> What.CD [0] was widely considered to be the music library of Alexandria, unparalleled in both its high quality standard and it's depth.

It was quality in technical quality of the audio in the files, but also in the organization and sourcing of the material, the QA-process of the encoding - down the the specific release the audio-file was from.

There was quantity, sure, but that was secondary to the quality. The quantity was just a side-effect of the place being known for quality, making it an attractive arena to participate in.

And it also had all the "weird"/non-standard things you don't find on mainstream streaming-services precisely because that is what independent curators are good at and often driven by.

This Anna's release... While in itself impressive in many ways does not compare to the things What.CD represented. It's almost the exact opposite:

- focus on most popular content - niche content (even by mainstream Spotify-standards) is not included

- quality is 160kbps ogg files, which is far from lossless, it's not tightly coupled to a release and even as so far the audio-grading goes, there's no transparent QA process for the content, nor is it available in audiophile fidelity.

This is definitely Apples vs Oranges.