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  • To be fair, the 10k is just a sample. The true amount is 86 million, about a quarter of all Spotify songs.

    Put another way, for any random song a person listens to, there is a 99.6% likelihood that it is part of the archive. We expect this number to be higher if you filter to only human-created songs. Do remember though that the error bar on listens for popularity 0 is large.

    For popularity=0, we ordered tracks by a secondary importance metric based on artist followers and album popularity, and fetched in descending order.

    We have stopped here due to the long tail end with diminishing returns (700TB+ additional storage for minor benefit), as well as the bad quality of songs with popularity=0 (many AI generated, hard to filter).

    Also it sounds like they had difficulty scraping some of the less popular songs and got them from somewhere else.





  • I can’t tell if I can’t articulate what I mean well enough or if you’re just reading it in bad faith so I’ll reiterate for the last time.

    I have not made a general statement about caring for good in life. I meant that for the question of whether it should be considered okay for megacorps to ignore court orders, what they’re ignoring is irrelevant. Cheering them to do it for a good cause normalizes it for when they do it for bad, which is the majority of the time.

    And it is especially off putting how comments like this are much more common when it’s the courts of a non-western country that produced the bad ruling, as if they are less sovereign than an American company.