- PobrePerformer ( @PobrePerformer@lemmy.pt ) 62•11 months ago
03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3
- Racle ( @Racle@sopuli.xyz ) English50•11 months ago
toto_africa.mp3.exe
- cornercase ( @cornercase@kbin.social ) 15•11 months ago
Why did Toto load up their music with malware? I tried to listen to this just now, but all I got were 23 toolbars in my IE5!
- HowShouldIKnow ( @HowShouldIKnow@lemm.ee ) 48•11 months ago
Hearing a song that you’ve downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn’t skip in that one spot
- Naz ( @Naz@lemmy.one ) 35•11 months ago
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.
:)
- SevenSwell ( @SevenSwell@beehaw.org ) 9•11 months 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.
- oldGregg ( @oldGregg@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Oh shiiiiiit son I remember getting in an argument with my cousin about that!!
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 32•11 months ago
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
- ethanolparty ( @ethanolparty@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ) 7•11 months ago
I thought “Bittersweet Symphony” was an Oasis song for years thanks to Limewire.
- BenVimes ( @BenVimes@lemmy.ca ) 5•11 months ago
teenage_wasteland_the_who.mp3
Different problem, same vibe.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 2•11 months ago
Had one that was labeled as “Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra”. Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage
- BlueSquid0741 ( @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
Rage Against The Machine - DX Theme
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
I had Green Day - Story of a girl
In fact if you go to https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/green_day you will see Story of a Girl listed as #5 of their top 5 songs.
The song is by Nine Days.
- Bouga ( @Bouga@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Hehe : “AC/DC - Born to be wild”
Also “AC/DC - Jailbreak” which I later found was not ACDC… And later found it actually was.
(and yes, ac/dc because why not)
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 31•11 months ago
Those don’t hold a candle to Track05-UnknownArtist
.wma or .mp3 tho?
- Blaubarschmann ( @Blaubarschmann@feddit.de ) 30•11 months ago
But the file names were not as ordered and consistent like this, they were all over the place. Most of them did not even have proper meta data so I had lots of songs by “unknown artist”. Creating playlists within a music player was a mess, you basically had to sort and play songs via the file system
- Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.de ) 2•11 months ago
Meanwhile today we have songs with much saner metadata such as https://m.soundcloud.com/laughing-mantis/x5o-p-ap-4-pzx54-p-7cc-7-eicar
- SevenSwell ( @SevenSwell@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
I used to spend hours editing metadata for my music library on my computer but it was a constant uphill battle. My “various artists” and “unknown album” are still a mess.
- roon ( @roon@lemmy.ml ) English28•11 months ago
I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc
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 ( @CRR@lemm.ee ) 26•11 months 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
- Redhotkurt ( @Redhotkurt@kbin.social ) 7•11 months ago
Wait. This rings a bell, was there also an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression on this mp3?
- rothaine ( @rothaine@beehaw.org ) 21•11 months ago
Hmm why is this song I downloaded only 35KB?
Alien_Ant_Farm-Smooth_Criminal.mp3.exe
Yeah not gonna click that
- Bipta ( @Bipta@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
That filename brings me back.
- outdated_belated ( @outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•11 months ago
Lmao, I remember trying to do that dance and skinning my foot on a jagged floorboard
My friends’ parents were mad but in retrospect, sorta on them for having that janky floor
- Flyingpeakock ( @Flyingpeakock@lemm.ee ) 17•11 months ago
Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.
- TurtleTourParty ( @TurtleTourParty@midwest.social ) English8•11 months ago
Porn you could watch or a wmv file that opens a website asking for payment?
- Flyingpeakock ( @Flyingpeakock@lemm.ee ) 9•11 months ago
Porn I could watch. However being prepubescent at the time I was shocked rather than interested.
- Bullet of Reason ( @bulletofreason@lemmy.ml ) English16•11 months ago
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.
- scops ( @scops@reddthat.com ) 8•11 months ago
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.
- Bullet of Reason ( @bulletofreason@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months ago
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.
- jcg ( @jcg@halubilo.social ) 5•11 months ago
But then sometimes you download it and it’s a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session
- Bullet of Reason ( @bulletofreason@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
Oh my god YES I completely forgot about that!!
- ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•11 months ago
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
- Bullet of Reason ( @bulletofreason@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
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??
- KvasiroftheWoods ( @KvasiroftheWoods@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
My fav was downloading a track and then every 10~ish seconds it playing ‘this is Mike Jones’
- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) 14•11 months ago
please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 9•11 months ago
As someone who had one of these, I’m just surprised there’s any consistency at all
- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
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
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 3•11 months ago
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.
- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
*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
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
Sonarr, Radarr, and related projects for, uh. Sailing the high seas. :-)
- seitanic ( @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
Mine are always [artist]/[album]/[tracknumber]-[title]
I used to use Ogg, but I’m switching to Opus because it’s a superior format.
- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
slashes in file names is just barbaric, if you use a good and free operating system, too :)
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 4•11 months ago
Seems to me more like they’re just organizing their music collection into directories
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•11 months ago
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.- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
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
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•11 months ago
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.
- maxmoon ( @utopify_org@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
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.
- lavadrop ( @lavadrop@lemmy.ml ) 13•11 months ago
Nobody got time for that, everyone was happy listening to Unknown Artist - Unknown track
- Leviathan ( @Leviathan@startrek.website ) 4•11 months ago
Nah my metadata was on point with notes and everything.
- planetaryprotection ( @planetaryprotection@midwest.social ) English2•11 months ago
I used to fill out metadata like it was a hobby. Albums were in organized folders “artist/album/disc no. - track no. . track title.mp3”. Some had release year and composer metadata lol
- TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 13•11 months ago
Limp Bizkit - Nookie (cookie monster version)
- Bullet of Reason ( @bulletofreason@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
I was not expecting to see this here, but here we are. And you bet your ass I’m singing it in my head.
- Somerefriedbeans ( @Somerefriedbeans@lemmy.ca ) 1•11 months ago
This brings me back to Napster days
- ComradeR ( @ComradeR@lemmy.ml ) 12•11 months ago
darude_sandstorm.mp3
- 0x2d ( @0x2d@lemmy.ml ) 3•11 months ago
toto_africa.mp3
- CSharp ( @CSharp@programming.dev ) 2•11 months ago
I feel like this song didn’t make a memetic comeback until like 2010+ and moreso after the cringey Weezer/Toto stuff.
- al177 ( @al177@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
scarlet_fire.mp3