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> In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starve
by jorvi 2y ago
> In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.
Yeah, nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago>> some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC > nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered. The loss of WhatCD's torrent database didn't wipe out anyone's library.
- JetSpiegel 2y agoThe value of a library is that it's all in one place. Burning the Library of Alexandria also didn't burn the other copies, and yet many books were lost.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoThat's a reasonable observation.
- eisa01 2y agoBut the successors still have stuff iTunes don't have, and there's even new uploads of old releases that What didn't have ;)
- thowawatp302 2y agoBy virtue of being a private torrent tracker, WhatCD never had that full catalog, itself. The members did and what you consider to be an inability to recover is only because the torrents were never remade. The same thing would happen if the tracker was up and there were no seeds.