{"id":40,"date":"2013-03-20T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:26:12","slug":"what-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/invite\/what-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"What.cd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background:#fff8e6;border-left:4px solid #f0b429;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 24px;border-radius:6px\">\n<strong>Heads up:<\/strong> Invites Shop no longer sells invites to this resource. Below is verified information (updated July 2026) on how things actually stand.\n<\/div>\n<h2>Status: dead since November 17, 2016 \u2014 but its heirs are very much alive<\/h2>\n<p>What.CD \u2014 widely considered the greatest music library in internet history \u2014 shut itself down on November 17, 2016 after French authorities seized servers at its host. The team destroyed the database and code to protect users. Its open-source engine, Gazelle, still powers most music trackers today.<\/p>\n<h2>The living successors \u2014 and the official way in (2026)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Redacted (RED)<\/strong> \u2014 the de-facto main heir. Note: the domain moved from redacted.ch to <strong>redacted.sh<\/strong> in November 2024. RED runs an <strong>official interview system<\/strong>: study the official prep site interviewfor.red, then join IRC <code>irc.scratch-network.net<\/code> port 6697 (SSL), channel <code>#RED-invites<\/code>, run a speedtest and queue with <code>!queue &lt;speedtest link&gt;<\/code>. The interview takes 1\u20132 hours; home direct connection only (no VPN\/proxy\/mobile); you get 3 attempts with 48 hours between them. Cheating means a permanent ban.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orpheus.network<\/strong> \u2014 the second heir, also interviews: IRC <code>irc.orpheus.network<\/code> port 7000 (SSL), <code>\/join #recruitment<\/code>; prep site interview.orpheus.network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fact<\/h2>\n<p>Both successors launched within days of What.CD&#8217;s death (Redacted on Nov 25, 2016; Orpheus&#8217;s ancestor on Nov 19, 2016) \u2014 the community rebuilt itself in under two weeks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f7fb;border-left:4px solid #4a6cf7;padding:14px 18px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:6px\">\n<strong>Availability &amp; stability.<\/strong> Many private resources are blocked in some countries or throttled by ISPs. See our short guide: <a href=\"https:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/vpn\/\">VPN for private communities \u2192<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What.cd<\/strong> is the largest musical private tracker that has gathered a really huge collection of different music. All music lovers sooner or later try to get to this wonderful resource finding quality music material. What.cd has a vast base of heavy music in FLAC format.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What.cd \/ What <\/strong>\u2014\u00a0is a giant musical private tracker, founded in October 2007. It is a private BitTorrent- tracker with a huge selection of music of all genres. Every day, about 200 thousand people spread hundreds or even thousands of different kinds of music releases in a variety of formats &#8211; from simple MP3 to heavy FLAC&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[166,168],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-music","7":"product_cat-popular","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What.CD Is Gone \u2014 Redacted &amp; Orpheus Interviews in 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What.CD died in 2016, but its heirs are alive: how to pass the Redacted (redacted.sh) and Orpheus interviews in 2026 \u2014 IRC channels, speedtest, rules, 3 attempts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/invite\/what-cd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What.CD Is Gone \u2014 Redacted &amp; Orpheus Interviews in 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What.CD died in 2016, but its heirs are alive: how to pass the Redacted (redacted.sh) and Orpheus interviews in 2026 \u2014 IRC channels, speedtest, rules, 3 attempts.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/invites-shop.com\/en\/invite\/what-cd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Invites-Shop - 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