Madonna - Rebel Heart [2015] [Album] - [MP3 / V2 (VBR) / WEB / Liechtenstein Pre-Emphasized Jewelbox Edition]
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 March 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Reported
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 March 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
I know Workshop is one of the better known underground house labels, but come onnn lag∞n,.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 6 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Why steal from artists for free when you can pay Spotify to do it for you?
― calstars, Friday, 6 March 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
good website 4 obscure music
LOL
E-mailed! Thanks dude. :-D
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
ya man
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
how do i shoot a web
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
if someone has an invite to one of the elite nzb sites i would be eternally grateful
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
surprise freeleech tokens have been granted to what.cd members (lets you download stuff without hurting your ratio)
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 30 March 2015 06:47 (nine years ago) link
albums by bands
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Saturday, 3 October 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
free to download
"Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
2016
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Metallica!!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
holy shit
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
anyone have oink invites?
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
apparently waffles is on a similar path
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
is it supposed to be legal pressure? or just no one wants to maintain them anymore
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
french authorities seized 12 servers
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
for a site to close up shop overnight like that something's gotta be up
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
:'-(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday W.CD warned users that the tracker would be down for an undefined amount of time so don't bother seeding for a while, can't recall the exact wording but it definitely seemed more suspicious than just regular maintenance.
Waffles has been down for who knows how many weeks now.
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
Waffles was a piece of shit tbh. What.cd was also a piece of shit, with it's hierarchy, rewards, fascist leaning rules. But boy was what.cd sweet all the same.
Back to slsk I guess...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
first they came for what, and i said nothing, because my ratio on what was honestly pretty shit
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
good riddance
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder182/400x400/37630182.jpg
― qop (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Heh, I managed a dece 0.70 ratio iirc.
End of an era though, this. Been riding the torrent train since Oink and What. There is no replacement for the latter. This will hurt both the downloaders and the musicians.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
how is it hurting musicians? are 'what' users going to stop previewing music on the web because it doesn't come with a log file?
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
man that sounds aggro but I honestly am interested in your response, lbi. it's prob been discussed to death on these boards I guess
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
It wasn't just a d/l site anymore. It was a community that had discovery of (new) music as it's core business. Ive bought loads of music after having learned of it through what. Highly unlikely I am alone in that.
Xp dont mind yr aggro tone, I *get* it: downloading is theft etc. And yet.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah they definitely had a good community going. though it's weird to say this about something so blatantly illegal I feel a bit bad, some people definitely put a ton of time into this without any compensation
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
honestly i've been spending more time on bandcamp lately than i ever did on what. not just because the site is better for the artists, i just have been finding it to be a better site for new music.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
I'm behind on bandcamp/soundcloud, first to admin it, perhaps it's just as good
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Ha That's interesting bcz I recall the community being totally not in line with my taste (to put it very diplomatically) but it's been years
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Bandcamp is great. I think I've spent $500 on there this year alone. I've heard the artists get 90% of that which is cool with me. I love how unlike iTunes or Amazon you don't need to download anything to use it, I can click "buy" and start downloading it within about 15 seconds
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
what was a big community but they def had too much of a "scene" mentality for my tastes.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's really cool just how many notable artists use bandcamp nowadays, in addition to random talented nobodies from nowheresville
soundcloud obv the best for discovering new techno etc.. plus hardwax and other store websites
for older reccs, I mainly surf around discogs (check out cool users' wantlists/collections/lists, explore most wanted items)
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
by noteable i really mean "known"... like severed heads putting a bunch of stuff up there
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
however you feel about downloading digital copies or music for free, what had become an archive, it was a thing of beauty. the community produced so many collages that organized obscure collections of music, clusters of labels from a specific place and time, records that appeared on legendary radio shows, records associated with a specific club or scene... it was a massive library. also, it wasn't really one community, it was broad collection of communities organized by the process enforced by the site. you could not download a single thing from it and it'd still be a great resource.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
the obsessive care and love that the users put into it was daunting and kind of weird, but the result was pretty amazing
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
how is it hurting musicians? are 'what' users going to stop previewing music on the web because it doesn't come with a log file?― a but (brimstead), Thursday, November 17, 2016 5:33 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkIt wasn't just a d/l site anymore. It was a community that had discovery of (new) music as it's core business. Ive bought loads of music after having learned of it through what. Highly unlikely I am alone in that. Xp dont mind yr aggro tone, I *get* it: downloading is theft etc. And yet.
It wasn't just a d/l site anymore. It was a community that had discovery of (new) music as it's core business. Ive bought loads of music after having learned of it through what. Highly unlikely I am alone in that. Xp dont mind yr aggro tone, I *get* it: downloading is theft etc. And yet.
