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How did you get access to 120,000,000 songs from iTunes? Not just the listing, but the actual audio.
by snow_mac 4y ago
How did you get access to 120,000,000 songs from iTunes? Not just the listing, but the actual audio.
- charcircuit 4y agoThe preview audio is free. It may just be 120,000,000 previews.
- yreg 4y agoEven so, how do you get the 120M previews?
- amelius 4y ago... without getting banned?
- from 4y agoApple has a public API with some rate limiting that returns a link to the preview audio file, see: https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=1023678453 https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=1023678453 (https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/06/19/working-with-itunes-affiliate-resources/amp/ https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/06/19/working-with-itunes-...) So probably all that is required is a couple threads downloading and a proxy service with a large pool of IP addresses randomly rotating on every request. Maybe OP also found an undocumented API endpoint somewhere that was not rate limited.
- Izkata 4y agoTotally explains this part of the current top comment here: > but much more often it feels like a 20 second section was used to define the original song and it misses the underlying concept
- qiller 4y agoYeah, like the linked The Medallion Calls example catches similarities to the slow starting section of the track and totally misses the main part
- fallingmeat 4y agoim also curious