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As another mentioned, the Alexandria analogy is best applied to what.cd being shut down last year. Here's an article describing it. https://qz.com/840661/what-
by cr1895 9y ago
As another mentioned, the Alexandria analogy is best applied to what.cd being shut down last year. Here's an article describing it.
https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-greatest-music-collection-in-the-world/ https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-great...
I wasn't ever a member, but it's clear to me that an immense body of knowledge was lost when it was shut down. Much more so than SoundCloud shutting down, unfortunate as that may be.
edit: anyone who was familiar, how did the categorization and documentation of what.cd compare to Discogs now? I find Discogs invaluable and immensely useful, but it certainly doesn't have the rigorous QC that what.cd had. Anyone can edit entries, and it's not infrequently that I encounter something incorrect.
- kough 9y agoThe private torrent sites (What, and others that I won't name here) all tend to refer to Discogs as the authoritative source of catalog information. The difference is that while Discogs knows about metadata, it doesn't have any music. I think I was depressed for a week when What shut down.
- draw_down 9y agoBut that involved people (say it with me now) steeeealing!
- macawfish 9y agoI don't know, Soundcloud actually does have an extraordinary amount of independent content ("folk music") that what.cd wouldn't have ever been able to facilitate. I'd argue that they are both quite prolific, just different.