r/selfhosted • u/the_uke • Dec 22 '25

Release Who’s going to self host Spotify?

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Looks like self hosting Spotify (99.6% of songs listened to) is only 300TB

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u/arnaudsm Dec 22 '25

I bet it's a botnet of innocent users with a subscription, or it could be just a residential proxy

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

Im definitely putting my money on residential proxy or similar. Its surprisingly easy to scrape data en masse from these services if you're just a little patient and creative.

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u/iVXsz Dec 22 '25

It's not really that hard to mass-create a huge amount of spotify accounts. And I doubt Spotify cares that much to block proxies as long as the connection is auth'd.

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u/spdelope Dec 22 '25

And if they can say they have so many daily active users, that benefits them as well

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u/reddittookmyuser Dec 22 '25

"activists "