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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
Have you looked at soulseek/slskd (docker soulseek client intended to be used with the *arr stack)?
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.
Yeah, the new ones aren't really even close to what.cd, but they are still the best we have.
Hasn't Discogs replaced the database (and community) part, or I'm missing something?
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.
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.
Oh damn! I forgot about waffles.fm. also a great one.