And then you get that one song that’s had the volume boosted and burst your ear drums.
I still remember the day my dad took this out of his pocket and put earphones in my ears in the bus. That day I understood he’s not that old and still has a young guy living inside him.
Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.
Porn you could watch or a wmv file that opens a website asking for payment?
Porn I could watch. However being prepubescent at the time I was shocked rather than interested.
I had that exact player
Same, but mine was a silverish Gray colour. Mine had 128MB storage.
Must have been nice to afford an mp3 player back then. I bet you unironically Grey Pouponed people too.
I got one of these for like $20 at Sears. They were far from bougie lol
I thought the Grey Poupon reference would have made it pretty clear it was a joke, but whatever.
What? These were only like 30 euro, every kid with some pocket money could get one.
Dongle mp3 players were super cheap, you could get one for basically free in the early aughts.
They’re the lowest tier nugget and companies kept giving them away with their logo on it
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Soulseek was Amazing. What was cool is you could chat with people. I met a “Girl” from Israël and she made me discover a lot of cool rap bands like CunninLynguists. It was fun.
Kazaa was my go-to back in the day.
I was old enough to have used Napster before it was terrible.
Ditto. You could find some weird stuff on there. I have a whole 4GB external SCSI drive sitting somewhere with a bunch of weird demos or bootlegs that I haven’t been able to find since because they were tagged by someone on acid
Ah, acid tagging. Such nostalgia
Not gonna lie: it might’ve been me
mp3(.)com then ARES
Nobody got time for that, everyone was happy listening to Unknown Artist - Unknown track
Nah my metadata was on point with notes and everything.
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
By the time I got an Mp3 player like this, the second generation iPod released soon after. 😬
It’s better than ipad anyway. You just stick it in to load music onto it, you don’t need iTunes or a cable, and it’s nore compact too. I miss those simple devices.
You can still buy 'em on AliExpress for example (I got the RUIZU MP3 player without a screen for 20€). If you are a sound nerd or hifi enthusiast you can get one that connects to a Bluetooth DAC (like the fiio for example) for super sound.
It’s kind of quiet in a way to just push play and knowing exactly what you’ll get (no hiccups, no commercials, no “you maybe’ll like this new song Spotify stuff”…).
I remember way back in the day helping a friend back up their stuff. I never had used an iPod before and plugged theirs in to their computer expecting to be able to just use the file browser to get to it, like common sense would dictate. That’s the day I discovered Apple doesn’t really do common sense.
linkin_park_numb.exe
Hmm why is this song I downloaded only 35KB?
Alien_Ant_Farm-Smooth_Criminal.mp3.exe
Yeah not gonna click that
That filename brings me back.
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
Good times
The good ol’ days
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Ftfy
You don’t know me. I’m not yelling. What is wrong with you people. Hit_me_baby1Mo_time.mp3
