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Out of curiosity, what is the size on disk of the music collection? (485k songs)

• tomaspollak 2y ago
  Around 25 GB in total. Originally managed using a Git repository until it became unmanageable... I just checked the song count, by the way, and it's actually 503305, contained in 441902 files (some files can hold multiple tracks).
• fourfour3 2y ago
  Do you have any plans to let people download the music collection in bulk? eg a direct download or via archive.org? You mention in your FAQ that preservation is a big goal of this for you, and this is a very impressive collection that I'd hate to see disappear like some of the original sites!
  • tomaspollak 2y ago
    Good question. I was thinking of eventually putting the whole archive in a decentralized system like IPFS, but I guess archive.org is also fine. However I want to wait a bit before doing so, because some of the archive sources haven't responded to the permission request I sent. And I don't want people to download their collections in bulk if they wouldn't want to.
    • squigz 2y ago
      I would definitely be interested in this as well