random: Napster/Kazaa/Limewire

Calc 02.08.26	dude #5 is so on point haha. "Link, he come to town, come to SAVE, the princess Zelda!"
Josh D. 02.08.26	Really don't remember anything. I think we downloaded wrongly attributed prank calls more than music.
Aids 02.08.26	We got a letter from our internet provider after my initial napster binge. I got home from school and my dad was furious and was like DID YOU DOWNLOAD ANY OF THESE BANDS and it was the list of all the ppl that complained in the first wave of artists getting mad about file sharing and it turns out it was because i had downloaded one (1) Xzibit song
EyesWideShut 02.08.26	Heather Brooke set an unreachable standard for any GF to match
Asdfp277 02.08.26	im too young to have used any of these smh
Get Low 02.08.26	iirc on Limewire you couldn't download an entire album at once, so I would have to download each individual song on an album, sometimes not from the same uploader, and I would have to adjust the song info on iTunes just right so that the songs would be in the same order as they were on the album. That shit was a pain in the ass.
Josh D. 02.08.26	The majority of music I got from illegal downloading is I would google the artist and album title followed by "winrar" and try different sites in the results until I got a .rar file downloading. They would often take a long time. I'd unzip with winrar, add to iTunes, transfer to iPod. What a time.
unclereich 02.08.26	let me put it this way, i wasn't using limewire for music
Asdfp277 02.08.26	I still have to transfer music files to my iphone using itunes, god it sucks
Asdfp277 02.08.26	were u downloading cars
RVAHC13 02.08.26	My dad still has old music wallets full of the Napster logo CD-R’s that he used to burn mixes on and hand copies out to other officers at the police station he worked at. My sister and I also used to load limewire MP3’s onto our iPods but the sound quality sucked ass on several of them and it gave our home computer STDs so eventually I just started buying used CDs from goodwill and ripping those instead
Trebor. 02.08.26	Having to download individual songs and build the albums from that sucked so hard, but it was free. I hated when the songs would all have different mixing and quality levels. Used to burn those suckers onto CDs
ArsMoriendi 02.08.26	"“Creep” got mislabeled as Nirvana’s “Half The Man I Used To Be”." YES, remember finding it and being like "Nirvana has a song I don't know about????" and then I downloaded it and was like lol this is STP wtf
ArsMoriendi 02.08.26	I remember looking for literally 3 hours to find "Rain" by The Beatles (yes, eventually I found it)
Emim 02.08.26	Having a dl get canceled after an hour because someone called your house was not fun
BAT 02.08.26	i downloaded sure shot by the beastie boys and the mp3 was tagged as a yellowcard song, so randomly some gal at school brought up yellowcard and i said something along the lines of 'oh they sound like beastie boys right' and she got really mad at me. but yeah tryna get off to 40 second porn videos sucked, and i used to use them for apps and occasionally you'd get that one virus zip that'd copy itself 200 times with the names of like every popular software and put it in your share folder. alsoo the one i'm most nostalgic for is winmx, my older brothers used napster to download like limp bizkit eminem and icp buuut they got sued out of commision by the time i got my own pc soo winmx was like the main thing i used, than kazaa lite than limewire for like 3-4 months than just went straight into torrenting
BAT 02.08.26	also definitely had a few sublime songs mistagged as ub40
Josh D. 02.10.26	lol
Christbait 02.10.26	I think The Verve Pipe's "Freshmen" was always mislabeled as a Third Eye Blind song too. I do recall a few instances like that. Good ol' Limewire. I probably destroyed my parents' PC with all the stupid shit I tried to download. Then I discovered BitTornado. Frostwire was also a random spin-off of Limewire that didn't do anything any better.
Josh D. 02.10.26	I remember downloading a few others like Morpheus and BearShare, but they were never as good.
Beardog 02.10.26	Yeah hardest pain was getting actual 320 kbps downloads instead of 128 kbps or lower. Some songs were impossible to find, I also made a whole lot of albums by combining downloaded songs. Did add all things like composer, genre etc. in iTunes cause I'm nerdy like that. I hate how my iTunes records had better credit sections than what you currently find on streaming services. I want to know the actual writers, performers and studio personell!
Asdfp277 02.11.26	as much of a shitshow i imagine it was using those platforms, can't help but to feel nostalgic for the era lol
Josh D. 02.11.26	My favorite perspective with things of the past is to remember that at the time it was peak technology. Whoa, we can just look for songs we want and download it straight to the computer, and then jump through hoops to get it on physical media or a device?! We live in the future. Also, I think most of my usage of the p2p programs predated my use of iTunes. My first mp3 player was definitely not an Apple product.
Asdfp277 02.11.26	to this day, i refuse to listen to music using itunes lol
botb 02.11.26	I have this vivid memory of being sick at school with a fever in like 3rd or 4th grade and attempting to call home to get picked up and getting the dial-up tone (we had dial-up internet when Napster first dropped) because my dad was at home downloading a shitload of songs for hours
Calc 02.11.26	I remember liking medina lake (cuz I'ma badass) and downloading a hilary duff song because one of the brothers in the band was the producer/ "composer" and the track said medina lake on it.