What.cd most certainly wasn't the best. They were really stuck up and got what they deserved. I was amazed at the process just to get access to what they didn't even own. Waffles and oink were so much better.
> I was amazed at the process just to get access to what they didn't even own.
it was that process that helped to curate one of the highest quality audio libraries to have ever been.
it's not all that important for most folks to listen to and compare 20 different releases of Bowie's 'Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars', but to those of us that enjoy music cataloguing as a hobby , the loss of what.cd was pretty terrible.
By what metric where Waffles and oink better? What.cd was run incredibly professionally, as you can see by the fact that it was active for almost 9 years and nothing happened to any of the people involved.
Then their criticism doesn't make much sense as both Waffles and Oink had an invite system. At least What.cd was more approachable as there was an interview system which made it possible for everyone to join as long as they learned some basics about audio formats / transcoding / site rules and had an hour to spend on an interview.
