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do you download mp3s?
- Thread starter zoldos
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Not anymore but I do have a couple thousand downloaded and saved on my computer and loaded onto my phone. Leftover from when downloading mp3s was the norm. I keep them on my devices because if I am ever without internet or a cell phone signal I have those as a backup / offline listening. Otherwise I am always on Spotify.
I do have nostalgia for the Limewire days ("I did not have sexual relations", anybody?) but nowadays the only stuff I download is to add to my Spotify Local Files for stuff that isn't available there. And even then it's a hassle and I usually just do a bunch at one time and then wait a few months. I don't miss those days of mp3's too much.
I do stil use an mp3 player at work because I don't want to drain my phone battery for when I need to use it for work.
That being said, I have been looking at the modded IPod Classics and really really want one, for nostalgia and the fact they are cool...
So yes I do still download mp3's
That being said, I have been looking at the modded IPod Classics and really really want one, for nostalgia and the fact they are cool...
So yes I do still download mp3's
Yeah I miss Limewire, though I'm pretty sure I used Frostwire more xD
I always forget about Frostwire, it always felt like the safer, less-insane Limewire.
Surprisingly I think I downloaded more music from Myspace than anywhere else.
How retro! Thats cool though.
What made you choose amazon music over spotify or pandora?
Mainly the interface, and I've found cool stuff on it that was not on other services. Never tried Pandora.
I download and play my music off of a flash drive in my car.
Not anymore, since practically everything I want to listen to is on Spotify. Before music streaming services were a thing though, then I would download music pretty often, usually if it was just a single track I wanted. If there was a whole album I liked then I'd just buy it.
Me too, except on my old smartphone since it has a 64GB SD card,
21,000+ songs now! hehe
Yep. Absolutely..
haha Nice. From where?
Mostly torrents.. but back in the day I used WinMX religiously..
I could never get Limewire to work.. no matter what I tried or did, it never worked..
And I stayed away from Kazaa because I knew other people who used it and their pcs were always full of spam and those stupid tool bars..
I could never get Limewire to work.. no matter what I tried or did, it never worked..
And I stayed away from Kazaa because I knew other people who used it and their pcs were always full of spam and those stupid tool bars..
Me too, except on my old smartphone since it has a 64GB SD card,
21,000+ songs now! hehe
I pretty much have everything Chino Moreno has done from the Deftones, Team Sleep, and Crosses.
I have thousands of Mp3s spanning all the genres that I listen too, but I am not gonna lie, I am afraid to divulge my sources as to where I go for downloads, simply because one of the sites I used to go to, is ALWAYS changing its domains, so I am sure that they get a lot of heat.. or they just might be a honeypot put up by the feds, and they are trying to look legit.. either way, I don't go to that site anymore..
That said though, back in the day, I used to rip the SHOUTCAST streams off of WInamp, of the stations I listened too..
Which is a good way to get Mp3s.. but not a great way, because although you do get the song, you also get the DJ announcements and also, the songs ripped from the stream will have the fade in/out of another song, in it and so, unless you have the songs in the exact order of the playlist, you ripped, it will get annoying very quickly..
For example.. imagine that you are listening your Rock playlist that you ripped off of SHOUTCAST..
Fade Out: Linkin Park - Numb (Fade In: Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: POD - Youth of the Nation)
Fade Out: POD - Youth of the Nation (whole song w/ fade out)
But your playlist is on shuffle so you get..
Fade Out: Linkin Park - Numb (Fade In: Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Next song: (starts abruptly because the fade in is at the end of a different song) Metallica - The Unforgiven II (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: Jem - 24)
Next song: (starts abruptly because the fade in is at the end of a different song) Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat)
Do you see how annoying that can be? lol
Anyway this post has reminded me that I needed to redownload a lot of songs I acquired this way.. lol
That said though, back in the day, I used to rip the SHOUTCAST streams off of WInamp, of the stations I listened too..
Which is a good way to get Mp3s.. but not a great way, because although you do get the song, you also get the DJ announcements and also, the songs ripped from the stream will have the fade in/out of another song, in it and so, unless you have the songs in the exact order of the playlist, you ripped, it will get annoying very quickly..
For example.. imagine that you are listening your Rock playlist that you ripped off of SHOUTCAST..
Fade Out: Linkin Park - Numb (Fade In: Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: POD - Youth of the Nation)
Fade Out: POD - Youth of the Nation (whole song w/ fade out)
But your playlist is on shuffle so you get..
Fade Out: Linkin Park - Numb (Fade In: Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Next song: (starts abruptly because the fade in is at the end of a different song) Metallica - The Unforgiven II (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: Jem - 24)
Next song: (starts abruptly because the fade in is at the end of a different song) Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (whole song w/ fade out) (Fade In: Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat)
Do you see how annoying that can be? lol
Anyway this post has reminded me that I needed to redownload a lot of songs I acquired this way.. lol
I guess since I pay for it it does that automatically?
