Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.

In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you
- yeah....I had to earn by gigabit fiber.
- My grandparents still had dial-up in 2016.
- I had dial up when using the music sharing software napster/limewire but I think it was like 2002. I had moved on to just torrenting albums by 2007. 2007 seems like a meme for late adopters.
- I didn't get Internet until 2011 or so in the home. Then it was dial up for another few years. There was no other options where we lived since it was in the country.
  Edit: we did have a second line because landlines were so cheap
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)
- When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.
  I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL -- I lived out in the boonies).
  Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.
  In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.
  Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.
No one wants a phone without a keyboard. My dad is sticking with his blackberry.
- I genuinely miss typing on a physical phone keyboard. Not because it was faster, but because if I mistyped I could blame myself and not my phone changing the sizes of the touch keys based on predictive word suggestions. Makes me want to yeet my phone which I can‘t do bc it‘s expensive.

I have been deseperately trying to find a techno song from this era made with sounds of Super Mario bros. It used lots of samples from the water stage song. The song's melody didn't sound like a Mario song at all. It was trippy and energetic and almost hypnotic. I loved it so much.

I'm taking my chances and leaving this here. Maybe it rings a bell to someone in here.

You also downloaded 5 offensively funny songs wrongly attributed to Weird Al.

Or that one "System of a Down" Zelda song
- Link! He come to town...
"I'm the Only Gay Eskimo", by Tenacious D (Kevin swears it's them)
Dr. Demento - Windows 95 sucks (Bob Rivers)
and
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders - My Girl's Pussy

Does Limewire still exist? I'm too afraid to check, probably get a virus from just googling it.

It's now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.
- I was thrilled that I cringed my kids by coming up with "rizzmas" and then saddened to find that it, too, is crypto.
- You are now the name of a crypto token.
Soulseek is still around. Nicotine+ is a great client for it. It’s perfect for music and ebooks.
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.
Snapdrop was sold to Limewire recently

Only 8 viruses for 1102 songs?

That's definitely fake

Feels like 8 viruses were standard with any Limewire / Kazaa install! Lol
Yeah, the banner ads on MySpace alone would give you more viruses than that from a single page.
Most the XP machines I had to wipe back then probably had more lines of malware code than OS.

I would give anything to go back to listening to music on limewire. Download times be damned. It was a simpler time.

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.
- Qobuz and Bandcamp
  Also hdtracks
- Refurb IPods with upgraded batteries, Wolfson DAC, and 512GB SSDs are a thing.
- There is a whole cottage industry of replacement iPod parts now. I have seen some pretty cool ones with flash storage and clear cases.
  Unfortunately the Minis and Nanos are a pain in the ass to open.
Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik
- Exactly. If you want to go back to pirating songs, just pirate songs wth.
- nicotine+ is fantastic
- No viruses disguised as music, afaik
  How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.
I would actually use Audio-Galaxy Satellite P2P again to find new music.
Had one of the best artist recommendation algorithms ever.
For your local music library tastes, it would first crossmatch to find other users who had the most similarity to your collection, then recommend you the artists that they had, that you didn't.
Simple and elegant.
As mentioned elsewhere, Nicotine/Soulseek is the modern leader for recommendations.
- I remember using their website to search for songs, select them for download and having their satellite client download them for me by the time i came home.

I still have songs from the early piracy days that were obviously not the artist I was trying to download. I've not identified a couple of them, even to this day.

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.)
Metallicock! 🤟

Why do I miss that program so much?

no vpns, no antivirus software, just downloading pirated music that may or may not take 217846127841 days to download.
- And a 50/50 chance of it being a virus.
It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.
- Even our viruses were simpler. If you just learned not to click on .exe files from Limewire, you basically had the perfect antivirus.
- Reminds me of a time where you could download YouTube videos by finding the link to the .avi file in the HTML source code of the page. Kid version of me felt like such a hacker.
Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.
- Thanks for the rabbit hole.
You miss your life from when the app was popular. Like all nostalgia, we don't miss the product or game or app itself, we miss who we were and how things seemed simpler.
- No... Things literally were simpler back then as information moved a lot slower and the internet was far less privatised, if at all.
  Your chat logs were saved to your own local drive, not a cloud, and you could delete them. Social media was just your web page you made for free on Geocities or Angelfire. Email spam was mostly chain mail. There were no bots whatsoever cluttering the internet. And so on.
  And, FWIW, there were no such things as apps. Just programs. Apps started with the smart phone.
- This frikkin keygen is broken and I can't find the bloody exe I need to use to overwrite the original
I don't. Those were some rough times, when you didn't know whether or not you'd get the actual MP3, or a recording of a Bill Clinton impersonator selling something. These days it's a lot easier to find direct downloads to the exact track you want, in a guaranteed 320Kbps MP3 or even a lossless format like FLAC.
- Does that mean FLAC is the best file format for archiving?
- Yooooo, I had the bill clinton ones too lol

I never wrapped my Limewire. Raw-dogged it the whole time!

Or you tried to download any movie and it was - surprise - Fight Club, again!

Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3

Bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3.exe

I miss Audiogalaxy and its satellite.

I'd wanna see my kazaa wrapped. I used limewire for a while but my large p2p music library was built in the dial up kazaa and emule era.

"You deleted 7 entire TV series unwatched due to not being able to find a single episode that your brain wouldnt let you skip"

Back when it took 12 hours to download a 5MB song.

Or PamAnderson.exe which was indeed a self-contained jpeg, like really.
- PamAnderson.jpeg.exe

Personally just use foobar2000 with my music player and download my music on Bandcamp. I understand some people may find that inconvenient but supporting the artist is important to me.

So, how does the Bandcamp thing work? Can you pay for files that you download and then own?
- Absolutely, and you can download them in many formats. For example, very good quality FLAC files.
- Yep, pretty much a digital music store. You pay money, you get the music file, often mp3 or lossless, your choice.
I wish foobar was on Linux
Lol inconvenient?? Bandcamp's whole selection is like 3% of the music that exists, tops. Try to download a Jay-Z or Eagles album off there. You will surely not be disappointed.
- It's not my only source of music, just the one I prefer to try first.

Limewire, kazaa, emule/edonkey, xdcc bots, usenet... Damn the good old days.

Usenet is still a thing
- yeah, but now that have a retention of more than 100 days. It's not the same anymore.

Use Lidarr with Usenet

Soulseek is more than enough when it comes to music in my experience.
- But with Nicotine+ client.

I remember I had a Slipknot song that had a weird audio glitch you could only hear with headphones on. Like a sudden very loud sucking sound. Scared the shit outta me several times.

[Cross-eyed Bear Award]

You mistyped the lyrics 194 times.

Do they make a wrapped for downloading music from YT and fixing the metadata with Picard?

Those things used to circulate so much. I had a collection of computer virus that came by my computer by somebody's floppy, downloads, etc.

Then, by 2008 I decided to look try one option in an anti-virus software that I didn't know what it did... it erased the entire collection.

System Restore to the rescue!
That said, if you were running Linux even back then, I feel for you. I don't think OS snapshots were a thing yet in 2008.
- Hum... You think I was collecting virus in the system folders?
  And Linux could do backups perfectly well back then. I just didn't have offline backups of the virus, and the online one got erased too. Why would Linux do OS snapshots anyway? It's not something one would need.