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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

What a great read. I was going to try the what.cd interview one day but never got there. Now I wish I had just to experience what it must have been.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Oink and what.CD were special. What.CD went down when I wasn't paying attention and my music collecting has never been the same since

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Have you looked at soulseek/slskd (docker soulseek client intended to be used with the *arr stack)?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Soulseek is great and I always recommend trying it, but it still can't compete with what.CD. We really lost the library of alexandria there. Not just because of the content, but also the community that formed around it.

    Now we have Orpheus and Redacted, which are still pretty good music trackers. But to this day they still haven't reached what what.CD was.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    We really lost the library of alexandria there. Not just because of the content, but also the community that formed around it.

    Hasn't Discogs replaced the database (and community) part, or I'm missing something?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I have those bookmarked to dig in to further, but my understanding is Soulseek is more of a modern day Napster/Kazaa/Morpheus/Limewire. As the other poster mentions, the community around What.CD was a huge part of what made it special.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I went from Oinks to Waffles.fm and it lasted a while. We had a lot of What.cd peeps there too if I recall correctly.

    Another one I miss is turntable.fm, was great to work with that in the background, and I definitely discovered new stuff from the human curators that were DJing there.

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