The Internet Archive has recovered 500,000+ of the 50,000,000 songs Myspace "accidentally" deleted during a server migration

Last month, Myspace sheepishly admitted that it had 'accidentally' deleted 12 years' worth of its users' music during a server migration; now the Internet Archive has revealed that they were able to preserve two years' worth of that music, 50,000 tracks from 2008-2010, downloaded by an anonymous group of academics for research purposes.

The tracks are online in a special collection at the Archive called The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010), whose accompanying browser, Hobbit, mimics the original Myspace music player.

The Internet Archive uploaded the cache and dubbed it “The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010).” You can browse the music using an interface called Hobbit, which looks much like MySpace’s old music player. However, it can be a bit slow loading up the music, so be patient. It is still undergoing optimizations and will eventually be open source.

Internet Archive recovers half a million 'lost' MySpace songs [Cal Jeffrey/Techspot]