In the sprawling, chaotic archives of the early-to-mid 2000s internet, a quiet revolution was taking place. While the masses flocked to Limewire, Napster, and BitTorrent to download compressed MP3s, a niche community of audiophiles and music archivists was building a hidden library of pristine sound. Their platform of choice wasn’t a shady peer-to-peer client or a sleek modern app—it was .