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
Does Limewire still exist? I’m too afraid to check, probably get a virus from just googling it.
It’s now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.
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
Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.
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 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.
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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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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
Do they make a wrapped for downloading music from YT and fixing the metadata with Picard?
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.
Limewire is still alive?
no, that’s the joke.
