There were two factors that made What special. The first factor was its unparalleled library of music (some of which was only available on What). This is lost f

There were two factors that made What special. The first factor was its unparalleled library of music (some of which was only available on What). This is lost forever, though the data is still distributed worldwide, and a lot of it will probably be reuploaded once a replacement tracker becomes popular. The second factor was the log checker, which verified that rips were actually lossless, direct CD rips using the log file produced by Exact Audio Copy or X Lossless Decoder. The degree to which a rip's log conformed to he log checker was displayed next to the download link. This allowed the users to be confident that a rip wasn't just a transcoded lossy version that someone found on the internet. I hope somebody has the script saved so it can be used by whatever replaces What.