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.
My fav was downloading a track and then every 10~ish seconds it playing ‘this is Mike Jones’
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.
Then you end up hating the “original” because you associate the downloaded one as the original and then life can never be the same again.
Just load up Winamp and listen to it on your beige plastic speakers and forget the actual version exists.
Ah.
Memories.
I had more than a few tracks that had AIM sign in/out door noises in the middle. Always made me laugh
But then sometimes you download it and it’s a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session
Oh my god YES I completely forgot about that!!
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
Damn it! I swear that was the correct file. Oh well, here I go downloading again! I’m sure it’ll be right this time right??
This, but with an iPod and YouTube to mp3 because I am a 2000s zoomer
usually I yt-dlp and ffmpeg YouTube videos to mp3s
FWIW, yt-dlp can do the ffmpeg part for you with the flags
-x --audio-format mp3Thanks
that weird fish heads song that was misattributed to TMBG
Fish Heads was by Barnes & Barnes, I think the short film was from SNL. Dr. Demento has a cameo in it.
I’m always reminded of the Gourds’ cover of Gin N Juice that was attributed to String Cheese Incident.
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hipsdontlie.mp3
You Forgot the classic
metallica_nothing_else_matters.mp3.exe
It’s on there but mislabeled as one of the others.
iPeanut
darude_sandstorm.mp3
scarlet_fire.mp3
toto_africa.mp3
I feel like this song didn’t make a memetic comeback until like 2010+ and moreso after the cringey Weezer/Toto stuff.
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.
Might have a file system your OS can’t handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.
Those are usually just FATs. The left cap pops off and exposes a USB port. The player itself shows up as a thumb drive.
The memory is corrupt, that’s why it won’t load.
Do you mean volatile or non-volatile memory (ie. is it theoretically possible to recover the data)?
I always have good luck with gparted, testdisk on Linux
I don’t think it even gets assigned a file in /dev.
[26850.924530] usb 2-3.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [26851.024961] usb 2-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10d6, idProduct=10d6, bcdDevice= 1.00 [26851.024976] usb 2-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0This is all that dmesg displays when I connect it to my computer.
trancetrack17.mp3
Remember downloading a couple gigs of MUGEN game in 2008… needing to swap files to fit in characters playable.
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
Hard drive might need replacing
Crazy to put a hard drive in a portable device tbh cause that shit is gonna get shaken up and jostled while spinning
I use mine in my car as well, it still works fine though. My car is from that weird era where cars had Bluetooth connectivity with phones but it doesn’t work well enough to where I can just hop in my car and have it work, so if I’m in a rush and can’t set my phone up I’ll just throw on one of my iPod playlists and I’m all good!
03 track 3.mp3
03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3
please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!
As someone who had one of these, I’m just surprised there’s any consistency at all
There is rock hard consistency!
I still use mp3s today (no spotify or similar bullshit) and stick to the name convention: [ARTIST_NAME]-[SONG_NAME].mp3
Mine is
Artist name - Song name [(Version)] (Year)[(Bitrate)]Version is optional. It’s stuff like Radio edit, remastered, extended, etc.
Bitrate is optional as I switched to FLAC and rarely need to use MP3.
The worst one I have is something from Beatles in 32kbps HE-AAC at 22.5kHz SR with name written in Chinese. It is one of the oldest files I have.I find it a little bit weird to put meta data in the file name. Meta data is already there and you can see it on your computer with the tool exiftool (if you’re on a Linux system).
But I think you’re not on a Linux system, because you would avoid white spaces then :D
Welp, not if you used to rip from YouTube. And the files ripped from Deezer have wrong year most of the time anyway because they used it for file creation date.
And when my music touches my computer it’s only because I am backing it up (as I should be doing). The only correct information is on CD rip of “The very best of Louis Armstrong” because I put that in myself using Kid3.
Why should youtube media not have meta data? As soon media data was created, it automatically has meta data. If you create a music file, you get meta data like length, audio bitrate, sample rate, etc.
But okay, you might mean data, which is not related to the file and can be added as meta data.
I’ve used Spotify since about 2012, and have been considering setting up some *arr instances at some point in the future to remedy that. Music discovery is just so much easier on something like Spotify though.
*arr instances What is an *arr instance?
I still discover music the old way. I listen to it at a friends place or in the radio :D
Sonarr, Radarr, and related projects for, uh. Sailing the high seas. :-)
Mine are always [artist]/[album]/[tracknumber]-[title]
I used to use Ogg, but I’m switching to Opus because it’s a superior format.
slashes in file names is just barbaric, if you use a good and free operating system, too :)
slashes in file names
we call them paths, ᏏᎡᏌᎻ
No, I think those are the Windows people who put / in the file names, because back then Windows wasn’t really restrictive about stupid file names. At least I think it isn’t possible anymore, but can’t confirm, because I don’t use Windows for around 15 years.
The long filename system allows a maximum length of 255 UCS-2 characters including spaces and non-alphanumeric characters (excluding the following characters, which have special meaning within the
COMMAND.COMcommand interpreter of the operating system kernel:\ / : * ? " < > |).Edit: Markdown Code format issue?
Seems to me more like they’re just organizing their music collection into directories
