These sorts of programs still exist. I use Nictotine, which is based on Medusa, but basically works like a better version of the old MP3 download programs. Good for finding obscure artists.
You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE
Submitted 11 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Sporkbomber@lemm.ee 11 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Soulseek is basically the same thing too, and still works.
obvs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.
Enzy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Turbo-Charged Connection”
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hot damn! I can listen to the song I want about 2 hours from now!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
And sometimes things you really really didn’t want.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
[deleted]rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Today it’s harder, not more dangerous.
But also everything is darker.
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
More treacherous than LimeWire was? I think the fuck not, that boi was filled with Justin_Bieber_Baby.mp3.exe’s
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
That stuff is so easy to deal with, 1 its fucking obvious its a .exe and second you can just run it in a VM. What, is your PC going to struggle running a VM that only has to run audio or video?
stonedtemplepilot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My PC got AIDS once from Limewire Lite, true story.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Step 1. Download Kazaa Lite Step 2. Use Kazaa Lite to download Kazaa Step 3. Profit
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time…
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Fake system of a down - link song was golden.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Link - he come to town He come to save - the princess Zelda
2deck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Download Worms.exe
I just wanted to play worms
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Liero was an amazing contender
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Duuuude. I just decided to look this up on chatgpt. I had no idea that was NOT system of a down. Sounds exactly like serj lol. I used to crank that shit. Be sure link. He come to town. Come to save! The princess Zelda!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
please don’t “Look things up” on chatgpt, use an actual search engine…
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
haha that’s funny. Sorry to break the news though.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free
Nikelui@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Learning to torrent is what greatly increased my computer literacy when I was a kid.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Or dumb songs with swooshes in them lol
creamlike504@jlai.lu 11 months ago
It was FREE.
But at what cost?
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 11 months ago
EVERYTHING!
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I did download a car
rosco385@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 11 months ago
[deleted]ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Specifically nicotine+.
oeLLph@feddit.org 11 months ago
Allero@lemmy.today 11 months ago
This! Also, I have never found a single incorrect naming there.
Carrot@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Still can brother 🏴☠️
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Set to search only file sizes of >320 and revel in limitless FLACs.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).
It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject
I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.
I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Dude what is this Tetris one. I remember this too.
I also remember some some that was by a dj called dj triangle and it was a super high tempo song with all kinds of songs mixed in. Haven’t found it since those days.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Somewhere in my files I still have the recording of a hoarse male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.
Probably fake but I want to believe.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.
If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.
indomara@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I used to have a demonoid account too! Back then I could just torrent anything without a care…
Now I would need a VPN and a ton of reading to even begin. Sad times.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.
This is literally how I got introduced to several bands I never would have heard otherwise. Missing one track off one album, downloading…this definitely isn’t the right track, but who is this? And now I need to download another 8 albums by that band…
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.
Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.
I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.
unphazed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Know anyone with invites to acid lounge? I let my account lapse for like 5 years, and cannot get back in, bo matter how many attempts at requesting.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
I kinda wanna look up who actually made that “Link, he come to town!” song. Because it sure as hell was not System of a Down. lol
thomcat@midwest.social 11 months ago
Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I’m Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 11 months ago
It was remarkable how much fake Weird Al music there was. Someone maintained a helpful “Not Al” list.
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
YES!!! I just want to take the normies with me.
fox2263@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Am I right in thinking that limewire and kazaa were like proto-BitTorrent ? P2P file sharing
Was Napster the original too?
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Napster was the first dedicated p2p file sharing program IIRC. Peer-to-peer was done before then using DCC (direct client connection) on IRC servers, but it was hardly the same experience. Limewire and other BitTorrent software took off after the music industry killed Napster.
The brand was brought back a while later, and it was legitimate if I recall, but by that time nobody cared. BitTorrent had taken center stage, and iTunes had become a thing. The latter eclipsed BitTorrent (for music) because it was dead nuts reliable, and unlike BitTorrent, using it wouldn’t get your Internet cut off. And it was wired into the iPod ecosystem, so for most people it was a very easy choice.
oeLLph@feddit.org 11 months ago
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Still used today for FLACs
the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was using Soulseek in 2005 just before Boards of Canada put out The Campfire Headphase, and I must have grabbed a fake because the version I heard sounded nothing like them and I didn’t care for it. Many years later I would realize my mistake, and the real thing is my favorite album of theirs, but I still wonder what that fakeout album actually was.
frunch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BoC!!! 🩵🥂
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FUCK, YEAH!!!
coaxil@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!
the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 11 months ago
lots of free viruses too.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
could? Idk bout you but I still can lol
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.
workerONE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Quality: 5 stars but it’s a 128mb MP3
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They even had “Don’t Worry, be Happy” by Bob Marley.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware free, just plain free file sharing network for Windows, Mac and Linux. Our rooms, search engine and search correlation system make it easy for you to find people with similar interests, and make new discoveries!
www.slsknet.org/news/
rmic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Soulseek is very good to grab rare music and other stuff difficult to find on mainstream medias/markets
kadup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s good that Soulseek exists, but it’s way more finicky than LimeWire was and it’s significantly less user friendly
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve literally never had a problem with it.
I downloaded Nicotine, made an account, selected the folder for media, then searched for the movie I wanted and hit download.