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I spent many nights browsing what.cd and building up my collection in the early days. Somewhat off-topic , but I just posted this question on HN which is sort
by vonseel 4y ago
I spent many nights browsing what.cd and building up my collection in the early days.
Somewhat off-topic , but I just posted this question on HN which is sort of related - how did early streaming sites build up their collections?
Maybe the founders of Spotify were actually big uploaders on what.cd and already had many TB of albums?? (Semi-joking, I know this is unlikely, but I’m desperately curious for the answers to this mystery.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555150
Please comment if you have any thoughts as otherwise my curiosity is getting buried in the depths of hackernews!
- ninjin 4y agoDuring their closed alpha (or was it beta?), Spotify’s library consisted of some sort of superset of the (illegal) music collections of their staff. If I recall correctly, you would even get hits by searching for scene release groups in the search bar. Once this ended and they went legal, I left Spotify and never looked back as about half of my music library was gone overnight. It taught me a valuable lesson early on in life about subscription services and “not owning” your digital files.
- vonseel 4y agoThat’s interesting, I don’t think I’d ever heard about that before! Do you find there are lots of things you can’t find on Apple Music or Spotify nowadays? I guess I’m just not the type to really listen to a bunch of rare recordings, but maybe I would if I had access to them.
- ninjin 4y ago> Do you find there are lots of things you can’t find on Apple Music or Spotify nowadays? No clue really, I am more “forceful” these days in terms of requiring software to be open if it is to set foot on my devices. Bandcamp is great and it is where I get the majority of my music these days.