450,000 lost MySpace songs have been uploaded to an online archive

Last month, MySpace lost 50 million songs from 14 million artists between 2003-2015 after migrating to a new server.

Jason Scott, the owner of textfiles.com, has announced that an online archive managed to gather over 450,000 of the tracks "before they were all "deleted" by mistake."

The huge 1.3TB collection of tracks, titled The MySpace Music Dragon Hoard, is so large that they have included a custom search feature to make it easier to locate tracks.

According to Scott, the tracks were saved by "an anonymous academic group who were studying music networks."

This set of 450,000 songs was done by an anonymous academic group who were studying music networks and grabbed 1.3 terabytes of mp3s to study from MySpace in roughly 2008-2010 to do so. And someone asked me "hey, do you want these, since they were lost?" Yes, yes I did. pic.twitter.com/ZqQC8bYfz1

— Jason Scott (@textfiles) April 4, 2019

People on Twitter have been praising Scott after managing to find their old tunes on the huge compilation. One wrote, "Thank you for doing this. I'm finding stuff of mine that I thought was gone forever", while another called Scott a "saint" for providing the information.