I'm still listening to music I downloaded from Napster. So I stay sending my folks links to sites to covert YouTube to MP3 or MP4.i got wayyyyy too much music downloaded to be paying for all these streaming services. no can do. got two flash drives for my car....one r & b and hip hop..... folders organized to the t. i do use youtube music...the free version to back up all my favorite albums and songs. songs i hear and like i tag them then go to my youtube downloader. that's all i need.
I'm still listening to music I downloaded from Napster. So I stay sending my folks links to sites to covert YouTube to MP3 or MP4.
The music industry execs, back in the 2000's did a study about music consumer spending and found that the average music consumer paid $40 a year for music. So they devised a plan around the mp3 market at the time (napster, limewire) to charge $9.99 monthly for the consumer to access any music they wanted, resulting in the consumer paying $120 per year rather than $40. Once they reached a certain number of subscribers worldwide (500 million subscribers), it would not only equal the amount of revenue generated at the height of the CD era, it would also surpass it.
In that same era at the same time, the picture was painted that people were buying less cd's because of online piracy and record labels were "losing money" so they had to start doing 360 deals with artists to recoup this loss in sales from the decline of cd's.
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I honestly don't get it in 2023. I'm not taking time to download and organize mp3 files at this point. 10 years ago sure but not now. It's relatively cheap considering what you get for a streaming service.
there's some services i'll pay for. cell phone, youtube tv, internet.... music ain't one of them. we use the free versions of toutube music and iheart radio in the house. in my car or while i'm travelling ....flash drives. never have to worry about searching for a radio station or connecting to a internet source.I honestly don't get it in 2023. I'm not taking time to download and organize mp3 files at this point. 10 years ago sure but not now. It's relatively cheap considering what you get for a streaming service.
This and the cost makes it a no brainer. And any music that's not available (which is rare) I just "find it" upload it to my library and it becomes available to stream on all my devices or I can download it to any device if I want. Plus all the music that I downloaded and organized during the piracy days is now uploaded, matched and available at the highest quality available.I honestly don't get it in 2023. I'm not taking time to download and organize mp3 files at this point. 10 years ago sure but not now. It's relatively cheap considering what you get for a streaming service.
Why pay when you can get things for free with just a little knowledge or effort?
DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Blend Compadres, and The Roots YouTube channels are enough music for me.
I watch any movie or TV show at home free as well.
I don't care if it's a dollar a year, why pay when I know how to get it free?
Apple, YouTube music, Amazon, Spotify, Tidal
At or around
$9.99 for one person
$14.99 for up to six people.
Man that shit is a steal to get any song you want. Further more with YouTube music you get YouTube ad free. That shit is a steal to me.
Shit so cheap it's not worth the hassle of trying to get free music anymore.
I've got folders of stuff saved that I forgot I even had.
Zod bless Napster, Kazaa, Bearshare, and the internet as a staff, record label, and a crew. I thank them all collectively for all they've done and do.
I used all those programs and Napster was the GOAT. In late 1999 & early 2000 I searched high and low for a song by Masters of the Ceremony, named SEXY. Back then I was on dial up and had a separate phone line just for dial up internet. Then finally the song showed up on Napster one morning in early 2000. Out of respect I sent a message to the person sharing the file. Asking if they would mind me downloading it from them. They said yes and I happily download the song. After getting the song and playing it I was so happy I sent another message thanking the fellow user. Also, out of curiosity, I asked him where in the world he was located. Only to find out he was in Argentina. I was shocked and amazed. When I told him I was in NYC he was shocked and amazed. At that point I realized just how popular and widespread the P2P program Napster really was at that time. As well as the fact Napster could be used to speak with folks simultaneously all over the globe. Much respect to the creator of Napster for parlaying the free P2P program into a money making platform for buying music legitimately.
That’s cool re: Argentina to NYC! Totally agree re: P2P programs. They seemingly caught on so well. Thank God for programs like AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo / MSN Messenger as chat programs too. I was using them all the time 25 years ago keeping in contact with friends and website visitors internationally. Really adopted it quickly as international texting, and of course doing webcam shows with the ladies. Thankfully did not get catfished, lol. Cause gdamn it was a freak fest at times!
That ICQ, was the best of them messenger programs IMHO. And those Yahoo chat groups were hella fun. I used to be in some of your groups in the late 90s before I ran into you here on BGOL in 2000. Having faster alternative forms of communication was amazing to me. Considering not too long before I was still writing letters. I'll never forget signing up for Net2Phone and getting an Altec Lansing headset in the mail for free. I used it to call my Uncle in Florida to test it out and was amazed. Albeit, I was on dial up so the call was bit choppy. It was the first time I tried a voice over IP service and I was so glad to know I could call family across the country anytime I want at no cost. Back then the phone companies had a strong hold on communications. It was long distance to call someone in Mount Vernon, NY from Bronx, NY. Despite living five minutes walking distance from Mount Vernon.
Gotta love ICQ back then.
Nice callback reference to the groups!
Net2Phone sounds familiar.
Our first dial-up at home in 1997 was Sprint Canada. Found BGOL / Online-Video in the fall of that year.
Crazy re: the long distance parameters. I remember older family racking up heavy phone bills with their landlines. Now alot of people have unlimited international calling and texting.
Crazy how time flies and changes.
Wild.
SiriusXM is enough.Youtube music(free) if I want to hear a specific song.
SiriusXM has a ton of app-only channels that expand far beyond what's available on in-car radios. The issue with Sirius is that you have to game them and threaten to walk on them periodically to get a decent rate. Otherwise they will charge an arm and both legs for the "good" tiers.I never tried SiriusXM. I have a Samsung S7 Edge with a 128mb SD card. I use as an MP3 player named WinAmp and YouTube Pro from https://www.samapkstore.com/ . The YouTube pro has no commercials so I can select something like 90's Dance Hall and let it play for hours. Or which ever of my YouTube playlists. I still save songs I like so I am not beholden to data or WiFi. Remember WinAmp? I'll never forget the first time I realized it had streaming music of all genres from all over the world and streaming videos from all over the world. Now that's a program whose greater functions I deeply miss.
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SiriusXM has a ton of app-only channels that expand far beyond what's available on in-car radios. The issue with Sirius is that you have to game them and threaten to walk on them periodically to get a decent rate. Otherwise they will charge an arm and both legs for the "good" tiers.
SiriusXM has a ton of app-only channels that expand far beyond what's available on in-car radios. The issue with Sirius is that you have to game them and threaten to walk on them periodically to get a decent rate. Otherwise they will charge an arm and both legs for the "good" tiers.
Man !.... I used to get great deals every time they would start talking crazy Id just say...SiriusXM has a ton of app-only channels that expand far beyond what's available on in-car radios. The issue with Sirius is that you have to game them and threaten to walk on them periodically to get a decent rate. Otherwise they will charge an arm and both legs for the "good" tiers.