Their collection of music software torrents was unparalleled imo, esp. considering how meticulous the community was w/r/t uploading standards.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
I'm still cranky I couldn't transfer my 3.something Oink ratio to What. I RIPPED SO MUCH DAMN SHIT
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
my ratio was over 5
: /
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 November 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Most recent artist I discovered through What was Jenny Hval. Bought her latest. Fuck this. I'm also extremely picky with my audio sources and quality, and it's going to be much, much harder to find obscure, non-brickwalled releases of things I already own or rereleases that are now out of print. Fuck.
― octobeard, Friday, 18 November 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link
got banned from this shithole cuz i couldn't figure out how to get uploads
― flopson, Friday, 18 November 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
jk it sounds cool
― flopson, Friday, 18 November 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
Damn, got my invite from a kind soul on here, just the ultimate library of music. Look forward to seeing the replacement though.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 18 November 2016 09:07 (seven years ago) link
aw RIP, such a library and all the user-supplied bios and linking and collages etc, disappeared
also I'm sure I don't know what any of this stuff is (ahem) but if I did and if I had been saving all my birthday tokens (whatever they would be) for a major research'n'binge session this weekend, well... damn
apparently w*****s is on a similar path
huh I thought they already disappeared 6 months ago, guess they just moved and only told the cool kids. annoying as a permanent never-cool-kid but s'pose this thread's news underlines why it has to be that way
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 18 November 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
I just don't see the point of doing all that work and then only making the results available to the "cool kids". I kind of feel the same way about academic journals.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 18 November 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
invites were given out by request in certain places, forums, chats, etc., but that's why it's dead now
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 18 November 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if S***S**K will pick up a bit more now.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 18 November 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/VpZOSkr.jpg
― just another (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 November 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
a tribute to human culture free from concern over profit or accalaim
[Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering.]
― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 19 November 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
A eulogy for What.cd, the greatest music collection in the history of the world—until it vanished yesterday
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
I was then subjected to a 20-minute grilling, in which the moderator lodged obscure audio encoding questions at me: What is the difference between constant bitrate and variable bitrate mp3s? Look at these two spectrograms—which of them belongs to an mp3 that was encoded poorly? How can you tell? If you encode a lossless file at 320 kilobytes per second, and then again at 256 kilobytes per second, is this the same as encoding at 256 directly? And more.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha fuck these dicks
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
lol the mods were convinced my friend was some notorious banned user named JAGGERMONSTER and they berated him over chat saying stuff like "we know youre JAGGERMONSTER, JAGERMONSTER" and banned him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
BAN L0U1S JAGGERMONSTER
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
I never had to go through some sodding 'exam' like NV pointed out. What.cd definitely was like the Stanford Prison Experiment, in that users who bought their way into the crew or got admin rights or whatever became these nasty fascist overlords. The banality of evil etc. That was the truly terrible side of it.
On the other hand: the staggering collection, man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
a friend of mine got banned because they said he was manipulating his ratio ...despite the fact that this guy was so computer illiterate that he needed my help to move files onto an external harddrive
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
dude had a huge collection of rare punk cds that he ripped and uploaded as well, so it wasn't like he was just a random freeloader
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
whole thing sounds like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tbh
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
later my friend who was accused of being JAGGERMONSTER got another account but they somehow caught him and they were gonna ban him for having two accounts and also being JAGGERMONSTER but he told them he had a ton of rare rap tapes he was gonna rip and they let him stay
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
maybe a bit of Reservoir Dogs in there
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
lol this confirms so much of what I suspected about this trash
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 19 November 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
the level of fascism there was extremely high
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
thread of What is fascism
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
if you're okay with the immorality of stealing music it seems churlish to complain about the thieves' club rules
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
au contraire this would be much less funny if the thieves were chill and friendly
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
smh mookie clearly never heard of chill amongst thieves
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i was banned prelaunch because i wrote about the oink crew acting like babies. men gotta men
― maura, Saturday, 19 November 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
lol qed
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
oink crew indeed
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
lmfao
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Sure didn't expect What would be so divisive on ILM of all places.
The only thing that bothered me were the extreme ratio requirements. I mean, sure it incentivises retention but it's not much use when most people can't download anything until the sitewide freeleches or token giveaways.
octobeard and spacecadet otm
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 20 November 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
The ratio requirements were the least extreme thing about these sites
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Sunday, 20 November 2016 09:36 (seven years ago) link
Always seemed pretty easy going to me considering the standards they were looking for.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 20 November 2016 11:07 (seven years ago) link