• HowShouldIKnow@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

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      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.

      :)

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        1 year ago

        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.

  • Bullet of Reason@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      But then sometimes you download it and it’s a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session

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    1 year ago

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

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      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

  • CRR@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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

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    Hmm why is this song I downloaded only 35KB?

    Alien_Ant_Farm-Smooth_Criminal.mp3.exe

    Yeah not gonna click that

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    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

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    1 year ago

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