03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3
Hearing a song that you've downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn't skip in that one spot
There was a pirated copy of "We are the Champions" by Queen circulating LimeWire and Kazaa circa 2003 that's given a generation of people mental whiplash.
Some hooligan thought it would be funny to splice/cut/edit "of the world" at the end of the song, so it concludes with "We are the champions" (jump cut / obvious splice) "of the wooooorld."
There's entire threads out there dedicated to finding that copy of the song because millions of people have heard it, but no one makes the connection between the hostile actors modifying those songs and sharing them on file-sharing applications versus the originals.
There were also numerous garage band covers circulating around also - "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana was a popular one to hear in extremely low quality with someone banging spoons or something.
Naz remembers.
:)
I accidentally downloaded a version of Du Hast back in the day that had a whole bunch of StarCraft unit quotes mixed into it that my dad fell in love with, despite never playing StarCraft. He literally likes it better than the real version lol.
Oh shiiiiiit son I remember getting in an argument with my cousin about that!!
What do you mean? Didn't Freddie sing it that way live? It doesn't end that way on the studio recording? Did they edit the studio version to match the live renditions?
Hearing a song that you've downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn't skip in that one spot
To this day my brain still jams in neutral when I don't hear a skip at the end of Guerilla Radio the last time Zach says "now"
toto_africa.mp3.exeWhy did Toto load up their music with malware? I tried to listen to this just now, but all I got were 23 toolbars in my IE5!
Getting so many songs by the wrong artist.
I had headstrong_linkinpark.
I could never find it on their albums.
Years later find out its by Trapt instead haha
Can't think of a one hit wonder band with a more bigoted piece of shit as the front man. Dimly lite souls, the entire lot.
I thought "Bittersweet Symphony" was an Oasis song for years thanks to Limewire.
teenage_wasteland_the_who.mp3
Different problem, same vibe.
House of the Rising Sun by Pink Floyd. Turns out it was a cover ny Frijid Pink.
Pretty sure the biggest victims of this were Rockapella (who apparently did every a cappella song) and Weird Al (who apparently recorded every comedy song).
Here’s how cool Al Yankovic is though: for years he maintained a list on his website of every comedy song falsely attributed to him and all the actual artists who made them. I don’t think it’s up anymore, there can’t be much need for it these days, but Al was very cool for doing that.
I think I had crimson and clover by “Pink Floyd”
Yes. I once downloaded a Stroke9 greatest hits album, and it included the song "Story of a girl". When it came on, I thought "huh, I didn't know they did this song. Cool." Then for more than 10 years I thought it was their song.
That Zelda song from some Flash video labeled as System of a Down.
Crawling_(9-11_Remix).mp3 (bonus points if it's spelled Crawlin')
Rage Against The Machine - DX Theme
Good tune
Hehe : "AC/DC - Born to be wild"
Also "AC/DC - Jailbreak" which I later found was not ACDC... And later found it actually was.
(and yes, ac/dc because why not)
Legend_of_Zelda_-_System_of_a_down.mp3
If anyone was wondering, it was Rabbit Joint that did the Zelda cover
Had one that was labeled as "Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra". Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage
I had Green Day - Story of a girl
In fact if you go to https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/green_day you will see Story of a Girl listed as #5 of their top 5 songs.
The song is by Nine Days.
I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc
Getting those album covers looking MINT!
Cant have no low res album covers
Ugh.. the time I've spent, in general, organizing and categorizing files of various types ... Thanks
Waiting 30 minutes to download a song just to hear someone’s bad Bill Clinton impression saying “my fellow Americans…”, the best of times and the worst of times
Wait. This rings a bell, was there also an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression on this mp3?
But the file names were not as ordered and consistent like this, they were all over the place. Most of them did not even have proper meta data so I had lots of songs by "unknown artist". Creating playlists within a music player was a mess, you basically had to sort and play songs via the file system
Track 3 by Various Artists went hard 😤🤟
Is that a sequel to Track 2 by Blur?
