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

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

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For the last month, Spotify listeners have been waiting for the news that their annual Spotify Wrapped music lookback has arrived. And today is the big day! Yes, Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here and now ...

A hacker group claims to have scraped Spotify’s most popular music tracks and metadata, and is calling its booty the “world’s first preservation archive for music.” ...

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A pirate activist group said it ‘backed up’ Spotify’s music catalogue, claiming it put metadata for 256 million tracks online ...

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.