now i just need a 300TB hard drive…
the best time to buy anything tech was 12 months ago. the second best time is right now, before prices get even worse, which they 100% will
Actually, the best time was around 4 months ago. I paid around $100 for my 2x16GB 6000 M/T CL30 DDR5 kit. The same kit right know costs over $500.
Let’s go for a 300TB USB key on AliExpress
Don’t be too excited, guys:
Relatively popular songs are stored in their original 160kbit/s OGG Vorbis quality, while the rest use 75kbit/s to save hundreds of terabytes of storage.
75 kbit/s can sound pretty bad depending on the songs. If you listen to it on your phone speaker you probably won’t notice, but this isn’t for quality listening experience. Depends what they mean with popular though, maybe all “good” songs are stored in the higher bitrate.
I’ve literally never been unable to find ogg, flac or mp3s for any album on Soulseek. Why is scraping Spotify even necessary?
Oh no! The free music is not top tier quality for my ears!
Getoutahere
What I’ve read is it’s about: Preservation.
This aint just about piracy because free media.
Nice.
Would have been happy to pay but they just had to be a$$#oles
Very cool, though the quality leaves a bit to be desired.
For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.
I listen exclusively to 96kbps opus and it sounds perfect. Not sure if 75kbps would be noticeable.
why must every good site draw attention to themselves like this? Make alternative site for music if you must make such a spectacle out of it, so when the hammer falls it doesnt take out the books too. Or at least have some kind of plan on how to survive it, which i really hope they do.
Call me when it’s actually released. “We’ll release the music in the future” is worth exactly as much content as “we’ll release a Batgirl movie”.
You don’t need them to release anything. Just download soulseek and search for anything you want.
“Well release a batgirl movie” sounds like a really ominous statement to make tbh
Well, it should have been, once.
If instead of a giant omnibus torrent they put a folder structure on IPFS, it would be essentially a fully available streaming Spotify clone with the ability for people to “pin” tracks or albums or artists to have them stay locally on their device…
Just saying…
LET’S FUCKING GO
now i just need a 300TB hard drive…
