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
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.
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.
Refurb IPods with upgraded batteries, Wolfson DAC, and 512GB SSDs are a thing.
Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
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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I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
Use Lidarr with Usenet
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.
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.
Bear Share ftw
Limewire is still alive?
no, that’s the joke.
[Cross-eyed Bear Award]
You mistyped the lyrics 194 times.
