Claims have surfaced suggesting that a huge amount of data linked to music streaming platform Spotify has been scraped and shared on internet ...

Anna's Archive, billed as the largest truly-open library in human history, now includes roughly 300TB of Spotify tracks and ...

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Spotify has around 256 million tracks, and the Anna’s Archive collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of them.

According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest ...

The shadow library targeted metadata in what it calls a preservation effort and said it's considering allowing the ...

An activist group scraped metadata from over 250 million Spotify tracks, as well as audio files for 86 million of them, which ...