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.
:)
Oh shiiiiiit son I remember getting in an argument with my cousin about that!!
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
I thought "Bittersweet Symphony" was an Oasis song for years thanks to Limewire.
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')
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)
Had one that was labeled as "Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra". Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage
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
Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.
Man I'm old.
Did you have LimeWire on your computer? Or the family computer?
No dad i didn't you're not blaming me for the viruses nice try
Morpheus, Kazaa, and hands down the best - SoulSeek. It had by far the best users and collections.
SLSK is still alive, well, and the best place for super rare music!
Forgot about Morpheus. And what's this "had" business with slsk?
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
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
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.
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'
please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!
As someone who had one of these, I'm just surprised there's any consistency at all
There is rock hard consistency!
I still use mp3s today (no spotify or similar bullshit) and stick to the name convention: [ARTIST_NAME]-[SONG_NAME].mp3
I've used Spotify since about 2012, and have been considering setting up some *arr instances at some point in the future to remedy that. Music discovery is just so much easier on something like Spotify though.
*arr instances What is an *arr instance?
I still discover music the old way. I listen to it at a friends place or in the radio :D
Sonarr, Radarr, and related projects for, uh. Sailing the high seas. :-)
Mine are always [artist]/[album]/[tracknumber]-[title]
I used to use Ogg, but I'm switching to Opus because it's a superior format.
slashes in file names is just barbaric, if you use a good and free operating system, too :)
Seems to me more like they're just organizing their music collection into directories
Mine is
Artist name - Song name [(Version)] (Year)[(Bitrate)]Version is optional. It's stuff like Radio edit, remastered, extended, etc.
Bitrate is optional as I switched to FLAC and rarely need to use MP3.
The worst one I have is something from Beatles in 32kbps HE-AAC at 22.5kHz SR with name written in Chinese. It is one of the oldest files I have.I find it a little bit weird to put meta data in the file name. Meta data is already there and you can see it on your computer with the tool exiftool (if you're on a Linux system).
But I think you're not on a Linux system, because you would avoid white spaces then :D
Welp, not if you used to rip from YouTube. And the files ripped from Deezer have wrong year most of the time anyway because they used it for file creation date.
And when my music touches my computer it's only because I am backing it up (as I should be doing). The only correct information is on CD rip of "The very best of Louis Armstrong" because I put that in myself using Kid3.
Why should youtube media not have meta data? As soon media data was created, it automatically has meta data. If you create a music file, you get meta data like length, audio bitrate, sample rate, etc.
But okay, you might mean data, which is not related to the file and can be added as meta data.
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.
You Forgot the classic
metallica_nothing_else_matters.mp3.exe
Nobody got time for that, everyone was happy listening to Unknown Artist - Unknown track
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
FWIW, yt-dlp can do the ffmpeg part for you with the flags
-x --audio-format mp3
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.
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
Crazy to put a hard drive in a portable device tbh cause that shit is gonna get shaken up and jostled while spinning
