hi everyone! seeing as the original torrent anon either died or got a life, I've decided to start maintaining this project myself. I've spent the last month working on a huge update and it's nearing completion so I thought it's time to let you all know about it.

currently, the update contains:
>every new release for existing artists up until 2024.05.15
>complete discographies for all new artists that debuted since the 2022.02.22 torrent release
>complete discographies for many older artists that were missing from the torrent

and the stats are as follows:
>size - 300GB
>new artists - 137
>albums - 1685
>tracks - 7402 (100% flac)
>lossy -> lossless upgrades - 154

almost everything was sourced from jps in the highest quality available, with just a few releases coming from soulseek. the only releases that have been left out are some remixes and ost songs which the original torrent anon seemed to ignore, so I decided to do the same.

the last big thing I have to do before the update is ready is double check the artist / album artist tags and make changes where necessary. since I wrote scripts to (mostly) automate tagging, downloading hq cover art and renaming directories / files to fit the torrent standards, there are some minor stylisation errors that need fixing. once that's done, it's just a matter of moving the new files into the torrent directory itself and applying some small changes to existing files. I estimate it'll be another 1-2 weeks of work depending on my free time and motivation.

hope you're looking forward to it :D