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Someone could explain me what did i miss? I started on Napster, went on with the usuals torrent portals and now a sad streaming user... What was different about

Someone could explain me what did i miss? I started on Napster, went on with the usuals torrent portals and now a sad streaming user... What was different about this website?

atomicnumber3 4y ago
Heavily, even snootily curated rip files and encodings. Uncompromising quality. And the community - selective, passionate (again even snooty/elitist) and talkative. I didn't know I liked atmospheric black metal until they showed me what it's about.
- boomskats 4y ago
  > I didn't know I liked atmospheric black metal until they showed me what it's about. This comment just sums it up for me. You said it perfectly.
that_guy_iain 4y ago
It has everything in ever format you could want. Wanted small mp3 to fit lots on your small iPod mini - no problem. Wanted the highest quality mp3 possible, got that too. Want lossless? Got that too. Nearly every bit of music added had multiple formats. It wasn’t just the big ones. A request section that was super useful - due to how hard it was to seed on music torrent sites. (For waffles and what I was the only person two people invited that didn’t get banned for having a poor ratio.) Lots of new music by new bands were uploaded by the bands so you got to find truly new music. If you were an audiophile this was a must have site. Even tho people went on and on about “e**” (that was basically the name)
- kaszanka 4y ago
  What's "e*"?
  - that_guy_iain 4y ago
    It was a very hard to get into music torrent site. They had a rule you could only use the first letter in public. They didn’t give out invites too often so it became really hard to get. Which is why I think those who did have it raved about it so music. It focused only on lossless formats of music.
Mouthfeel 4y ago
It was a crate-diggers haven. And as others noted, lossless, organized, with high curatorial standards.

Someone could explain me what did i miss? I started on Napster, went on with the usuals torrent portals and now a sad streaming user... What was different about this website?

atomicnumber3 4y ago

Heavily, even snootily curated rip files and encodings. Uncompromising quality. And the community - selective, passionate (again even snooty/elitist) and talkative. I didn't know I liked atmospheric black metal until they showed me what it's about.

boomskats 4y ago
> I didn't know I liked atmospheric black metal until they showed me what it's about. This comment just sums it up for me. You said it perfectly.

that_guy_iain 4y ago

It has everything in ever format you could want. Wanted small mp3 to fit lots on your small iPod mini - no problem. Wanted the highest quality mp3 possible, got that too. Want lossless? Got that too. Nearly every bit of music added had multiple formats. It wasn’t just the big ones. A request section that was super useful - due to how hard it was to seed on music torrent sites. (For waffles and what I was the only person two people invited that didn’t get banned for having a poor ratio.) Lots of new music by new bands were uploaded by the bands so you got to find truly new music. If you were an audiophile this was a must have site. Even tho people went on and on about “e**” (that was basically the name)

kaszanka 4y ago
What's "e*"?
- that_guy_iain 4y ago
  It was a very hard to get into music torrent site. They had a rule you could only use the first letter in public. They didn’t give out invites too often so it became really hard to get. Which is why I think those who did have it raved about it so music. It focused only on lossless formats of music.

Mouthfeel 4y ago

It was a crate-diggers haven. And as others noted, lossless, organized, with high curatorial standards.