What streaming took away from music discovery
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When music discovery was an adventure
Peer-to-peer file sharing begins, revolutionizing music access
Elite private tracker emerges with FLAC quality and passionate community
OiNK's successor becomes the definitive music archive
Spotify and Apple Music make piracy obsolete—but at what cost?
More than just free music
Passionate experts recommending hidden gems, not algorithms
FLAC rips with perfect metadata, not compressed streams
Obscure B-sides, live bootlegs, rare pressings
Your collection, forever—no licensing expirations
What we gained—and what disappeared
The irony is that piracy felt like a community…Hacker News Comment
Streaming feels like a vending machine.