03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3
I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc
Same here. I had my iTunes library meticulously organized. Finding mp3s, downloading them, importing them, then updating the metadata.
And now I just use Spotify lol
I still do all this shit. I’ll never switch to those DRM infested subscription services bullshit
I just use a cracked version of Spotify ;)
What I hate most about spotify is that you can’t block artists. It’s always pushing stuff I don’t like and I can’t do anything to stop it
You absolutely can block artists
Does it require a paid sub? Because I never found a way with a free account
No, you can do it under artist profile
Thanks Picard for being an absolute legend at automating all this stuff, i do it on my pc too despite being extremely lazy.
What’s Picard 👀
From MusicBrainz - it can identify the audio fingerprint of music and tag its Metadata appropriately. It never worked for me back in c. 2002 though because my pc was too slow to run the analysis - and I gave up.
My first smartphone had a faster clock speed than that beige XP tower.
Ugh… the time I’ve spent, in general, organizing and categorizing files of various types … Thanks
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.
You Forgot the classic
metallica_nothing_else_matters.mp3.exe
It’s on there but mislabeled as one of the others.
The holy nugget
Good ol’ Kazaa
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.
Those don’t hold a candle to Track05-UnknownArtist
This, but with an iPod and YouTube to mp3 because I am a 2000s zoomer
usually I yt-dlp and ffmpeg YouTube videos to mp3s
FWIW, yt-dlp can do the ffmpeg part for you with the flags
-x --audio-format mp3Thanks
I freaking love FFMPEG
Napster for me, and I downloaded the entire Metallica anthology after Lars Ulrich said what he did.
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.
But then sometimes you download it and it’s a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session
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!
Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.
Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.
Man I’m old.
Haha, same. We had emule und kazaa 😄
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
