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What use is the metadata? Or is that stuff like the album covers etc?
I'm also a bit concerned about this:
Does that mean that this spotify dump is a bunch of 64kbs mp3s, or worse some kind of lossy spotify transcode?
It's not MP3, it's Ogg vorbis
They're encoding the top songs with higher resolution, the next bunch ( it's still millions of songs) with about half that bitrate and not planning to save the next tranche which is like a looooot of songs but each has less than 1000 plays over the history of Spotify.
This is what I vaguely remember after reading the whole original post AND after a night drinking.
No nitpicking.
They didn't encode/reencode anything with popularity>0.
What they are providing is the same as the available source.
They did reencode songs with popularity=0.