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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. How big was their phone bill?  Or did their ISP have a toll-free number?
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I got in trouble for downloading a real video version of the duke nukem time to kill (ps1 game) trailer while my parents were away, tying up the phone lines for four hours or so
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i co-ordinated with someone in another state to so each of us would download different episodes of Lexx off kazaa and then trade cds later, thus cutting the download times in half!! most of them had german subtitles
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barbecue at the folks 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 think that Daft Punk album is known for being incredibly repetitive and uninspired so maybe they were just making it even better?
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future ghost posted:I recall a band's new album that was uploaded by someone to kazaa and all of the vocals were replaced by musically appropriate cat noises if you mean one that starts with S, it still goes hard. just never got popular enough to attract a lot of heat I guess
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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. this is the one thing i miss the most. you could also send messages - often times people would see me downloading something and send recommendations, i really found some gooe music through this. you could also message people downloading from you and tell em their taste in music sucks they really had the authentic record store experience going digital back then
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Crime on a Dime posted:if you mean one that starts with S, it still goes hard. just never got popular enough to attract a lot of heat I guess I came here to post that. But these days files are guarded by weirdo 'collectors' that run bots that will check if you are sharing anything and not give you the file you want until X, Y and Z parameters are in order. Some will only TRADE for things they want or you will be blocked from their little cohort of losers.
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ah, libertarianism
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I discovered comedy groups like Arrogant Worms and Three Dead Trolls thanks to Napster, because in the 90s every comedy song was a Weird Al song.
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Collateral Damage posted:I discovered comedy groups like Arrogant Worms and Three Dead Trolls thanks to Napster, because in the 90s every comedy song was a Weird Al song. The Website is Down
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Aix posted:this is the one thing i miss the most. you could also send messages - often times people would see me downloading something and send recommendations, i really found some gooe music through this. Humphreys posted:But these days files are guarded by weirdo 'collectors' that run bots that will check if you are sharing anything and not give you the file you want until X, Y and Z parameters are in order.
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Aug 17, 2022 11:00
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Winty posted:sending messages is still a feature of the one they're talking about, it doesn't happen often but once in a blue moon someone will message you to check out this guy's music under his other alias too If it isn't really rare, why aren't you just torrenting it instead?
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maybe i just don't know where to look but i can never find torrents of anything of even medium popularity, only massive hit albums. plus the quality / bitrate is always a crapshoot, this program indexes the bitrate in the search results. finally i'm just used to doing it this way now
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Humphreys posted:I came here to post that. But these days files are guarded by weirdo 'collectors' that run bots that will check if you are sharing anything and not give you the file you want until X, Y and Z parameters are in order. Some will only TRADE for things they want or you will be blocked from their little cohort of losers. But it's also the only place you can find poo poo like Jim Steinman's weird little Pandora's Box experiment. Still can't find a clean rip of the Buddy Scott Trio's "You Win" though
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Yeah torrenting music was never really viable. The real way to download music was looking for blogspots with links to mediafire uploads. This no longer works because google no longer serves websites made by humans
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Code Jockey posted:and how much of that was redownloading poo poo that corrupted or PAR files lol It was a torrent, fortunately, so not much.
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Neito posted:It was a torrent, fortunately, so not much. Independent of their mostly-illegal uses, torrents as a file distribution tech are kind of neat.
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Computer viking posted:Independent of their mostly-illegal uses, torrents as a file distribution tech are kind of neat. It's one of the few cases where the ven diagram of "intersting computer problems to solve" and "problems humans need solved in reality" match up.
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goblin week posted:Yeah torrenting music was never really viable. The real way to download music was looking for blogspots with links to mediafire uploads. 
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goblin week posted:Yeah torrenting music was never really viable. The real way to download music was looking for blogspots with links to mediafire uploads. Btw Soulseek is still alive and very much active. It's a great place to find even obscure stuff, because a lot of the people who still use it are mega hoarders.
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goblin week posted:Yeah torrenting music was never really viable. The real way to download music was looking for blogspots with links to mediafire uploads. Torrents and music are cool for larger releases. A guy I knew back in high school would get into a band, listen to a bit on... Not sure if YouTube was around then, actually... And then he'd just search for "goblin week discography" on the torrent site du jour (probably Bay). I once tried to find out more about Kino after their song on the GTA IV radio, but Kino also means cinema in German so results are mixed.
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goblin week posted:Yeah torrenting music was never really viable. The real way to download music was looking for blogspots with links to mediafire uploads. It's viable if you manage to get on one of the private trackers that descended from Oink/What.CD. I managed to get onto two of them over the years and it is the best way to find and get music. Meticulously curated, available at the best qualities, very easy to search, the current one I'm on has 1.2 million unique releases. The public trackers are absolute garbage though.
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Hellequin posted:It's viable if you manage to get on one of the private trackers that descended from Oink/What.CD. I managed to get onto two of them over the years and it is the best way to find and get music. Meticulously curated, available at the best qualities, very easy to search, the current one I'm on has 1.2 million unique releases. poo poo that reminds me I have to get on for an interview after What.CD shut down
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forest spirit posted: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 They sound rad tbh
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F4rt5 posted:poo poo that reminds me I have to get on for an interview after What.CD shut down hey at least you got an interview I've been high and dry for years
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Hellequin posted:It's viable if you manage to get on one of the private trackers that descended from Oink/What.CD. I managed to get onto two of them over the years and it is the best way to find and get music. Meticulously curated, available at the best qualities, very easy to search, the current one I'm on has 1.2 million unique releases. If I were to pirate music, I'd just use something like SoulSeek and then use Lidarr to retag and reorganize everything.
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it's not a competition, because they are both excellent ways of doing it, but i used to have a lot of trouble keeping a good ratio on what cd when i had an account. trying to download something was like asking for time off: encumbered with guilt that you're cutting into your savings. also, you can find recent episodes of shows on soulseek. a good third party client is nicotine+ if you're interested in trying it
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Code Jockey posted:and how much of that was redownloading poo poo that corrupted or PAR files lol
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:They sound rad tbh recently I've been to their bar, hidden in the woods that's on a secret trail off of one of the cities' walking paths. beer was pulled from a keg found in a lake. one of them made squid quiche that had been cold for hours. it was one of the better parties of summer 2022
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Your friends might be goblins. That's rad.
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Someone posted about the TV lights that people had back in the 70s/80s, and while moving this weekend I found that one of the pieces in our guest bath is not a cute little Asian boat, but one of these things. I'll get some pics once I get it back out of the box.
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Winty posted:it's not a competition, because they are both excellent ways of doing it, but i used to have a lot of trouble keeping a good ratio on what cd when i had an account. trying to download something was like asking for time off: encumbered with guilt that you're cutting into your savings. also, you can find recent episodes of shows on soulseek. a good third party client is nicotine+ if you're interested in trying it I just kicked over to Nic from the official client and it's night-and-day.
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oh awesome, i'm really glad you like it! yeah it's better in pretty much every way, lol
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Winty posted:oh awesome, i'm really glad you like it! yeah it's better in pretty much every way, lol I like the interests feature, if only for random old school browsing.
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Apparently serious attempts at designing spacesuits: by Republic Aviation (1960):  by Grumman (1962): 
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They're so cute!
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Trabant posted:Apparently serious attempts at designing spacesuits: I had an old obsolete middle school science textbook prominently featuring the bottom one. I love that design so much, it's like a little yurt that you wear.
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Trabant posted:Apparently serious attempts at designing spacesuits: A 1960s' toy I owned  Major Matt Mason in his Moon Suit
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lol arms are not supposed to contort like that.
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