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I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was…
I distinctly recall the what.cd "entrance test" IRC bot.
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Was so sad to see oink go. What cd did a good job but nowhere close to oink. I feel there was one more that I’m missing after oink.
waffles.fm maybe?
I remember people trying to get into FTN and others too that were known to be very exclusive - not sure if any of those are still around.
I'm still salty about the loss of OiNK and the cruft of junk that is streaming services. Finding new artists is near impossible with the profit focus of streaming services today. Spotify insists that you listen to product placement paid top one this week, no matter if you've just had a two hour session of death metal, it insists that you want to hear whatever top-star released last week. Apple is similar, but on thei…
Apple Music is hilarious for this. No matter which is your starting track, if left to their own devices the "For You" and "Music Station" features will start veering into Top-40 pop music just after a few songs. They should be renamed "Six-degrees of separation from Bad Bunny generator".
My 'for you' gives me a weird melange of stuff I love, stuff I forgot I loved, and occasionally 'wow what is this new stuff that's awesome', with the rare 'oh god I like this band but not this album' kind of thing.
It's pretty spot on, and has led to discovery of quite a few new artists I like.
I have a pretty wide taste, so it's sometimes...jarring to listen to, but it never veers into Top40.
I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was…
It goes to show how terribly we have been robbed by the current copyright system.
I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was…
I distinctly recall the what.cd "entrance test" IRC bot.
https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-cal...
Oink was used by A LOT of A-Level artists and musicians. IIRC The only one who openly spoke about this was Trent Reznor, but having the chance to speak with big name producers it was the place to go for extremely hard to find whitelabels, clean rips of completely forgotten releases from the 50-80s... Quoting LCD Soundsystem, "I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody". Oink closing had a…
One of the things that got me interested in Benn Jordan and his music was the fact that he was uploading his own albums onto What.CD
Who else was here? God damn does this bring back memories.