what invite what.cd

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

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

BAN L0U1S JAGGERMONSTER

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.

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

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

whole thing sounds like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre tbh

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

maybe a bit of Reservoir Dogs in there

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.

lol this confirms so much of what I suspected about this trash

the level of fascism there was extremely high

thread of What is fascism

if you're okay with the immorality of stealing music it seems churlish to complain about the thieves' club rules

au contraire this would be much less funny if the thieves were chill and friendly

smh mookie clearly never heard of chill amongst thieves

i was banned prelaunch because i wrote about the oink crew acting like babies. men gotta men

lol qed

oink crew indeed

lmfao

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

The ratio requirements were the least extreme thing about these sites

Always seemed pretty easy going to me considering the standards they were looking for.