The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever

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• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember getting my first MP3s at a LAN party and it was revolutionary. You could just copy over music to your computer from other computers and they had quite the selection? Awesome! I totally filled my (tiny) hard disk to the brim and then listened the shit out of them with Winamp. I learned a while later that you could also rip CDs and that was also revolutionary. Then Napster, the first Discmens with MP3 support and so on - MP3s are awesome!

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  • monica_b1998@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and all the great Winamp skins…

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It really whips the llama’s ass.

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• Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice……but the whole thing is written like an AI did it. I hate the way they phrase everything like Billy Mays “but wait there’s more!”

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. Although, I must add:

    ^Billy Mays tha goat. ToT^

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  • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is most likely written by an AI

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• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

  Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

  Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

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  • monica_b1998@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    interesting theory. i’m afraid we’ll never find out if it’s true

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dude, hopping on college wifi and stealing classmates music from iTunes shares was hilarious back then. my campus got sued over limewire BS and students would keep ignoring it and downloading, then get pissy when legal had them banned from campus wifi. The rest of us just abused fucking iTunes shares, lol.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tom’s Diner by: Suzanne Vega was the first MP3 song.

  The acapella version, not the bangin’ Pop dance version.

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