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My mom had an old Led Zeppelin tape that for some weird reason had Black Dog very quietly taped on the same part as Stairway to Heaven, so you’d get some very soft riffing during the quiet parts. It was kind of cool.
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Dewgy posted:My mom had an old Led Zeppelin tape that for some weird reason had Black Dog very quietly taped on the same part as Stairway to Heaven, so you’d get some very soft riffing during the quiet parts. It was kind of cool. Was it an 8 track tape?
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For a while I guess people thought it was funny to edit songs by bands they didn't like into something wildly different partway through and put them on things like Limewire or Soulseek. I once acquired some  of the first Vampire Weekend album that suddenly turned into some kind of Cannibal Corpse-esque death metal halfway through each song.
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Imagined posted:For a while I guess people thought it was funny to edit songs by bands they didn't like into something wildly different partway through and put them on things like Limewire or Soulseek. I once acquired some I don’t see the problem here
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Aug 15, 2022 21:38
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I used to edit the song "Bastard of Christ" by Deicide to be the same size/length as top 40 hit songs and rename it so people trying to get the latest N'Sync or Britany Spears or whatever from me on Napster would end up with that instead of the real song. EDIT: and yes it was funny as hell
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Aug 15, 2022 22:12
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Did Napster have checksum or was it solely length/title/artist for songs? I don't remember anything about Napster.
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Kwyndig posted:Did Napster have checksum or was it solely length/title/artist for songs? For napster, I think it just had like a red light, yellow light, green light thing for how good people thought it was maybe? And then limewire had a star rating thing I think.
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Kwyndig posted:Did Napster have checksum or was it solely length/title/artist for songs? Based on how many downloads I got it seemed to just go by the size of the file or just didn't check at all.
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I think? It might have just shown file name and length. It's been a couple of decades so I don't fully remember.
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wa27 posted:Was it an 8 track tape? No, though it’s possible it was copied from one, hm. Might have to look into that!
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Desert Bus posted:I used to edit the song "Bastard of Christ" by Deicide to be the same size/length as top 40 hit songs and rename it so people trying to get the latest N'Sync or Britany Spears or whatever from me on Napster would end up with that instead of the real song. People renaming songs for a laugh is how I discovered Wesley Willis.
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that reminds me of something that feels like something out of another world now. i was a young teenager watching much music (canada's answer to MTV) and because we were in the process of moving i didn't have any kind of computer or internet access. a music video came on that blew my mind - less for the music but more for the utterly incredible animation. it looked like something out of samurai jack and i remember thinking it was the coolest loving thing i had ever seen. now i know it was gorillaz's classic clint eastwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw but unfortunately i missed the little overlay that gave you the band name and track title, probably got distracted by how blown away i was or didn't have a pen. i assumed it was some canadian animation art project that someone released as a music video, much would often put on weird stuff like that to get around minimum canadian content laws - if it was it might play a few times ever and then go back into the beaver hour vault and i'd never see it again. this was on friday, so for the next two days all i did was watch much music with a pen and paper on the hope that they'd replay the track. like, i spent two full days watching garbage videos and content i didn't like at all, just explicitly so i could learn the name of one track, so i could download it from napster when i got my computer back which i did, lol. for all i knew it could have been the last time they ever played that obscure thing and i'd have been wasting my time, the media was gone forever. the idea of dedicating several days worth of effort on a music video feels so crazy now.
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Humphreys posted:Listen for the smoke alarm beep in Nickelbacks 'This Is How You Remind Me' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6BNE62xGqE
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CoolCab posted:gorillaz I was so incredibly disappointed when I found out that Del isn't part of the Gorillaz and just a Ft. 
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Desert Bus posted:I think? It might have just shown file name and length. It's been a couple of decades so I don't fully remember. I think it was this, since people song's were all different quality of uploads, too. I was the jerk who never made my (veyr modest) music available for download. I was running a 14.4 modem and their downloading made my downloading slow to a stop, so I didn't share.
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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some bands seeded poison-pill edits of their own albums onto Napster/Limewire etc just to gently caress with us cheapskates. What I run into nowadays is the more subtle poo poo of people transcoding looooooooowww like 96kbps bitrate poo poo into FLAC or 320kbps which really does seem like something a label would do to gently caress with pirates.
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Imagined posted:Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some bands seeded poison-pill edits of their own albums onto Napster/Limewire etc just to gently caress with us cheapskates. I vaguely remember on artist who did this, you'd get the first ten seconds or so of the song then you'd get yelled at for "stealing".
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https://twitter.com/kwiens/status/1558688970799648769
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Bargearse posted:I vaguely remember on artist who did this, you'd get the first ten seconds or so of the song then you'd get yelled at for "stealing". 
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Unless you click through to the tweet or embiggen the photo it's easy to miss the buried lede that in the process they got Doom running on a John Deere. (  )
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Well they do say nothing runs like a Deere
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This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone 
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Humphreys posted:Listen for the smoke alarm beep in Nickelbacks 'This Is How You Remind Me' Going to have to change their username to Dick & Ear Trauma. The failed technology is anything used to listen to Nickelback  
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Kwyndig posted:Did Napster have checksum or was it solely length/title/artist for songs? Bargearse posted:I vaguely remember on artist who did this, you'd get the first ten seconds or so of the song then you'd get yelled at for "stealing".
