memes

In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you

Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.

Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that... my folks couldn't get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won't lay cable out there)

No one wants a phone without a keyboard. My dad is sticking with his blackberry.

It's now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.

Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.

They put a backdoor in the software to disable it, but the underlying P2P network (gnutella) should technically still work. But you shouldn't even try, there's much more active alternatives.

I was surprised 5 months ago that Limewire has morphed into doing short-term, web-based, file-hosting under the name filetransfer.io

I needed to share a video, larger than attachment size. Searched for 'fileshare online'.

The video successfully hosted for free, and was viewed.

No report on how many viruses the viewer picked up /s.

Or that one "System of a Down" Zelda song

"I'm the Only Gay Eskimo", by Tenacious D (Kevin swears it's them)

You can by opting out of the current machinery of music.

I buy CDs and digital music on Qobuz and Bandcamp, and immediately archive it. Instant high quality lossless FLAC. Upload it to my own server and I can stream it on the go if I want. But for now, I also duplicate the effort by syncing the local files to my smart phone. I have complete and total authority over my music purchases. The simple time is now.

On another note, I’ve been thinking about resurrecting my iPod Classic or possibly my iPod nano. The rectangular yellow one. Loved that thing.

Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik

if you give it to AI you'll get an answer that's also incorrect.

Does it say Weird Al?

I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things "Not Weird Al" so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn't actually Weird Al.

Worth running them through musicbrainz Picard scanner. I think most from that era will have a signature added to he db. (Assuming you've not tried this.)

So, how does the Bandcamp thing work? Can you pay for files that you download and then own?

Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe

Soulseek is more than enough when it comes to music in my experience.