What Is the Myspace Music Dragon Hoard and How Can You Listen to It?

The Myspace Music Dragon Hoard is a recovered archive of 490,273 songs from 120,000 artists that were originally uploaded to Myspace Music. You can listen to it through Mydora, a continuous streaming player built by Kyle Drake. Mydora lets you play the archive as a stream and filter it by genre. It is a historical recovery project, not a complete or restored version of Myspace Music — the archive represents only a tiny fraction of the tens of millions of songs that were destroyed, many of which had no copies and are lost forever.

What the Dragon Hoard actually contains

The archive is based on recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, supplemented with additional metadata — most notably locations and genres — from a separate scan of Myspace conducted in 2009.

The genre list in Mydora is extensive and includes both broad and niche categories, for example:

• Large genres: Pop (58,329), Hip Hop (55,815), Alternative (47,577), Indie (47,185), Metal (36,043), Punk (33,108), Rap (35,438)
• Electronic and experimental: Electronica (33,994), Experimental (34,023), Electro (20,514), IDM (2,545), Breakcore (644)
• Smaller or regional categories: Dutch pop (86), French pop (98), K-POP (428), Chinese pop (479), J-POP (828)

These counts come directly from Mydora's genre index, so they also give you a sense of what you'll find before you start filtering.

Why this archive matters

Myspace was once a central place for independent and emerging musicians to host their music. When the platform's music data was lost, a huge amount of material disappeared — much of it with no other copy. The Dragon Hoard preserves a small but meaningful slice of that history.

As Mydora's own description puts it, the project "tells the story of this amazing music" and aims to give listeners both entertainment and an understanding of how valuable the collection was. In other words, this is as much a preservation effort as it is a listening tool.

How to listen with Mydora

Mydora is a continuous streaming player, so the basic flow is simple:

1. Open Mydora at mydora.restorativland.org.
2. Start playing. The player streams from the archive continuously rather than requiring you to pick a single track first.
3. Filter by genre if you want direction. Use the genre list to narrow the stream — for example, choose Emo, Shoegaze-adjacent categories like Dream Pop if listed, or larger buckets like Indie or Punk.
4. Let it run. Because it's a continuous player, you can leave it on and hear a broad cross-section of the archive.

What to expect

• You won't get a full Myspace library. Only a fraction of the original music survived, so many artists and songs you remember may not be present.
• Metadata is uneven. Genres and locations come from a separate 2009 scan, so tags may not always match what you'd expect for a given track.
• It's a stream, not an on-demand catalog. The experience is closer to a themed radio station than a search-and-play service.

Background and source

Mydora was developed by Kyle Drake, and the source code is available publicly. More context about the project is linked from the site itself. If you want to understand where the data came from or how the player works, those links are the place to start.

The short version

If you want to hear a piece of lost internet music history, Mydora is the way in: open the site, hit play, and optionally filter by genre. Just go in knowing that the Dragon Hoard is a partial recovery — 490,273 songs out of tens of millions — and that its value lies in what it preserves, not in completeness.