The lost music that once existed on MySpace, is now available from the Internet Archive which hopefully reaches a size of 1,3 Terabytes.
MySpace, once the largest and most popular social networking site on the Internet, was used by many users in its early days Internet for hosting music.
MySpace users could upload music to the service. Things on the internet have changed and MySpace has been replaced by Facebook and other social networking services.
The music that users uploaded to MySpace was still available on the site until recently, but as the company recently changed servers, lost access to all songs, photos and videos that had been uploaded to the site before 2015.
MySpace apparently had no backups, so the Internet Archive came into play. The Internet Archive got their hands on a portion of MySpace's music archive and uploaded it to servers of. The file is about 1,3 Terabytes in size and is a massive collection of 490.000 mp3 songs that MySpace users uploaded to the networking service between 2008 and 2010.
Interested users can browse the entire archive through Archive.org. MySpace Dragon Hoard can also be downloaded either directly or as a torrent file.
However tour στα 144 zip archives, does not display information about the artist or song name. When browsing you only see long lists of filenames. There is a metadata file that provides information, but linking it to the actual files is quite difficult to access.
A tool called Hobbit has been created and works as a music player and as a search tool to find songs that interest you. You can use it to search for a file or to find out if certain files are in the Archive.
Simply upload the Hobbit to a browser and enter a song name or artist name to get all the songs that match your search. The first search will take a long time, but subsequent searches are quick and painless.
You can play any song. Some of the songs, especially those of commercial bands and artists, are just clips and not the whole song.
The file is useful for MySpace users who missed songs they uploaded between 2008 and 2010, provided they can remember the title or artist. Everyone else can just play songs using the electronic music player or download the file.
The Internet Archive hosts a treasure that is no longer available on the Internet or elsewhere. Not only MySpace hardware, but if you look around the web, you'll find old Winamp Skins, arcade games, old computer and game magazines, as well as classic DOS and C-64 games.
