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#193943 - 17/12/2003 19:14 Your First Time...
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
No, not THAT first time.

The first time you downloaded an MP3. Can anyone remember what song (or album) it was?

I know not everyone here got into the MP3 craze early, but I thought it'd be interesting to see if anyone can remember what their first MP3 was.

Mine was "Naked Eye" by Luscious Jackson from 1996. I was on IRC and an XDCC bot was offering that song, along with six or seven MP3's. The record had just come out and the single was just getting airplay on the radio stations near my school. It probably took me a half hour to download it (along with WinPlay3 from the same bot) on my dialup modem.

I have to admit that at first I didn't really see the big deal until the players got better (WinPlay3 sucked up all my system's resources to the point where if I ran anything else it would stutter.) Little did I know what it would bring about!
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#193944 - 17/12/2003 19:24 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
The first MP3 I ever heard was Gettin' Jiggy Wit It by Will Smith. Please note, I am not the type of person that would ever actively listen to such a song. It was being played in Winamp 0.7something I think. I still have Winamp 0.92 somewhere (single executable).

I think the first MP3s I made was Fantastic Planet by Failure. I used Easy CD Creator 2 or 3 (I think 2) to make WAVs from the CD. Then I encoded them one by one using blade on a command line. No ID3 tags (were they even invented yet?). I remember I filled a CD-R (2x recording ) with MP3s and played it at work with Winamp. I labeled it "The Sh*t" because that's exactly what it was.... The Sh*t.
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#193945 - 17/12/2003 19:36 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer. Downloaded in 2000.

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#193946 - 17/12/2003 19:47 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
I seem to recall that the first MP3 I ever played wasn't a song at all. It was a sound bite of some kind. And I remember being stumped by the file format, and needing to go hunt for WinPlay3 to play the thing.
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#193947 - 17/12/2003 22:15 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tfabris]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
I think I made an MP3 before ever having downloaded one. Probably in fall 1997. Or late summer. I remember because soon aterwards Duran Duran released a couple of singles on the net in Liquid Audio format and I was searching around for ways to convert the file format or find an MP3 version.

The encoding was done on some lowly computer at work and it took a long (REALLY) long time.

I didn't bother too much with MP3s at all - didn't continue to encode nor collect, until 2001 when I bought the empeg. I still don't play MP3s on my computer, though I keep WinAmp (2.9x of course) installed for preview purposes when checking my latest encodings.

Bruno
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#193948 - 17/12/2003 22:42 Re: Your First Time... [Re: hybrid8]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Me, too. I was working in a hosting facility (note: not for a hosting facility) and discovered that trying to change CDs was a huge pain. Up until that point, I'd never really considered the need for mp3s, though I'd certainly heard of them. But I encoded a few CDs (I think the first was a best-of Fishbone) using Real Jukebox; the first version had just come out. I used it because it would allow me to listen to the CD while it ripped and encoded it. A big plus since it took so long. Then I realized that I could stream music from my home server to work. Then I realized I could get an empeg.
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#193949 - 17/12/2003 22:56 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
Attack
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Registered: 01/03/2002
Posts: 598
Loc: Florida
Here is what I could find in my WhereIsIt Database
Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket 10/1/1996
l3enc 5/1/96

Does anyone remember what the first dos program was that did digital extraction from cdrom drives. Was it l3enc? I want to search for this extraction program in my WhereIsIt db
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#193950 - 17/12/2003 23:09 Re: Your First Time... [Re: Attack]
hybrid8
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Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
I remember a friend doing digital extraction well before I'd ever heard of MP3. Could not have been any later than 1994. And I'm pretty sure it was probably closer to a year before that. I remember that it was definitely not something you'd ever find anyone talking about in casual conversation. Not even geek casual conversation. It was work-related for him though.

Bruno
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#193951 - 17/12/2003 23:18 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
JeffS
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Hmm, I heard about mp3s and pretty much dismissed the concept outright. I couldn't fathom only listening to music from my PC, and I never felt it was right to download them without paying for them. So really the technology never made sense. Well not until a coworker opened up his empeg. Then there was a sudden epiphany and the rest is history. I still haven't downloaded any mp3's except for BuyMusic.com, and even then a handful at that. The first CD I ripped was . . . was . . . hmmm I have no idea, actually.
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#193952 - 17/12/2003 23:57 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
lockuplever
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Registered: 30/01/2002
Posts: 264
Loc: Tucson, AZ
Prince.....1999. I have no idea why that song came to mind when I decided to try downloading an mp3. I'm not sure I've listened to it since then.
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#193953 - 18/12/2003 01:00 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson from a prerelease (i think, i could be wrong) of Antichrist Superstar

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#193954 - 18/12/2003 01:20 Re: Your First Time... [Re: RobotCaleb]
ninti
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Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
My first mp3 was White Town - Your Woman, downloaded by a friend of mine at work from a webpage when we were talking about it. Must have been mid 1998. Thank you Mr Guiyani Narvis, I had no idea at the time it would change my life.

