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Re:Backing Up Spotify by stefan_ on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:44PM (#46339908)
DRM aside, Spotify clearly should have logic that throttles your account based on requests (only so many minutes in a day..), making it entirely impractical to download the entirety of it unless you have millions of accounts.
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Re:Backing Up Spotify by reactordev on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:55PM (#46340000)
>unless you have millions of accounts.

Challenge accepted…

This is probably how they did it, over time, was use a few thousand accounts and queued up all the things, and download everything over the course of a year.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by Retr0id on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:16PM (#46340145)
Notably 160kbit is the free-tier bitrate, so they presumably used unpaid accounts.
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