Voted for Apollo and Waffles. Apollo (like WhatCD) is a little better at listing the release information (year & catalog number) which helps when you are looking for a certain master.

Let's keep this going. Take the poll, and comment if you have anything else to say

Exigo is fantastic but as most of you know, it is the hardest one to get in, so for most people it's out of the question.

The second best nowadays is PassTheHeadphones with its also huge collection.
Then the third one would be Apollo.

Waffles never had a huge database, there are plenty of cases where I couldn't even find normal 16bit FLACs of mainstream music.
That, and the site's search engine results page and the presentation of each artist's albums/singles/etc downloads page was terrible in terms of usability compared to the gazelle powered sites like What.CD, Apollo, etc.

Originally Posted by LollipopCorn

Exigo is fantastic but as most of you know, it is the hardest one to get in, so for most people it's out of the question.

The second best nowadays is PassTheHeadphones with its also huge collection.
Then the third one would be Apollo.

Waffles never had a huge database, there are plenty of cases where I couldn't even find normal 16bit FLACs of mainstream music.
That, and the site's search engine results page and the presentation of each artist's albums/singles/etc downloads page was terrible in terms of usability compared to the gazelle powered sites like What.CD, Apollo, etc.

Thanks for your thorough contribution

You're welcome mate!

Forgot to add that the requests filled stats are also very useful to have somewhere.
Especially back on What.cd you could request pretty much anything, and somebody would fill it.
I've also done the same.
For example I had a request which was only available for purchase in iTunes Russia.
With a little useful bounty somebody would fill it in a matter of hours ( and he did )

Nowadays notwhat.cd for example has a very big amount of unfulfilled requests.
PTH is doing great in this case.

@LollipopCorn This will answer your question

Apollo vs. PassTheHeadphones vs. Nostre.am vs. Notwhat.cd

So indeed notwhat.cd is underdeveloped.
All the numbers are very low.
Makes me wonder if uploading my FLACs there is useful at all ( I'm afraid with those numbers they'll shut down in the near future )

Just signed up to Zomb and like it! Have uploaded a few which have been leeched straightaway so easy to get a good ratio. Come on if you have FLAC or other lossless bootlegs to share join and share!