Limewire is still alive?
no, that’s the joke.
I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
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.
Only 8 viruses for 1102 songs?
That’s definitely fake
Feels like 8 viruses were standard with any Limewire / Kazaa install! Lol
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.
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.
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe
Bear Share ftw
Those things used to circulate so much. I had a collection of computer virus that came by my computer by somebody’s floppy, downloads, etc.
Then, by 2008 I decided to look try one option in an anti-virus software that I didn’t know what it did… it erased the entire collection.
System Restore to the rescue!
That said, if you were running Linux even back then, I feel for you. I don’t think OS snapshots were a thing yet in 2008.
Hum… You think I was collecting virus in the system folders?
And Linux could do backups perfectly well back then. I just didn’t have offline backups of the virus, and the online one got erased too. Why would Linux do OS snapshots anyway? It’s not something one would need.
Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet… Damn the good old days.
Usenet is still a thing
yeah, but now that have a retention of more than 100 days. It’s not the same anymore.
[Cross-eyed Bear Award]
You mistyped the lyrics 194 times.
I would give anything to go back to listening to music on limewire. Download times be damned. It was a simpler time.
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.
I remember using their website to search for songs, select them for download and having their satellite client download them for me by the time i came home.
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.
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.
Qobuz and Bandcamp
Also hdtracks
Refurb IPods with upgraded batteries, Wolfson DAC, and 512GB SSDs are a thing.
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Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
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
nicotine+ is fantastic
Exactly. If you want to go back to pirating songs, just pirate songs wth.
Do they make a wrapped for downloading music from YT and fixing the metadata with Picard?
You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.
Or that one “System of a Down” Zelda song
“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
Why do I miss that program so much?
Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
Thanks for the rabbit hole.
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.
yt-dlpftw
no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.
And a 50/50 chance of it being a virus.
Or the audio clip of Bill Clinton saying he did not have sexual relations
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.
Yooooo, I had the bill clinton ones too lol
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…)
FLAC or WAV are lossless so yes.
MP3 or Ogg Vorbis are lossy so better for listening on the go.
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
No… Things literally were simpler back then as information moved a lot slower and the internet was far less privatised, if at all.
Your chat logs were saved to your own local drive, not a cloud, and you could delete them. Social media was just your web page you made for free on Geocities or Angelfire. Email spam was mostly chain mail. There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet. And so on.
And, FWIW, there were no such things as apps. Just programs. Apps started with the smart phone.
there were no such things as apps
FWIW, people were talking about “killer apps” for various platforms back in the 1980s.
I don’t know what to tell you. It certainly wasn’t a word I or any one I spoke to used to describe programs.
No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).
OTOH, I do agree that “program” was more common than “application”.
Mostly – your comment about “no apps” dredged up the phrase “killer apps” in my brain somehow.
Nope. I was a kid around the 80s/90s and we had no dedicated computer teachers; although universities probably had access to those types of publications. That information was pretty niche in Australia for regular people, especially kids, and we were always at least 2 years behind the US on everything.
There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet.
Ahem IRC…
Oh, true. Those bots were not clutter though, IMO.
Haha this thread is bringing back memories.
I still have songs from the early piracy days that were obviously not the artist I was trying to download. I’ve not identified a couple of them, even to this day.
Does it say Weird Al?
I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things “Not Weird Al” so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn’t actually Weird Al.
Worth running them through musicbrainz Picard scanner. I think most from that era will have a signature added to he db. (Assuming you’ve not tried this.)
if you give it to AI you’ll get an answer that’s also incorrect.
Metallicock! 🤟