Oh God I hate iTunes for the compilations. I will have about 3 hours worth of music called Track # by
various artistsYouTube
Meanwhile today we have songs with much saner metadata such as https://m.soundcloud.com/laughing-mantis/x5o-p-ap-4-pzx54-p-7cc-7-eicar
I used to spend hours editing metadata for my music library on my computer but it was a constant uphill battle. My "various artists" and "unknown album" are still a mess.
Core memory unlocked! The anticipation of waiting for the download to complete and then hear something absolutely wrong was frustrating but I look back at it now and can't help but laugh.
I had a copy of Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet that would cut out and loop back in the middle of the song. I listened to it so much I could sing along without missing a beat. Then whenever I heard the right version, it always felt weird when the song flowed through normally.
Then you end up hating the "original" because you associate the downloaded one as the original and then life can never be the same again.
Just load up Winamp and listen to it on your beige plastic speakers and forget the actual version exists.
Ah.
Memories.
I had more than a few tracks that had AIM sign in/out door noises in the middle. Always made me laugh
But then sometimes you download it and it's a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session
Oh my god YES I completely forgot about that!!
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Damn it! I swear that was the correct file. Oh well, here I go downloading again! I'm sure it'll be right this time right??
My fav was downloading a track and then every 10~ish seconds it playing 'this is Mike Jones'
Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.
Porn you could watch or a wmv file that opens a website asking for payment?
Porn I could watch. However being prepubescent at the time I was shocked rather than interested.
I had that EXACT same red one. Man that rubber got really nasty feeling once a year in
Pro tip: rub the plastic with corn starch to get rid of the sticky residue
SLPT: rub me with baby oil for more sticky residue
This is soft touch plastic. It is a plastic with rubberized coating which unfortunately starts to melt after some time. When that happens, you can just remove the coating with isopropyl alcohol and paper towel to get just regular shiny plastic.
darude_sandstorm.mp3
scarlet_fire.mp3
toto_africa.mp3
I feel like this song didn't make a memetic comeback until like 2010+ and moreso after the cringey Weezer/Toto stuff.
please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!
Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.
Man I'm old.
Haha, same. We had emule und kazaa 😄
You Forgot the classic
metallica_nothing_else_matters.mp3.exe
It's on there but mislabeled as one of the others.
Nobody got time for that, everyone was happy listening to Unknown Artist - Unknown track
Nah my metadata was on point with notes and everything.
I used to fill out metadata like it was a hobby. Albums were in organized folders "artist/album/disc no. - track no. . track title.mp3". Some had release year and composer metadata lol
03 track 3.mp3
Hmm why is this song I downloaded only 35KB?
Alien_Ant_Farm-Smooth_Criminal.mp3.exe
Yeah not gonna click that
That filename brings me back.
Lmao, I remember trying to do that dance and skinning my foot on a jagged floorboard
My friends’ parents were mad but in retrospect, sorta on them for having that janky floor
Limp Bizkit - Nookie (cookie monster version)
I was not expecting to see this here, but here we are. And you bet your ass I'm singing it in my head.
This brings me back to Napster days
Every radio DJ with a comedy song bit had their songs labeled as “Weird Al” on all the file sharing networks.
Such misattribute Weird Al classics like:
“My Fart Will Go On” “Pet Names for Genitalia” “Ugly Girl” And the best one…”Toast”
I’ve actually seen Heywood Banks (the guy who actually did Toast) live. Have signed mercy somewhere. Good times.
you forgot about sex_pistols_never_mind_the_bollocks.exe
Lemme just scan that with Spybot first to make sure....
I have my old fat iPod classic in my car now. I found an iPod Jack in the arm rest and went searching through my old tech drawer to dust it off. It's got so many bangers on it, but sometimes it just cuts out halfway through a song, waits for 30 seconds and starts the next one up, always when you're just getting into it
Hard drive might need replacing
Crazy to put a hard drive in a portable device tbh cause that shit is gonna get shaken up and jostled while spinning
I use mine in my car as well, it still works fine though. My car is from that weird era where cars had Bluetooth connectivity with phones but it doesn't work well enough to where I can just hop in my car and have it work, so if I'm in a rush and can't set my phone up I'll just throw on one of my iPod playlists and I'm all good!
linkin_park_numb.exe
trancetrack17.mp3
You could use LimeWire to get LimeWire Pro. Good times.
