LimeWire.exe

03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3

Hearing a song that you've downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn't skip in that one spot

toto_africa.mp3.exe

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

Those don't hold a candle to Track05-UnknownArtist

I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc

But the file names were not as ordered and consistent like this, they were all over the place. Most of them did not even have proper meta data so I had lots of songs by "unknown artist". Creating playlists within a music player was a mess, you basically had to sort and play songs via the file system

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

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.

Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.

I had that EXACT same red one. Man that rubber got really nasty feeling once a year in

darude_sandstorm.mp3

please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!

Nobody got time for that, everyone was happy listening to Unknown Artist - Unknown track

Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.

Man I'm old.

You Forgot the classic

metallica_nothing_else_matters.mp3.exe

03 track 3.mp3

Hmm why is this song I downloaded only 35KB?

Alien_Ant_Farm-Smooth_Criminal.mp3.exe

Yeah not gonna click that

Limp Bizkit - Nookie (cookie monster version)

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

you forgot about sex_pistols_never_mind_the_bollocks.exe

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”

linkin_park_numb.exe

trancetrack17.mp3

You could use LimeWire to get LimeWire Pro. Good times.

I still have mine. Found it last weekend in my parents' attic. Nostalgia ultima!

I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did however go to such and such website…

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I had some little grey box of an mp3 player in the late 90s that held like roughly one or two smallish albums. I remember one day finding a recording of my gym teacher trying to figure out how it worked for like five minutes after unknowingly pushing the record button.

I feel old

I feel so HECKING old

I had one of these in college. It was a good little player. Reasonably inexpensive. One end was a cap that came off and was a full size USB, so that you didn't need to carry around cables.

I'm not going to tell you how long it took me to figure out that the hold switch made the storage mount as read only when plugged into a computer.

Mine was full of power metal. I don't know if it's just my brain deleting all the bad stuff, but it feels these times were so much better idk ..

I remember using Napster and playing all these songs on Winamp on my computer in 1998. Amazing how all these years later music access is more restrictive, not easier.

The other day while starting pack we came across my old iPod mini, with the blue aluminum shell. Guess who's getting a flash drive and new firmware!?

Arm the nugget!

I have one almost exactly like that (different brand, but looks exactly the same besides that). Would anyone know how to recover data from it (some text files, and potentially some recordings made with the built-in microphone)? Whenever I plug it into a computer the loading screen comes up on the player but nothing happens (computer can't mount it), and turning it on also just gets me to the loading screen where it stays without moving forward.

loreen_euphoria (1).mp3

My favorite thing to download from Limewire was Limewire Pro.

The image tells me the owner was not American...

I'd download files that were called like cool.house.music2003.mp3. Found some legitimately good tracks that I could never identify that way.

The holy nugget

Oh yeah this definitely sounds like Wierd Al

heading out after school to the internet café to play Counter Strike with your friends near the mall.

hipsdontlie.mp3

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

LimeWire was terrible. Quickly switched to Soulseek and have been using it ever since. Actually Nicotine+, but that's besides the point.

Don'twaste, yourtime, onme, yeralready, the voice inside maiyead

florida_whistle.mp3

By the time I got an Mp3 player like this, the second generation iPod released soon after. 😬

Audio Satellite was the best.

The good ol' days

Good ol’ Kazaa

Napster for me, and I downloaded the entire Metallica anthology after Lars Ulrich said what he did.

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Remember downloading a couple gigs of MUGEN game in 2008... needing to swap files to fit in characters playable.

I had that exact player

I went full circle. Downloaded from Napster back in the day, and now I subscribe to their streaming service. They apparently pay artists better than some of the other streamers, too.

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!

I swear I had this exact model in blue, before going back to SanDisk

vertical_horizon_everything_you_want.mp3

There is a song that I can no longer access on an old iPod. It was that song "Better Off Alone" by Alice DJ, but it had like extra songs added into it kinda like a mashup of a few other songs. How I WISH I could go back and download it on Limewire. :(

And then you get that one song that's had the volume boosted and burst your ear drums.

iPeanut

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that weird fish heads song that was misattributed to TMBG

You don't know me. I'm not yelling. What is wrong with you people. Hit_me_baby1Mo_time.mp3

Good times

I still remember the day my dad took this out of his pocket and put earphones in my ears in the bus. That day I understood he's not that old and still has a young guy living inside him.

mp3(.)com then ARES

Now, I use YMusic [Andriod].

Straight from YT server.

Enlighten me of my ways, if you have anything better!

Audiogalaxy for me.

Must have been nice to afford an mp3 player back then. I bet you unironically Grey Pouponed people too.