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Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

I'm not sure exactly how "listens" maps on to total songs, but it sounds like they got almost all of them

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Over 250 million total so about 1/3.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Oh right. So I guess that means the majority of stuff uploaded to Spotify never really gets listened to.