• floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Before torrenting kicked off, this was one of the only ways you could ever get anything. And it was great!

    • Hatshepsut@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yes! Got a lot of mislabeled songs I ended up really liking and expanded my tastes quite a bit. Fun times

    • h0p3@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      /salute. The old dev of WinMX has continued. Check out Tixati, DarkMX, and Fopnu.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Am I right in thinking that limewire and kazaa were like proto-BitTorrent ? P2P file sharing

    Was Napster the original too?

    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Napster was the first dedicated p2p file sharing program IIRC. Peer-to-peer was done before then using DCC (direct client connection) on IRC servers, but it was hardly the same experience. Limewire and other BitTorrent software took off after the music industry killed Napster.

      The brand was brought back a while later, and it was legitimate if I recall, but by that time nobody cared. BitTorrent had taken center stage, and iTunes had become a thing. The latter eclipsed BitTorrent (for music) because it was dead nuts reliable, and unlike BitTorrent, using it wouldn’t get your Internet cut off. And it was wired into the iPod ecosystem, so for most people it was a very easy choice.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

    If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.

    I used to have a demonoid account and kept my seed ratio high just because that private tracker had the biggest collection of random ass music and movies you couldn’t find anywhere else. Unreleased shit and whatnot.

    • Schleppy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.

      Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.

      I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).

    It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:

    Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject

    I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.

    I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).

    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Somewhere in my files I still have the file of a hoarse, cracked male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.

      Probably fake, but I want to believe.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.