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I think Shoutcast died when the RIAA rule went into effect that any online replay required royalties to be paid out. Or, at least, i remember a chilling effect that led to people just saying it wasn't worth it.SLOSifl posted:I don’t know exactly when it happened, but I have given up the entire idea of a massive personal media library.
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I quit moving my mp3 collection from hard drive to hard drive two computers ago. The few albums I can't play from Spotify are tucked away in my Google Drive or streamable from youtube. Spotify just works, the recommendations are excellent and have helped me to tons of music I would've missed otherwise. Storing CDs just seems dumb now, if I wanted physical media, I would start doing the whole vinyl thing with its attractive covers and such. Luckily I'm a poor millennial renting near a major city with my wife, so I'll never have the space for such folly! barbecue at the folks has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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FilthyImp posted:I think Shoutcast died when the RIAA rule went into effect that any online replay required royalties to be paid out. Or, at least, i remember a chilling effect that led to people just saying it wasn't worth it. ? https://directory.shoutcast.com/ Unless that's not "real" Shoutcast, which wouldn't surprise me, as I don't see D I G I T A L L Y I M P O R T E D sorted to the top of the list. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 08:35 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 08:23
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doctorfrog posted:I have to admit this is starting to sell me on Spotify. I wonder if that ad-blocker thing still works on it. Just buy a subscription FFS
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I prefer having local copies of all my music, and don't like streaming services because I don't like random mixes. I also don't have a massive library, though - I don't understand how people end up with 100s of gigabytes of music. I mean, as far as I'm concerned there just isn't that much decent music in the first place, and my library is small enough I could burn it to a few DVDs.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I prefer having local copies of all my music, and don't like streaming services because I don't like random mixes. I also don't have a massive library, though - I don't understand how people end up with 100s of gigabytes of music. I mean, as far as I'm concerned there just isn't that much decent music in the first place, and my library is small enough I could burn it to a few DVDs. You don't have to use the mixes, you can just play whichever albums you want to. But I have to say, the mixes and artist radios on Spotify tend to be really good. I very much disagree about the "there just isn't that much decent music in the first place". My curated local collection is around 20,000 tracks, and I have over a hundred "give this a spin" playlists on Spotify right now, and the same amount of tabs in Firefox for album reviews, and more keep coming all the time. This is strictly metal, but I can't imagine it being that much different in other genres.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Are shoutcast radios still A Thing? I recently went looking for Monkey Radio to find the original 24/7 chill study beats stream and it had been dead for a decade or so, lol. Luckily someone had made a Spotify playlist with most of the songs, which also tells just how much of even relatively obscure stuff is in Spotify these days.
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KozmoNaut posted:You don't have to use the mixes, you can just play whichever albums you want to. But I have to say, the mixes and artist radios on Spotify tend to be really good. I'm just talking about my personal preference - I'm not saying people are wrong for having massive libraries, just that it doesn't appeal to me. I didn't mean it to come across as judgemental. I also don't understand people who watch a lot of movies or follow sports, for what it's worth.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Are shoutcast radios still A Thing? I recently went looking for Monkey Radio to find the original 24/7 chill study beats stream and it had been dead for a decade or so, lol. Luckily someone had made a Spotify playlist with most of the songs, which also tells just how much of even relatively obscure stuff is in Spotify these days. soma.fm man!
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Oct 21, 2018 16:15
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 you can take my collection I will never watch all of from my cold dead hands.
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Only 480GB for movies? Lame. Gotta get those 6GB+ 4k rips! But my music collection is only like 30 gigs tops.
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Queen Combat posted:Only 480GB for movies? Lame. Gotta get those 6GB+ 4k rips! Scrub, you need the full DTS audio on those. Go big!
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Fallom posted:soma.fm man! I run the mission control station while I play Elite Dangerous, it’s fantastic
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:
Do you have Warehouse 13 and Eureka in there? if not, then you should.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:
How big is your "taxes\backup\sys32" folder? Kids these days are spoiled by the streaming sites.
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uvar posted:How big is your "taxes\backup\sys32" folder? Kids these days are spoiled by the streaming sites. Whoa, whoa. I just put them in a folder called "0097" (I think I hit upon that number while trying to clumsily save something while "busy" as a teenager, it's tradition now), and plop it in the root of whatever drive. Makes it easy for transferring and recovery if a system dies and you're trying to recover a hard drive, you see. Also the older I get the more I realize that pictures are better than video for media storage and imagination https://i.imgur.com/hFxYUEx.gifv
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There's nothing quite like poking around an old hard drive from 15 years ago and accidentally stumbling unto your old teenage porn stash. Some quality memories right there.
