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Activist online archive scrapes virtually all of Spotify

Gail P Sherman
Dec 23, 2025
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Anna’s Archive has scraped almost 300TB of data from Spotify. In a blog post, the site claimed to have downloaded metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million music files. All of the metadata is currently available to torrent, with the music tracks to be available later.

Anna’s Archive is a non-profit shadow library. Its stated goal is “backing up all …

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