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