what and how did you download your first mp3?

For me it was something like 14years ago, with a 28.8kbs modem from an anonymous webpage... It took me 2 weeks (at small parts per day) using the blessed getright to download the mp3 of FFVI's Dancing Mad, the huge 20 mins song of the final incarnation of kefka

what about you?

 

Piffle, newbie have you forgotten MP1? Was the digital format used on the underloved Digital Compact Cassette.

Not sure about downloading, but I remember on a low end pentium machine it taking a long long time to encode an MP3, I remember a CD took about 12 hours if I was lucky.

 

Napster - AC/DC - Big Balls or Back In Black, don't remember. 1998, I think.

Before that, I think we shared some songs in WAV through LAN or CD.

 

oh you are right! it WAS an MP2!

and i was playing it with strange a program with a gray and black/green background... it was really lightweight and promised to play mp3 and mp2 on 486dx too

 

computer gaming world started to put mp3s on their CDs filled with demos. That's how I got my first mp3 song.

 

I was playing MOD's actually. Surprisingly good for the time. Anyway, the first MP3 probably via Napster or via IRC.

 

Wide Open Space by Mansun, sometime back in '99 using Kazaa on 56k.

I also downloaded Grand theft auto 3 on kazaa using 56k, it took two weeks and worked perfectly.

 

Earliest music download would've been a .mid or something like that from a BBS or Compuserve or whatever. Later MP3s through Hotline or mp3.com, before Napster at any rate. I never really used Napster at home, my connection was too slow.

 

Wowwww, this thread is becoming like a homage to warez, lol!!!!!

 

Just goes to show how desperate a 15 year old can be to play a game when he can't afford it.

 

I think that must have been Rednex with Spirit of the hawk in 1999 or so - from Napster when it still existed the interesting way. I was 10 back then, so its more or less justified

 

First MP3 I ever downloaded was probably through WinMX or whatever its called.

I don't remember what it was. One of the first batches of things I downloaded from there was a prank phone call called "Poop in my car"

 

1999 green day - when I come around. (from a website)

I was encoding CDs since 98 though I think

 

36k modem on my Amiga using the amiga version of Napster, used to take over an hour to download a song, as I was lucky to hit the maximum speed of the 36k modem at the time - which would have been around 1999 I would guess.
My Amiga's CPU wasn't upto playing MP3's though, so I'd convert to AIFF. I would also record them onto Minidisc for playing on the go. Funny how genuinly old fashioned that all seems now!

As for the first song i downloaded, I have no idea at all.

 

Funny how Japanese convience stores still seem to all sell Minidiscs, Tapes and Videotapes next to the CD-Rs and DVD-Rs

 

1998 from some strange website via a 56k modem.

The song was Michael Jackson - Earth Song, I have no shame .

 

I didn't have a computer until 2002 or 2003 so the first MP3's I ever had were from a friends house burned to a CDR. When I did have a computer, which was a Pentium 1 from 1995 or something, it didn't have internet for a long long time. I think it went bye bye around 98-99. So the only time I got to mess with a computer was at friends houses. =/

I think the first MP3's I did download were from Soulseek, ftps and some website.

 

Yeah! WinPlay!!! I was listing to my first mp3 with that software on my AMD 133Mhz machine... Guns "N Roses - November Rain.

Encoding took hours with the Xing software I used back then, I'm sometimes still amazed how easy and fast it goes now. :lol: