I spent many nights browsing what.cd and building up my collection in the early days.

Somewhat off-topic , but I just posted this question on HN which is sort of related - how did early streaming sites build up their collections?

Maybe the founders of Spotify were actually big uploaders on what.cd and already had many TB of albums?? (Semi-joking, I know this is unlikely, but I’m desperately curious for the answers to this mystery.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555150

Please comment if you have any thoughts as otherwise my curiosity is getting buried in the depths of hackernews!