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The Internet Archive has recovered 500,000 of the 50,000,000 songs Myspace "accidentally" deleted during a server migration
Last month, Myspace sheepishly admitted that it had "accidentally" deleted 12 years' worth of its users' music during a server migration; now the Internet Archive has revealed that they were able to preserve two years' worth of that music, 50,000 tracks from 2008-2010, downloaded by an anonymous group of academics for research purposes.
The tracks are online in a special collection at the Archive called The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010), whose accompanying browser, Hobbit, mimics the original Myspace music player.
The Internet Archive uploaded the cache and dubbed it The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010). You can browse the music using an interface called Hobbit, which looks much like MySpaces old music player. However, it can be a bit slow loading up the music, so be patient. It is still undergoing optimizations and will eventually be open source.
Internet Archive recovers half a million 'lost' MySpace songs [Cal Jeffrey/Techspot] Read the rest
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