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Loss of what.cd was somewhat like burning of alexandria library. So much lost, never to be recovered...
by arpa 7y ago
Loss of what.cd was somewhat like burning of alexandria library. So much lost, never to be recovered...
- mongol 7y agoWhat could you find there?
- nitrogen 7y agoIt was approaching all music in all formats, ever.
- unixhero 7y agoFormats yes, but more importantly for music fans and audiophiles, all mediums!
- r3bl 7y agoIt was an invite-only torrent tracker. What set it apart was its size. Any song you could think of, in any format you could think of. You could find lossless music that there's 0 chance that you could find anywhere else (legally or not).
- unixhero 7y agoArtists launched their own albums there first and became famous, the so called "Vanity house". An example of an artist that got big is "The Flashbulb".
- arpa 7y agoWhat sibling comments said, also, great community, great recommendations, relationship graphs between artists/styles, very neat and tidy metadata (accurate tags, releases with serial numbers, etc).