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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)
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[โ€“] MattW03@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

99% of the "original" Spotify's contents are crap or AI bloat. The rest was already on torrent before.

[โ€“] turmacar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

They break this down on their page, but while that's certainly true-ish for the last year or two the bulk of the collection is from before that.