Apr 05, 2019 10:45:00

About 500,000 music files of Myspace's lost data recovered by academic group

In March 2019,

MySpace , a SNS focused on music and entertainment that has been providing services since 2003, reports that ' the data for all 12 years has been lost ', and the world has lost important data The inside user gave a sad voice. Under these circumstances, the Internet Archive, which operates a web page archive browsing service, announced that 'about 500,000 of the music files lost by MySpace have been provided by an anonymous academic group.'

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010): Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

Internet Archive recovers half a million 'lost' MySpace songs-TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/79511-internet-archive-recovers-half-million-lost-myspace-songs.html

MySpace has reported that the music player will stop working from 2018, and MySpace has been working on recovery. However, in March 2019, the official reported to users that 'as a result of the server migration project, photos, videos and audio files uploaded more than three years ago are no longer accessible'.

With so many people losing valuable data and grieving, the Internet Archive, which works to save web page archives, publishes 490,000 MP3 files posted to MySpace from 2008 to 2010. did. The file was apparently collected by an anonymous academic group for research purposes, and the academic group was aware of MySpace's data loss incident and decided to provide its own data to the Internet archive.

The total number of music files lost during server migration is estimated to be 50 million, and the total of 490,000 recovered this time is less than 1% of the total lost music files. However, the amount of recovered data is still as large as 1.3TB, and

you can listen to music files using a music playback player called Hobbit on the Internet Archive.

Also, because of the huge amount of data published, the Internet Archive divides MP3 files into as many as 144

ZIP files so that they can be downloaded from the special page .

The revived music files are just a few of MySpace's lost data, but it is possible that someone else has downloaded MySpace data as well as the anonymous academic group that provided this data. As a result, it is possible that another third party may recover other lost data.