn. Interestingly, according to Spotify Wrapped 2025,
While the shadow library says it aims to preserve humanity’s culture, its pirated content has wider implications for the future of streaming.
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