I wonder how many premium accounts Anna’s Archive had to use to scrape the whole thing. Surely Spotify has scrape protection and wouldn’t allow a single account to stream (download) millions of separate tracks.

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KomoD 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a feeling they didn't use premium accounts since they downloaded at 160kbit/s, which is the highest quality that free accounts can get.

Premium gets 320kbit/s (or lossless)

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grishka 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I haven't looked at the code but I would be surprised if the premium account "requirement" is anything more than an if statement that can be commented out.

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Retr0id 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are correct

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squigz 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty sure that requirement is server-side?

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grishka 16 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you mean? You can still stream any song with a free account. It's just that there will be ads. Additionally, in mobile apps, there will be ridiculous artificial limitations to make sure your experience is as miserable as it could possibly be.

My understanding is that the premium requirement is there to avoid having the repo taken down.

	▲	squigz 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My understanding, based on a related comment in this thread, was that premium accounts get higher quality; in that case, I figured any such checks would be server-side. If you were referring to a separate check in the above repo's code, my mistake.