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.
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.
Metallicock! 🤟
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.
if you give it to AI you’ll get an answer that’s also incorrect.
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.)
Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.
In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you
I didn’t get Internet until 2011 or so in the home. Then it was dial up for another few years. There was no other options where we lived since it was in the country.
Edit: we did have a second line because landlines were so cheap
yeah…I had to earn by gigabit fiber.
Oh I got my fiber last year. But in the meantime I at least had ADSL starting 2004 or 2005. In a post-soviet nation at that
I had dial up when using the music sharing software napster/limewire but I think it was like 2002. I had moved on to just torrenting albums by 2007. 2007 seems like a meme for late adopters.
My grandparents still had dial-up in 2016.
What made them decide to quit dial up?
The company that provided service finally had a DSL option at their location. Though 2mbps/.5mbps wasn’t much of an upgrade over duplexed 56k in modern Internet terms especially since they were the furthest house from the node.
They died
No one wants a phone without a keyboard. My dad is sticking with his blackberry.
I genuinely miss typing on a physical phone keyboard. Not because it was faster, but because if I mistyped I could blame myself and not my phone changing the sizes of the touch keys based on predictive word suggestions. Makes me want to yeet my phone which I can‘t do bc it‘s expensive.
Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.
Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that… my folks couldn’t get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won’t lay cable out there)
When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.
I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).
Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.
In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.
Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.
Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I’m glad it’s better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?
I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.
How was the satellite
This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.
You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.
Use Lidarr with Usenet
Lidarr is heavily lacking for my artists, missing a significant amount of information as their database relies on cache atm, or something. Still, it occasionally downloads some stuff from Slskd. Speaking of Soulseek I find it weird that edited searching for Lady Gaga never returns results. Only for her song or album names.
I had the same issue with Lady Gaga. So weird
Soulseek is more than enough when it comes to music in my experience.
Soulseek is fantastic.
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.
So, how does the Bandcamp thing work? Can you pay for files that you download and then own?
Absolutely, and you can download them in many formats. For example, very good quality FLAC files.
Yep, pretty much a digital music store. You pay money, you get the music file, often mp3 or lossless, your choice.
And on Fridays all of the money goes to the artist or label (depending on who is actually running the page) and nothing goes to bandcamp themselves. Which is strange but okay.
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 wish foobar was on Linux
I miss Audiogalaxy and its satellite.
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3
Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe
Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet… Damn the good old days.
Usenet is still a thing
Does Limewire still exist? I’m too afraid to check, probably get a virus from just googling it.
Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.
They put a backdoor in the software to disable it, but the underlying P2P network (gnutella) should technically still work. But you shouldn’t even try, there’s much more active alternatives.
It’s now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.
You are now the name of a crypto token.
I was thrilled that I cringed my kids by coming up with “rizzmas” and then saddened to find that it, too, is crypto.
The damn coins steal all the names and therefore domains. Your username? Probably a cryptocoin name by now
I couldn’t find a coin gor lemmyman, but the ticker for “lemon nation” is “LEMMY”.
I think I need to start my own crypto lol
Lol have to be careful when I say to someone I use lemmy now to not lead them to a cryptocoin.
And start soon, all the names are almost taken! :D
Snapdrop was sold to Limewire recently
I was surprised 5 months ago that Limewire has morphed into doing short-term, web-based, file-hosting under the name filetransfer.io
I needed to share a video, larger than attachment size. Searched for ‘fileshare online’.
The video successfully hosted for free, and was viewed.
No report on how many viruses the viewer picked up /s.
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 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.
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”
deleted by creator
Or
PamAnderson.exewhich was indeed a self-contained jpeg, like really.deleted by creator
[Cross-eyed Bear Award]
You mistyped the lyrics 194 times.
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?
That wasn’t SOAD?
Nope! It’s hilarious how many people came across it through file sharing though. That’s so cool to have this weird culture connection haha.
https://kotaku.com/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zelda-song-but-thi-5885558
“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
Limewire is still alive?
