Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.
Man I’m old.
Haha, same. We had emule und kazaa 😄
I’ll do you one better, WinMX
Morpheus, Kazaa, and hands down the best - SoulSeek. It had by far the best users and collections.
Forgot about Morpheus. And what’s this “had” business with slsk?
SLSK is still alive, well, and the best place for super rare music!
Did you have LimeWire on your computer? Or the family computer?
I was like 10 so I don’t remember lol
No dad i didn’t you’re not blaming me for the viruses nice try
Why is your homework folder 4 GB?
Oh yeah? Well why did RealPlayer try to open your “1994 Taxes” folder?
Mine was full of power metal. I don’t know if it’s just my brain deleting all the bad stuff, but it feels these times were so much better idk …
I’ll join you in that (probable) delusion. Life was so much better, the internet was better, climate was better , TV was better.
Of course I was younger and not as cynical and fucking tired of everything so that might explain my feelings
That all predates an algorithm that wants to make you angry. The internet was better before people got good at squeezing every cent out of it.
TV: mainstream streaming services didn’t exist and you were forced to watch whatever was on cable, unless you were one of the early movie pirates.
Internet: dialup, shitty DSL, poorly designed web 1.0 sites. Need I say more?
Life: yes, you were young and not cynical yet. That’s why it seemed better. As a fully grown adult in the early 2000s, things were not that different. I had the Iraq invasion, Bush, and the “war on terrorism” to be angry about.
You got me on the climate thing though.
You’re not wrong, they were better times for sure. The wild west of the internet days full of questionable clicks to sites and downloads. We were so young. We had so much to learn!
I wouldn’t want to go back to that internet.
Today it has some problems, but nothing which can’t be solved, before you had to deal with too much bullshit
Limp Bizkit - Nookie (cookie monster version)
This brings me back to Napster days
I was not expecting to see this here, but here we are. And you bet your ass I’m singing it in my head.
I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc
I even typed up all the lyrics to all my songs.
Oh I spent a good amount of time synchronizing lyrics too lol
Same here. I had my iTunes library meticulously organized. Finding mp3s, downloading them, importing them, then updating the metadata.
And now I just use Spotify lol
I still do all this shit. I’ll never switch to those DRM infested subscription services bullshit
I just use a cracked version of Spotify ;)
What I hate most about spotify is that you can’t block artists. It’s always pushing stuff I don’t like and I can’t do anything to stop it
You absolutely can block artists
Does it require a paid sub? Because I never found a way with a free account
No, you can do it under artist profile
Thanks Picard for being an absolute legend at automating all this stuff, i do it on my pc too despite being extremely lazy.
What’s Picard 👀
Getting those album covers looking MINT!
please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!
As someone who had one of these, I’m just surprised there’s any consistency at all
There is rock hard consistency!
I still use mp3s today (no spotify or similar bullshit) and stick to the name convention: [ARTIST_NAME]-[SONG_NAME].mp3
I’ve used Spotify since about 2012, and have been considering setting up some *arr instances at some point in the future to remedy that. Music discovery is just so much easier on something like Spotify though.
*arr instances What is an *arr instance?
I still discover music the old way. I listen to it at a friends place or in the radio :D
Sonarr, Radarr, and related projects for, uh. Sailing the high seas. :-)
Mine is
Artist name - Song name [(Version)] (Year)[(Bitrate)]Version is optional. It’s stuff like Radio edit, remastered, extended, etc.
Bitrate is optional as I switched to FLAC and rarely need to use MP3.
The worst one I have is something from Beatles in 32kbps HE-AAC at 22.5kHz SR with name written in Chinese. It is one of the oldest files I have.I find it a little bit weird to put meta data in the file name. Meta data is already there and you can see it on your computer with the tool exiftool (if you’re on a Linux system).
But I think you’re not on a Linux system, because you would avoid white spaces then :D
Welp, not if you used to rip from YouTube. And the files ripped from Deezer have wrong year most of the time anyway because they used it for file creation date.
And when my music touches my computer it’s only because I am backing it up (as I should be doing). The only correct information is on CD rip of “The very best of Louis Armstrong” because I put that in myself using Kid3.
Why should youtube media not have meta data? As soon media data was created, it automatically has meta data. If you create a music file, you get meta data like length, audio bitrate, sample rate, etc.
But okay, you might mean data, which is not related to the file and can be added as meta data.
Mine are always [artist]/[album]/[tracknumber]-[title]
I used to use Ogg, but I’m switching to Opus because it’s a superior format.
slashes in file names is just barbaric, if you use a good and free operating system, too :)
Seems to me more like they’re just organizing their music collection into directories
slashes in file names
we call them paths, ᏏᎡᏌᎻ
I had that EXACT same red one. Man that rubber got really nasty feeling once a year in
Pro tip: rub the plastic with corn starch to get rid of the sticky residue
SLPT: rub me with baby oil for more sticky residue
This is soft touch plastic. It is a plastic with rubberized coating which unfortunately starts to melt after some time. When that happens, you can just remove the coating with isopropyl alcohol and paper towel to get just regular shiny plastic.
It’s in landfill now but good to know with dealing with items with old nasty rubber
That shit had a comeback the last couple of years, it feels really premium, until it doesn’t.
Just a coincidence
darude_sandstorm.mp3
scarlet_fire.mp3
toto_africa.mp3
Audio Satellite was the best.
Wow forgot that existed. Amazing.
My favorite thing to download from Limewire was Limewire Pro.
Aaand you just lost your accounts
you forgot about sex_pistols_never_mind_the_bollocks.exe
Lemme just scan that with Spybot first to make sure…
I have one almost exactly like that (different brand, but looks exactly the same besides that). Would anyone know how to recover data from it (some text files, and potentially some recordings made with the built-in microphone)? Whenever I plug it into a computer the loading screen comes up on the player but nothing happens (computer can’t mount it), and turning it on also just gets me to the loading screen where it stays without moving forward.
The memory is corrupt, that’s why it won’t load.
Do you mean volatile or non-volatile memory (ie. is it theoretically possible to recover the data)?
Might have a file system your OS can’t handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.
Those are usually just FATs. The left cap pops off and exposes a USB port. The player itself shows up as a thumb drive.
I always have good luck with gparted, testdisk on Linux
I don’t think it even gets assigned a file in /dev.
[26850.924530] usb 2-3.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [26851.024961] usb 2-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10d6, idProduct=10d6, bcdDevice= 1.00 [26851.024976] usb 2-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0This is all that dmesg displays when I connect it to my computer.
Waiting 30 minutes to download a song just to hear someone’s bad Bill Clinton impression saying “my fellow Americans…”, the best of times and the worst of times
Wait. This rings a bell, was there also an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression on this mp3?
Remember downloading a couple gigs of MUGEN game in 2008… needing to swap files to fit in characters playable.
I have my old fat iPod classic in my car now. I found an iPod Jack in the arm rest and went searching through my old tech drawer to dust it off. It’s got so many bangers on it, but sometimes it just cuts out halfway through a song, waits for 30 seconds and starts the next one up, always when you’re just getting into it
Hard drive might need replacing
Crazy to put a hard drive in a portable device tbh cause that shit is gonna get shaken up and jostled while spinning
I use mine in my car as well, it still works fine though. My car is from that weird era where cars had Bluetooth connectivity with phones but it doesn’t work well enough to where I can just hop in my car and have it work, so if I’m in a rush and can’t set my phone up I’ll just throw on one of my iPod playlists and I’m all good!
And then you get that one song that’s had the volume boosted and burst your ear drums.
