Open denisnazarov opened 7 years ago
I know a guy who has a lot of that data compiled and sorta archived privately.
An (alleged) dump of What.cd's database is available on open trackers, apparently prepared by the staff before the shutdown. The list of collages is in there, as well as the necessary related tables.
I've got a fairly large dump of .torrent files and metadata that I've been holding onto that I'd be glad to package up.
As you may have heard, what.cd, a private torrent tracker that is often called "the greatest music collection in the history of the world," was permanently shut down last week.
By many accounts, it was one of the most thorough music catalogs in history, and its shutting down represents a huge loss of cultural heritage data.
E.g.:
The goal of this issue is to coordinate an effort to preserve the metadata from what.cd in Mediachain (albums, artists, tracks, collages) for the purposes of cultural preservation (not the torrents or media itself).
Why Mediachain is the appropriate solution:
Please comment below if you have access to a recent What.cd metadata dump or would like to help in some other way.
Related to https://github.com/mediachain/apps/issues/10