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Porfiriato posted:Unless you click through to the tweet or embiggen the photo it's easy to miss the buried lede that in the process they got Doom running on a John Deere. I personally worked on the software for that John Deere product (Gen 4 display). It runs Wind River Linux, and we actually already had Doom running on it as a Hackathon project.
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mlnhd posted:I personally worked on the software for that John Deere product (Gen 4 display). It runs Wind River Linux, and we actually already had Doom running on it as a Hackathon project. VxWorks? That shows up in a lot of energy infrastructure devices as well.
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It was Linux, not VxWorks. Not real-time. It uses OpenGL to display draw the 3D images of the field on the screen. We had privileged access to the platform during development, of course. I haven't watched the talk yet, but I will soon. It will be interesting to see someone break into it from the outside.
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Aix posted:napster had no form of modern day "seeding". when you searched for a song, your results were individual files on individual users drives. youd choose which person to download from and get their file... the little traffic lights usually referred more to the dudes connection speed not being as advertised than the actual files quality It's weird to me that of all the P2P services that died or were made dead over the years there's one specific music related one that somehow still persists
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i remember a few years ago ukrainians were helping american farmers jailbreak their deere tractors, and clearly they know what they're doing there!
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Aix posted:napster had no form of modern day "seeding". when you searched for a song, your results were individual files on individual users drives. youd choose which person to download from and get their file... the little traffic lights usually referred more to the dudes connection speed not being as advertised than the actual files quality Very important in that day because there were some people who would run Napster over friggen 56k. (It was me)
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Aix posted:
I downloaded the Daft Punk song Robot Rock from WinMX and I kinda dug the way the song repeated itself for four minutes straight, I thought it was a ballsy move to go full conceptual artpop like that even if the joke wore out after a few listens. I heard the song on radio years later and was surprised to hear that the real version had a whole chorus I never got to hear because I had been listening for all these years to a fake file that only repeated the first eight bars over and over again 
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spaceblancmange posted:People renaming songs for a laugh is how I discovered Wesley Willis. I know two people who got into Wesley Willis in high school and they both became outsider art people who don't work and build structures in the woods out of trash and play songs on the guitar about local grocery deals No forehead scars though
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Neito posted:Very important in that day because there were some people who would run Napster over friggen 56k.  To this day I have not played any of the Total War games. Why? Well, I spent all night tying up the phone line to download the demo to the first one (it was what, 500mb or something?) over 56k, only for it to crash on launch cause my video card sucked.
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Arrath posted:
my friend once downloaded all of Fullmetal Alchemist over his 56k connection, back in the day when encodes were targeted to put 26 episodes on a 4 gig DVD. So, about eight gigs total. It took him WEEKS.
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Neito posted:my friend once downloaded all of Fullmetal Alchemist over his 56k connection, back in the day when encodes were targeted to put 26 episodes on a 4 gig DVD. So, about eight gigs total. 
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Bargearse posted:I vaguely remember on artist who did this, you'd get the first ten seconds or so of the song then you'd get yelled at for "stealing". In an amazing version of this, Ben Folds recorded half a fake album and released it ahead of the release of Way to Normal. It's a mix of real and fake songs, and some of the fake ones are better than the real ones. I got to see him perform the fake version of Bitch Went Nuts live and it was awesome.
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Aix posted:napster had no form of modern day "seeding". when you searched for a song, your results were individual files on individual users drives. youd choose which person to download from and get their file... the little traffic lights usually referred more to the dudes connection speed not being as advertised than the actual files quality It was also easy to take a look at everthing else that user was sharing, since in theory you had at least some of your musical taste in common with that person. That could be a nice little serendipity; I discovered a couple of bands just poking around the file lists of the people I was leeching from. You could also see who was leeching from you, in real time. On a few occasions I didn't turn the computer off because (for example) someone in Canada was downloading all my Animaniacs albums and it'd be an hour or so before they were done.
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Powered Descent posted:It was also easy to take a look at everthing else that user was sharing, since in theory you had at least some of your musical taste in common with that person. That could be a nice little serendipity; I discovered a couple of bands just poking around the file lists of the people I was leeching from. Look at mr niceguy not trying to gently caress with people, but just enjoy and share stuff.
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in the 90s we only had one phone line so I was rationed like 5 hours/week (also a holdover from our first ISP, which charged by the hour- flat monthly rate dialup internet was, iirc, a shiny new late 90s MSN thing) I remember wanting to see the FMVs from the new Final Fantasy Chronicles PSX collection, so I set one to download on one of those downloader utilities that let you pause and resume It took two weeks to download a ~240px tall 4-minute video, a postage stamp of a thing even on the CRTs of twenty-five years ago- so yah when I started seeing people using flash for video (not long before YouTube hit, and not long after my dialup download days), it positively blew my mind. Of course, now it's, "damnit why does this keep playing in 720p 30fps when it should be 1080/60??"
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Neito posted:my friend once downloaded all of Fullmetal Alchemist over his 56k connection, back in the day when encodes were targeted to put 26 episodes on a 4 gig DVD. So, about eight gigs total. and how much of that was redownloading poo poo that corrupted or PAR files lol
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