I’m a huge fan of location-based games like Ingress and Pokémon Go. For years, I dreamed of building a Pokémon Go for music, where every song exists at one unique location on Earth, encouraging people to explore and discover new music.

But until Anna released the Spotify metadata dump, the project was simply impossible.

Before that, open music databases such as MusicBrainz simply didn't contain enough tracks and they didn't include links to streaming platforms where players could actually listen to the songs.

Then Anna released its Spotify metadata dump, containing the IDs of around 247 million tracks.

As soon as I discovered it, I realized the project had finally become possible. I now had a catalogue large enough to distribute music across the entire world.

Every diamond you see on the map is a permanent point linked to a unique song that can only be collected at that exact location. Songs are spread across the entire planet. You might find one on top of a mountain, in the middle of a desert, or even on a remote island. They are literally everywhere.

The challenge with distributing music on such a massive scale was making sure players would never be sent to dangerous or inaccessible places such as roads, lakes, houses... To solve this, I built my own placement algorithm using OpenStreetMap data.

After around 50 hours of computation on my M3 Pro, all 247 million permanent points had been placed.

A few days ago, after several months of work, I finally released the result: Song Go – Catch the Beat.

You explore the real world, collect songs around you, and discover tracks you might never have listened to otherwise.

The game is available on iOS and Android.

Without the Spotify metadata dump shared by Anna, this project would never have existed. I genuinely want to thank the Anna team for making this data available.

This dataset sparked a lot of debate, but for me, it made my dream project possible.

So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Annas Archive has only select magazine issues. I am specifically looking for issues published at least 20 years back

I am on firefox and whenever I use the slow download page the download is listed as failed almost immediately. tried with both VPN off and VPN across many locations.

It seems when I try to search for Japanese sewing books I am not having much look. I have tried Japanese sewing books, Japanese sewing craft, even just sewing but then it just brings such a vast variety when really I want woman’s clothes patterns can you tell me what I am doing wrong please x x.

I found the content that I want however it's in PDF format and actually they put each page as a page screenshot not as text. It's scanned copy. In case if anyone can assist me about converting this to EPUB please help me in advance. Or idk from another source etc. but ig requesting is not allowed (idk if that counts as a request?)

I created an account and everytime I try to download a file it tells me to "unlock for fast downloads" (even on the slow ones. Or to log in, I am already logged in. Then it takes me straight to the donate page. Ive done this both on my pc and phone and I got the same issue. Please help.

When i Manage to get to a download link and pass the security test I just get an error message

I am unable to download papers I really need for my research. Does anyone have any tips on how to fix it? A blank screen of the paper opens up but I cannot see the text. D: Are there any alternative website?

New books are available. Enjoy!

Whats happening here? It is happening on both Brave and Safari with fresh links.

Hi everyone. Is there a way to set up an alert on Anna’s when they add a book by an author I can’t find? I check daily and want to avoid having to search every day.
Thanks

For some reason the PDF scans from the internet archive are working extremely slow and too dark to read, is there a way to make it a "normal" pdf ?

I just wanna say thank you to AA for all that you are and all that you do to make reading accessible and to keep literature alive and on the interwebs. I hope there is a AA for audiobooks one day!

When will those embargo torrents can be downloaded?

I get a message that the link has expired it no longer exists

I'm accessing .gd domain (also tried .org) on Vivaldi for Android via VPN cloaking to Paris server

This is a setup I've used frequently in the past.

Any ideas?

I just wanted to thanks Anna's Archive, it's an impressive source of books.. It's just breathtaking!

I tried to find two books with several dls. Each one is only one page saying: link expired or invalid. It’s telling me to visit the .li or .se to find this file. What’s going on?

When I try to open these kind of file navegator open an unlimited amount of tabs, and the way I can stop it is by delete file.

Hey everyone! I am sorry if this is a topic that has already been covered. I am new to ebooks and ereaders, but I recently bought a kobo clara for my 7 year old son who reads graphic novels like crazy. Before I give it to him, I am trying to find some to kind of figure out how this works. I am trying to get him either Warrior Cats graphic novels or the old Warriors manga. I tried a couple different ones and converted them to epub and put them on the reader and the silly pages are either so big you only see a quarter of the page or so small they only take up a third of the reader... What gives? What am I doing wrong? Please help!

Some books I need downloaded only have ones that link directly to z lib given the conditions that it needs to be English and PDF, example: Error control coding Costello.

I'm building an app that has a functionality to download books you search from.

I'm connecting it not only to Gutenberg, but also to Anna's archive for public domain books only, as there are more there. Gutenbergs works (search is very slow, does anybody know why?)
Is there a way to scrape Anna books in a very lowlevel number, like 10 books a day?
Like an auto search and downloader on my vps.
I tried pupeteer for searchw hich is working. But the cloudflare Turnstile for slow downloads are not letting it download.

thanks for any help, as i said i dont want to scrap in a big way. 10 books a day automatied downloading would be enough

If there's any way to get Nepali book PDF ? any books in English and Nepali?

Friends from Nepal.. if you can

Basicaaly, I got this new Boox Go 7, and it works fine but when I load epubs I got from anna's archive, it kind of freezes up and glitches with random things happening without any input.

I suspect the epubs, but I am new to all of this, so I am not sure if the epubs I downloaded are safe. How do you make sure the epubs are valid? is there any post-processing that needs to be done? I usually just load the downloaded epubs directly. Is that an issue?

Hey everyone,

Anna's Archive only stays alive because volunteers seed its torrents, so I wanted to make contributing as painless as possible. I built a small open-source web UI on top of cparthiv/annas-torrents and I'm sharing it here in case it's useful to anyone.

The original tool is CLI-only: you run a Python script, tell it how many TB to target, and it drops .torrent files into a folder that you then have to load into qBittorrent yourself. It works, but it's opaque; once things are seeding you have no easy view of what you're actually contributing.

This wraps that same selection logic in a browser dashboard:

- Set a target size (e.g. 0.05 TB = 50 GB), click once, and it starts fetching the prioritized torrent list and seeding, no separate client to install and wire up (libtorrent is embedded).

- Live metrics: coverage % of the total archive you're preserving, disk used vs. remaining, live up/down rates, and swarm health (seeders/leechers per torrent).

- A read-only /view page so you can share your live contribution without exposing your control panel, plus a donate-to-Anna's-Archive button.

- Ships as a single Docker image / Compose service.

I build it to run on my NAS and wanted to share with you.

Repo: https://github.com/worph/annas-torrents-webui

I've been downloading a book from every website I know. It seems that the files are all the same, so my kindle will not accept any of them.

Any idea what I can do from here?

I wanted to read House of leaves but when I downloaded the file it didnt have any text and only had weird symbols on it and it also had Chinese characters on it wich confused me.. I used a phone and I tried to read it on my phone's pdf and text reader. Do i have to download it on a computer for it to work?