Some of yall still don't pay for music?
- Thread starter Notorious P.I.M.P.
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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'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.
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Most of my MP3 stuff is just for the car. Have a few current flashdrives (32 and 64GB) ... stuff that I didn't get around to years back that was just saved in folders on the PC or laptop.
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.
Man these assholes just raised the price. They all raised the price but Youtube raised it the highest at $22.99 for the family plan. I'm gonna keep it because my family uses it and $23 is not a lot of money for what you get.
Hopefully they will share the wealth with the artists.
Hopefully they will share the wealth with the artists.
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.
It's $10 ....
It's time to renew my xm radio account, any good deals out there
I miss cds and ripping music from them and putting files on my cheap as 30 song toys r us nextar mp3. I been on Spotify though and f*ci paying for premium what's a 30 second add break gonna hurt?.
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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!
I remember the Napster days...
I had sooooo much music. Then my hard drive crashed !
Now I have 10x's as much and 3X's backups.
I had sooooo much music. Then my hard drive crashed !
Now I have 10x's as much and 3X's backups.
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.
SiriusXM is enough.Youtube music(free) if I want to hear a specific song.
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.
The cell phone and internet and voice over IP threw the brakes on the landline phone companies and their big pimping. I remember getting my first legit cellphone in 1997. I could make international calls way cheaper than I could with a landline. Then I got with Nextel and by some time around 2001 we were able to chirp nationally. That really changed the game since cell phone calls to other states and towns by that time weren't considered long distance. Ma Bell had no choice but to read the writing on the walls and knock it off with all that long distance billing. To see all that happen in less than a decade was impressive.
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.
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.
Bruh, before the pandemic I was getting the bare bones package (it included hiphop/r&b, comedy, sports and pop channels) for $36/ six months paid monthly was $3.76/month after tax......
Then during the pandemic it went up every so often until it was $9.40 ish
And after threatening to leave it's now back down to $6 and some change each month...
But yeah man initially they wanted $35/month plus tax......... for what?! The same 9 funky channels I listen to, nah B
Brah the fee I pay for what I obtain through these Internets is the knowledge of how to get what I want without any financial transactions. Oh and I got that Pandora unlocked as well. Almost forgot about that one since I rarely use it. As I tend to want to listen to specific songs or mixes.
Man !.... I used to get great deals every time they would start talking crazy Id just say...
"It aint that serious" I'm not renewing and they would always make it worth renewing.
I quit messing with them once that aggravating ass Joe Madison died.
He was one of the only reasons I had it in the first place
May he rest in peace.