But wasn't Limewire Pro just extra viruses and ads though?
You just traided the ads with all your accounts on your PC
I still have mine. Found it last weekend in my parents' attic. Nostalgia ultima!
Didn't remember how generic they were until I saw this!
I had some little grey box of an mp3 player in the late 90s that held like roughly one or two smallish albums. I remember one day finding a recording of my gym teacher trying to figure out how it worked for like five minutes after unknowingly pushing the record button.
That’s sounds pretty fancy for the late 90s
It was!
I feel old
I feel so HECKING old
How do you think I feel, I felt old when these posts were about walkmans.
Mine was full of power metal. I don't know if it's just my brain deleting all the bad stuff, but it feels these times were so much better idk ..
I'll join you in that (probable) delusion. Life was so much better, the internet was better, climate was better , TV was better.
Of course I was younger and not as cynical and fucking tired of everything so that might explain my feelings
That all predates an algorithm that wants to make you angry. The internet was better before people got good at squeezing every cent out of it.
TV: mainstream streaming services didn't exist and you were forced to watch whatever was on cable, unless you were one of the early movie pirates.
Internet: dialup, shitty DSL, poorly designed web 1.0 sites. Need I say more?
Life: yes, you were young and not cynical yet. That's why it seemed better. As a fully grown adult in the early 2000s, things were not that different. I had the Iraq invasion, Bush, and the "war on terrorism" to be angry about.
You got me on the climate thing though.
You're not wrong, they were better times for sure. The wild west of the internet days full of questionable clicks to sites and downloads. We were so young. We had so much to learn!
I wouldn't want to go back to that internet.
Today it has some problems, but nothing which can't be solved, before you had to deal with too much bullshit
I had one of these in college. It was a good little player. Reasonably inexpensive. One end was a cap that came off and was a full size USB, so that you didn't need to carry around cables.
I'm not going to tell you how long it took me to figure out that the hold switch made the storage mount as read only when plugged into a computer.
I went through a few over the years. Some were this exact brand (in blue or black). Some were basically the same but more square. At first they had built-in storage, but later ones just had a micro SD slot. Some used a AAA battery, some rechargeable. Some had an FM radio tuner built-in.
They were all great. My smartphones ended up replacing them eventually, but it was really nice to have physical buttons. And, in college in the 2010's, it was nice to have a USB drive on me at all times.
The other day while starting pack we came across my old iPod mini, with the blue aluminum shell. Guess who's getting a flash drive and new firmware!?
Oh I still have my pink one, never through about flashing it! This is exciting!
Arm the nugget!
I have one almost exactly like that (different brand, but looks exactly the same besides that). Would anyone know how to recover data from it (some text files, and potentially some recordings made with the built-in microphone)? Whenever I plug it into a computer the loading screen comes up on the player but nothing happens (computer can't mount it), and turning it on also just gets me to the loading screen where it stays without moving forward.
The memory is corrupt, that's why it won't load.
Do you mean volatile or non-volatile memory (ie. is it theoretically possible to recover the data)?
I always have good luck with gparted, testdisk on Linux
I don't think it even gets assigned a file in /dev.
[26850.924530] usb 2-3.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [26851.024961] usb 2-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10d6, idProduct=10d6, bcdDevice= 1.00 [26851.024976] usb 2-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0This is all that dmesg displays when I connect it to my computer.
Might have a file system your OS can't handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.
Those are usually just FATs. The left cap pops off and exposes a USB port. The player itself shows up as a thumb drive.
My favorite thing to download from Limewire was Limewire Pro.
Aaand you just lost your accounts
loreen_euphoria (1).mp3
heading out after school to the internet café to play Counter Strike with your friends near the mall.
I'd download files that were called like cool.house.music2003.mp3. Found some legitimately good tracks that I could never identify that way.
track id????
The image tells me the owner was not American...
Why?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=_fUEzBt89U4&
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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The holy nugget
hipsdontlie.mp3
ah the good old days, where instead of recommendation algorithms you had some guy deliberately adding more popular artists' names to songs so you'd accidentally download them and broaden your horizons a bit
shoutouts to whoever mislabeled Chylinska as Rammstein in 2001 btw, you made me like 5% cooler
That’s how Soulja Boy boosted his numbers. He would upload his own songs and rename them to popular ones lol
LimeWire was terrible. Quickly switched to Soulseek and have been using it ever since. Actually Nicotine+, but that's besides the point.
