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4 points·fratlas··4 comments

Hey, is there anywhere I can download (preferably torrent) a huge (100's of GBs) of all known music? Downloading it's metadata is also preferable but not necessary. I'm assuming this is legal as long as my intentions are educational (they are).

I think you might be interested in this:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/03/million-song-dataset...

Ah, this will do nicely :)

Archive.org is the legal way to download tons of music but you'd need to spider it with a script as far as I know its not all one torrent.

Not a torrent, but this has a nice API : http://pleer.com/

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