You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.
Or that one “System of a Down” Zelda song
Link! He come to town…
That wasn’t SOAD? What about the Metallica Imperial Stormtrooper march?
“I’m the Only Gay Eskimo”, by Tenacious D (Kevin swears it’s them)
Dr. Demento - Windows 95 sucks (Bob Rivers)
and
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders - My Girl’s Pussy
I would give anything to go back to listening to music on limewire. Download times be damned. It was a simpler time.
You can by opting out of the current machinery of music.
I buy CDs and digital music on Qobuz and Bandcamp, and immediately archive it. Instant high quality lossless FLAC. Upload it to my own server and I can stream it on the go if I want. But for now, I also duplicate the effort by syncing the local files to my smart phone. I have complete and total authority over my music purchases. The simple time is now.
On another note, I’ve been thinking about resurrecting my iPod Classic or possibly my iPod nano. The rectangular yellow one. Loved that thing.
Refurb IPods with upgraded batteries, Wolfson DAC, and 512GB SSDs are a thing.
There is a whole cottage industry of replacement iPod parts now. I have seen some pretty cool ones with flash storage and clear cases.
Unfortunately the Minis and Nanos are a pain in the ass to open.
Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
Exactly. If you want to go back to pirating songs, just pirate songs wth.
nicotine+ is fantastic
No viruses disguised as music, afaik
How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.
Back in kazaa/limewire times, search for any music would always return a bunch of .exe files, like
Metallica - Fade to Black.exe. A lot of people learned the difference between file extensions the hard way
I would actually use Audio-Galaxy Satellite P2P again to find new music.
Had one of the best artist recommendation algorithms ever.
For your local music library tastes, it would first crossmatch to find other users who had the most similarity to your collection, then recommend you the artists that they had, that you didn’t.
Simple and elegant.
* As mentioned elsewhere, Nicotine/Soulseek is the modern leader for recommendations.
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Only 8 viruses for 1102 songs?
That’s definitely fake
Yeah, the banner ads on MySpace alone would give you more viruses than that from a single page.
Most the XP machines I had to wipe back then probably had more lines of malware code than OS.
Why do I miss that program so much?
no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.
It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.
Even our viruses were simpler. If you just learned not to click on .exe files from Limewire, you basically had the perfect antivirus.
Back when I actually used Windows I never used an anti-virus and I never got a virus.
Reminds me of a time where you could download YouTube videos by finding the link to the .avi file in the HTML source code of the page. Kid version of me felt like such a hacker.
Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
You miss your life from when the app was popular. Like all nostalgia, we don’t miss the product or game or app itself, we miss who we were and how things seemed simpler.
This frikkin keygen is broken and I can’t find the bloody exe I need to use to overwrite the original
I don’t. Those were some rough times, when you didn’t know whether or not you’d get the actual MP3, or a recording of a Bill Clinton impersonator selling something. These days it’s a lot easier to find direct downloads to the exact track you want, in a guaranteed 320Kbps MP3 or even a lossless format like FLAC.
Does that mean FLAC is the best file format for archiving?
As a rule of thumb, yes. Then you have purists who only listen to ripped vinyl records in 24 bits, 192kHz WAV format or people who don’t give a fuck about quality and live happily with millions of 128kbps MP3s.
It’s what I archive all my music in, so I’d say so. You get WAV quality without WAV file sizes.
When a FLAC (or any lossless) file is not available, I settle for 320Kbps MP3 (and not a single bit less). The quality is decent enough to be used in a live setting (I’m a DJ). Anything less than 320kbps, and you’re hurting treble output, which will be noticeable on high-end speakers to anyone under the age of 30.
Thank you for the detailed answer
Now that i know i can stop archiving all the available file types (i mainly was too lazy to research…)
Yooooo, I had the bill clinton ones too lol
I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3
I’d wanna see my kazaa wrapped. I used limewire for a while but my large p2p music library was built in the dial up kazaa and emule era.
“You deleted 7 entire TV series unwatched due to not being able to find a single episode that your brain wouldnt let you skip”
Personally just use foobar2000 with my music player and download my music on Bandcamp. I understand some people may find that inconvenient but supporting the artist is important to me.
I wish foobar was on Linux
Lol inconvenient?? Bandcamp’s whole selection is like 3% of the music that exists, tops. Try to download a Jay-Z or Eagles album off there. You will surely not be disappointed.
It’s not my only source of music, just the one I prefer to try first.
Or you tried to download any movie and it was - surprise - Fight Club, again!
I still have the vcd of my copy of fight club. it’s such a shitty copy but it adds to the dirt and grime of the actual movie.
Use Lidarr with Usenet
Soulseek is more than enough when it comes to music in my experience.
Soulseek is fantastic.
But with Nicotine+ client.
I have been deseperately trying to find a techno song from this era made with sounds of Super Mario bros. It used lots of samples from the water stage song. The song’s melody didn’t sound like a Mario song at all. It was trippy and energetic and almost hypnotic. I loved it so much.
I’m taking my chances and leaving this here. Maybe it rings a bell to someone in here.
Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet… Damn the good old days.
I remember I had a Slipknot song that had a weird audio glitch you could only hear with headphones on. Like a sudden very loud sucking sound. Scared the shit outta me several times.
Do they make a wrapped for downloading music from YT and fixing the metadata with Picard?
Limewire is still alive?
no, that’s the joke.
