about the scale, the same album in the tracker had several submissions, for dedicated format and regional editions.

while one can compare in terms of number of tracks, the quality used to be in another level altogether. from the article:

> The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s.

meanwhile the tracker had 16/24-bit flac rips of vinyl, with decent quality control where the track's metadata was verified for any artifacts. for the given quality, one could rip youtube music (maybe not as easily anymore) and achieve a larger scale in a similar quality level.

now if hypothetically tidal had all the music of the world and was accessible this way, then it would be a comparable resource. insane regardless.