Spotify users were left alarmed this week after online claims suggested the streaming giant had been hacked, with tens of millions of songs allegedly exposed. The headlines painted a dramatic picture ...

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...

The scrape allegedly accessed 86 million audio files. Spotify says it has "identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping." By Mitchell Peters Update (Dec. 22, ...

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify. The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs. The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being ...

“Stranger Things” star Joe Keery overtook Taylor Swift’s No. 1 spot on the Spotify charts over the weekend. Keery, who releases music under the alias DJO, got a boost on the Spotify rankings thanks to ...

Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it, but that won’t un-leak the music. Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it ...

ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT” to eligible consumers in select ...

Platform with 700m users says it is investigating after Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped tracks and metadata An activist group has claimed to have scraped millions of tracks from Spotify and is ...

Docker makes self-hosting Lidify easy: run the container, point to /music, and open localhost:3030. Lidify feels like Spotify ...

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