We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
160kbps ogg files is it really worth backing up
Why wouldn’t it be?
Archives should be lossless unless there’s literally no other source available.
Archiving low quality sources like this just degrades the overall integrity of the whole
How many millions would they need to spend on downloading the lossless equivalent of 300 TB of ogg files lol.