> Most people I know didn't even use the site for it's original purpose but for the recommendations, the discussions about music & concerts and chatting about a

> Most people I know didn't even use the site for it's original purpose but for the recommendations, the discussions about music & concerts and chatting about a lot of other topics on IRC. Even with subscriptions to various "legit" music services there'll be no replacement for that in the near future. It seems to me that a good replacement for What.CD is actually two different replacements. One being a music community site that just cares about the meta data such as new bands, albums, reviews, forums, etc. The other being an API based project that would allow the sharing that What.CD allowed, the API based project would allow for browser extensions to extend the meta data site. Legal issues surrounding the sharing logic shouldn't in theory effect the meta data one.