Don'twaste, yourtime, onme, yeralready, the voice inside maiyead
WHEREAREYEEEEW
By the time I got an Mp3 player like this, the second generation iPod released soon after. 😬
It's better than ipad anyway. You just stick it in to load music onto it, you don't need iTunes or a cable, and it's nore compact too. I miss those simple devices.
I remember way back in the day helping a friend back up their stuff. I never had used an iPod before and plugged theirs in to their computer expecting to be able to just use the file browser to get to it, like common sense would dictate. That's the day I discovered Apple doesn't really do common sense.
You can still buy 'em on AliExpress for example (I got the RUIZU MP3 player without a screen for 20€). If you are a sound nerd or hifi enthusiast you can get one that connects to a Bluetooth DAC (like the fiio for example) for super sound.
It's kind of quiet in a way to just push play and knowing exactly what you'll get (no hiccups, no commercials, no "you maybe'll like this new song Spotify stuff"...).
Audio Satellite was the best.
Wow forgot that existed. Amazing.
florida_whistle.mp3
Napster for me, and I downloaded the entire Metallica anthology after Lars Ulrich said what he did.
The good ol' days
.MP3
Ftfy
awww yiss
I remember having a chinese-branded one that could fit abooooout thirty mp3s on it. It had one of those buttons that you could click in all four directions or in the center, but to charge or change the songs on it you needed a really hard to find cable.
Good ol’ Kazaa
vertical_horizon_everything_you_want.mp3
I swear I had this exact model in blue, before going back to SanDisk
There is a song that I can no longer access on an old iPod. It was that song "Better Off Alone" by Alice DJ, but it had like extra songs added into it kinda like a mashup of a few other songs. How I WISH I could go back and download it on Limewire. :(
I still use one of those MP3 players and MP3s of music and podcasts, best way to go for a walk and not have to worry if you're mugged, all they get is a cheap MP3 player!
I had that exact player
Same, but mine was a silverish Gray colour. Mine had 128MB storage.
that weird fish heads song that was misattributed to TMBG
Fish Heads was by Barnes & Barnes, I think the short film was from SNL. Dr. Demento has a cameo in it.
I'm always reminded of the Gourds' cover of Gin N Juice that was attributed to String Cheese Incident.
iPeanut
That time when seemingly every fucking user-made music video had a high chance of DAE LE EPIC REQUIEM FOR A DREAM blasting away in it.
You don't know me. I'm not yelling. What is wrong with you people. Hit_me_baby1Mo_time.mp3
And then you get that one song that's had the volume boosted and burst your ear drums.
mp3(.)com then ARES
Good times
Now, I use YMusic [Andriod].
Straight from YT server.
Enlighten me of my ways, if you have anything better!
30GB of music on an SD card, because my phone cant do LTE and is stuck on EDGE. If you have old CDs, spend an evening watching YT or something while putting in a new disc every few minutes, otherwise download from youtube with Newpipe/Seal/yt-dlp or buy stuff on bandcamp. Probably saves you a couple 100 megs of data volume each month
Thanks for the info!
@jimmydoreisalefty @3FingersOfMilk, Vivaldi Android has inbuild a own YT client.
Alternatively you can use Andisearch, which permits to watch YT and others, sandboxed in the search results.
I still remember the day my dad took this out of his pocket and put earphones in my ears in the bus. That day I understood he's not that old and still has a young guy living inside him.
Audiogalaxy for me.
Must have been nice to afford an mp3 player back then. I bet you unironically Grey Pouponed people too.
I got one of these for like $20 at Sears. They were far from bougie lol
I thought the Grey Poupon reference would have made it pretty clear it was a joke, but whatever.
Dongle mp3 players were super cheap, you could get one for basically free in the early aughts.
They're the lowest tier nugget and companies kept giving them away with their logo on it
What? These were only like 30 euro, every kid with some pocket money could get one.