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As a teen I put everything into \media\porn. Reverse psychology except not.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:As a teen I put everything into \media\porn. Reverse psychology except not. I did the same but saved them on ZIP drives  Now I'll never recollect that one nameless chick that went on to become nothing getting railed by that one nameless pron dick that went on to become nothing. 90's era porn is lost simply because the saving medium changed too fast.
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Robnoxious posted:I did the same but saved them on ZIP drives All those pornos will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
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uvar posted:How big is your "taxes\backup\sys32" folder? Kids these days are spoiled by the streaming sites. 0 KB. The internet provides.
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I'm not very demanding, I just need a few pictures of some pretty ladies.
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Robnoxious posted:I did the same but saved them on ZIP drives I threw away my carefully curated CD-Rs because in those days Ultra HD meant 320x240 with a bitrate high enough for it to not look like Lego.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:All those pornos will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. "Tears" Right
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Horace posted:I threw away my carefully curated CD-Rs because in those days Ultra HD meant 320x240 with a bitrate high enough for it to not look like Lego. remember the people who collected giant binders of 1cd xvid movie rips and swore up and down that they looked just as good as a real dvd*? *because they watched them on a 17" monitor in their room and couldn't tell how blocky and smeared darker and high motion scenes were
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doctorfrog posted:Was it Napster that first let you browse through other folks' collections for other stuff you might like? That still sounds neat to me. Curated playlists on streaming services are a thing, I guess. And Spotify's curated playlists are really, really good.
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doctorfrog posted:Was it Napster that first let you browse through other folks' collections for other stuff you might like? That still sounds neat to me. Curated playlists on streaming services are a thing, I guess. For me, the first thing that let you browse through other folks' collections was double-clicking Network Neighborhood in the dorms back in 1998. I don't remember in Windows 98 shared things by default or if everyone was turning it on, but the University eventually locked things down due to not only bandwidth/copyright concerns, but people sharing things they didn't know they were. Edit: duh, finish your sentence. GI_Clutch has a new favorite as of 21:30 on Oct 22, 2018 |
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GI_Clutch posted:For me, the first thing that let you browse through other folks' collections was double-clicking Network Neighborhood in the dorms back in 1998. I don't remember in Windows 98 shared things by default or if everyone was turning it on, but the University eventually locked things down due. Yeah we found a guy's sex video of himself, it was hilarious
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My university had all the dorms connected by hubs (lol) for the first year i was there. I very quickly downloaded a piece of software that crawled the various subdomains looking for windows shares. I got so much good stuff (and also some very  stuff)
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My university had all the dorms connected by hubs (lol) for the first year i was there. I very quickly downloaded a piece of software that crawled the various subdomains looking for windows shares.
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The_Franz posted:remember the people who collected giant binders of 1cd xvid movie rips and swore up and down that they looked just as good as a real dvd*? I had seasons 1-6 of South Park on VCD, and it was quite well suited to that animation style because it looked okay when there was minimal motion. However the title sequence where the characters are assembled from paper was so unintelligible I didn't even know what was supposed to be going on until I saw those episodes on TV. But even watching this stuff on a 14" portable TV from a reasonable distance it was smeary. A 17" monitor would be like an IMAX screen for VCD/xvid rips.
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Death to .rmbv. I never seen one that didn't make me want to shiv the person who created it.
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a 45 MB episode of dragonball z that's the size of a postage stamp on your 15" monitor
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doctorfrog posted:I remember one of these crawlers I used at a job around 2000, and discovered that our IT guys had a ton of music and videos being openly shared with folder labels and text files accompanying them that basically said, “Share but don’t tell the suits!” Same! Our campus IT department at least had them under a passworded share, but I worked in the campus IT department so it didn’t matter. Eventually over a summer they upgraded the networking to switching and routing and you couldn’t just troll my network places but you could still access stuff by IP so what started happening was everyone who shared stuff had a text file of all the IP’s they knew of so we could all still share.  early 2000’a networking was awesome. Also I ran a counterstrike server for campus wide LAN play and a Direct Connect server after Napster got blocked (I was also banned by Metallica from Napster)
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Pham Nuwen posted:a 45 MB episode of dragonball z that's the size of a postage stamp on your 15" monitor tbf it was highly unlikely anything happened in any given episode.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Same! Our campus IT department at least had them under a passworded share, but I worked in the campus IT department so it didn’t matter. Before they reworked the LAN out my college there were so many people on DC all over campus that employees couldn't badge-in/open doors because the card readers would time out.
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Pham Nuwen posted:a 45 MB episode of dragonball z that's the size of a postage stamp on your 15" monitor I found a link to the entire Tenchi Muyo series on my favorite ROM website back in the day and I streamed the whole thing in like one or two sittings on lovely rural dialup. It was about postage stamp sized yeah.
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