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		reactordev 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backing up Spotify >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.

Retr0id 39 days ago [–]

Notably 160kbit is the free-tier bitrate, so they presumably used unpaid accounts.

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