>These kind of sites also had fans meticulously fill in all the metadata about the history and context of a song, film or whatever. Absolutely, the metadata on

>These kind of sites also had fans meticulously fill in all the metadata about the history and context of a song, film or whatever. Absolutely, the metadata on What was beyond wikipedia level all completely user managed meticulously. Slightly different versions of releases all catalogued and rips verified to a high standard. This is before we even get into the fact it was all connected so similar artists were navigate-able you could actually start from a band you enjoy and dig into other similar music right from the same site. The cataloging goes way beyond anything Apple offered at the time and anything Apple, Spotify, Tidal offer today.