• HowShouldIKnow
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    861 year ago

    Hearing a song that you’ve downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn’t skip in that one spot

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      :)

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        What do you mean? Didn’t Freddie sing it that way live? It doesn’t end that way on the studio recording? Did they edit the studio version to match the live renditions?

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      Hearing a song that you’ve downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn’t skip in that one spot

      To this day my brain still jams in neutral when I don’t hear a skip at the end of Guerilla Radio the last time Zach says “now”

    • cornercase
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      201 year 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!

  • @[email protected]
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    571 year 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

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        Pretty sure the biggest victims of this were Rockapella (who apparently did every a cappella song) and Weird Al (who apparently recorded every comedy song).

        Here’s how cool Al Yankovic is though: for years he maintained a list on his website of every comedy song falsely attributed to him and all the actual artists who made them. I don’t think it’s up anymore, there can’t be much need for it these days, but Al was very cool for doing that.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          It wasn’t entirely altruistic on Weird Al’s part; he was also upset about getting associated with comedy songs that had profane lyrics.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Yes. I once downloaded a Stroke9 greatest hits album, and it included the song “Story of a girl”. When it came on, I thought “huh, I didn’t know they did this song. Cool.” Then for more than 10 years I thought it was their song.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      That Zelda song from some Flash video labeled as System of a Down.

      Crawling_(9-11_Remix).mp3 (bonus points if it’s spelled Crawlin’)

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Don’t Worry Be Happy by Bob Marley was the one I remember. It was not by Bob Marley at all. It was by Bobby McFarren and came out years after Marley died.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year 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
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      21 year ago

      Had one that was labeled as “Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra”. Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage

  • @[email protected]
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    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

  • @[email protected]
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    421 year 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
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      121 year ago

      Wait. This rings a bell, was there also an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression on this mp3?

  • Bullet of Reason
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    341 year 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
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      111 year 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
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        81 year 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I had more than a few tracks that had AIM sign in/out door noises in the middle. Always made me laugh

    • @jcgA
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      91 year ago

      But then sometimes you download it and it’s a shitty phone recording from some obscure live session

      • Bullet of Reason
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        21 year 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??

        • @[email protected]
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          That shit had a comeback the last couple of years, it feels really premium, until it doesn’t.

          Just a coincidence

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        11 year ago

        This is soft touch plastic. It is a plastic with rubberized coating which unfortunately starts to melt after some time. When that happens, you can just remove the coating with isopropyl alcohol and paper towel to get just regular shiny plastic.

  • maxmoon
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    241 year ago

    please use a dash between artist and song name you uncivilized person!

      • maxmoon
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        21 year 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

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year 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
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            41 year 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

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          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
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            11 year ago

            slashes in file names is just barbaric, if you use a good and free operating system, too :)

              • maxmoon
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                11 year ago

                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.

                • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐
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                  Long filename (LFN) Limits

                  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.COM command interpreter of the operating system kernel: \ / : * ? " < > |).

                  Edit: Markdown Code format issue?

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          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
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            11 year 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)
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              11 year 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
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                11 year 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.