Hyderabad, Dec. 22 -- If you are the kind of listener who switches from Arijit Singh to Anirudh to old Ilaiyaraaja playlists in one night, this news will feel unreal. A pirate activist group claims it has scraped Spotify at massive scale and built a so called "preservation archive" that could be shared through torrents.

256 Million Spotify Songs Leaked

According to a post shared via Anna's Archive, the collection includes around 256 million rows of track metadata and about 86 million audio files, packed into roughly 300TB of data.

The group says it sorted content by popularity and plans staged releases, plus extras like playlists and more files later.

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