My first rip: Radiohead - Pablo Honey on 12/20/1998 at 1:43pm...I ripped quite a few cds that day, I must have just discovered Audiograbber or something.
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#193955 - 18/12/2003 03:58 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
acurasquirrel_
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 241
A bunch of less than jake songs im guessing 1996ish, the actual band had them for download on the site.
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#193956 - 18/12/2003 05:04 Re: Your First Time... [Re: ninti]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
I had heard a handful of sample mp3s from Amazon - which I basically used to help decide whether I wanted to buy the album - but had never collected mp3s until the empeg came along. Until then I had never even been a fan of CDs, as I far prefer the sound of vinyl through a good system.

Now I have 7000 tracks on my empeg, my home dock is hooked up through my stereo system in the living room, and via ethernet to all the workstations and servers in the house. (hmm thinks - The one thing I may need to do is set something up so they can all be synched)

And now, I accept the sound of an mp3 as fairly good for most purposes, and the handiness of all my music in the car is a winner!
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#193957 - 18/12/2003 05:08 Re: Your First Time... [Re: acurasquirrel_]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
Okay since I kind of started this thread:

The first mp3 i ever made was a rip of Catatonia's album Equally Cursed and Blessed, I used a knocked off copy of AudioGrabber and the Radium-fiddled Fraunhofer codec. Didn't sound too bad, although it took an absolute age to encode on my old P200.
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#193958 - 18/12/2003 07:13 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
edsmiata
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Registered: 18/08/2002
Posts: 544
Loc: New Jersey
dont remember the first song..but definatly the firt time i logged onto the website that started it all! figured i saved $,000s ....dates back to 1999ish
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#193959 - 18/12/2003 07:18 Re: Your First Time... [Re: edsmiata]
srhodes
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Registered: 30/01/2000
Posts: 262
Loc: Derbyshire, UK
My first was Are you Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz. Got it off a newsgroup about 4 years ago now. A good sounding one (even if it is only 128) that is still on my empeg. Every time it comes on I always remember it as my first.
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#193960 - 18/12/2003 09:15 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
Micman2b
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 441
Loc: Central, NC, USA
First Album ever bought: Topographical Oceans - Yes
First Cassette Tape Bought: The Game - Queen
First CD Bought: Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
First Mp3 Song Downloaded: Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
First Mp3 Album Purchased: Blue Green Orange - I Mother Earth

Sean in NC
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#193961 - 18/12/2003 09:20 Re: Your First Time... [Re: Micman2b]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
First Mp3 Album Purchased: Blue Green Orange - I Mother Earth
Is that the one with the new lead singer? I have Dig and Scenery and Fish but kinda stopped paying attention to them once that dude left. Is this album (and other newer ones) as good as the old ones?
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#193962 - 18/12/2003 10:01 Re: Your First Time... [Re: robricc]
Anonymous
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Alright, so what was everyone's first ogg?

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#193963 - 18/12/2003 10:09 Re: Your First Time... [Re: robricc]
Skunk
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Registered: 26/08/2003
Posts: 525
Loc: California
Surf Rider - Lively Ones-Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Hate to say it but I discovered MP3's late 98 while surfing at work.
I stared downloading songs from Audiofind.com which at the time had free downloads.
<He he he>
I remember hooking up my portable Mini disc to the sound cards output and recording a bunch of songs from various artist using NAD as the mp3 player.
My first portable MP3 player was a Rio mp300 (green) which i still have stored away somewhere.
Ahh...the memories.........
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#193964 - 18/12/2003 11:20 Re: Your First Time... [Re: robricc]
Micman2b
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 441
Loc: Central, NC, USA
I have three of the I Mother Earth albums and think that the Blue Green Orange album is a little better than the "Dig" album... The new singer brings a little more to the music, i think.
Sean in NC
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#193965 - 18/12/2003 12:08 Re: Your First Time... [Re: Micman2b]
Skunk
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Registered: 26/08/2003
Posts: 525
Loc: California
I also did not know there was a third album.
If you say it's as good as Dig or better, I'll have to check it out!

(Favorite song from Dig= The Universe In You)
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#193966 - 18/12/2003 12:13 Re: Your First Time... [Re: Attack]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Does anyone remember what the first dos program was that did digital extraction from cdrom drives. Was it l3enc?
L3enc is not a digital extractor. L3enc is the Fraunhofer encoder software. Odds are a different program was used to extract the digital audio, and then it was passed as individual WAV files to the Fraunhofer command-line encoder in your case.

I don't recall there ever being a DOS program that did DAE. At least not a common/popular one. By the time MP3 came around, there was already lots of Windows software to perform DAE for the purpose of audio CD copying (for instance, Adaptec Ez CD Creator did this just fine). What most people did was a two-stage thing, pulling the CD audio tracks with one piece of software, and then encoding with another.
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#193967 - 18/12/2003 13:07 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tfabris]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
I don't recall there ever being a DOS program that did DAE. At least not a common/popular one.

I used a DOS program called CDDA way back, and finding my friend's caddy loading drive was the only one that it worked with. I just searched my drive and I have version 1.91 from Feb '97.

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#193968 - 18/12/2003 13:24 Re: Your First Time... [Re: g_attrill]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
Not .mp3's strictly, but I had a ton of movie sound clips on my Mac Plus (purchased fall of '89). You know, the one with the whopping 512K RAM and external 20MB hard drive the size of a lunchbox.

-Zeke


Edited by Ezekiel (18/12/2003 13:39)
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#193969 - 18/12/2003 13:49 Re: Your First Time... [Re: Ezekiel]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
the one with the whopping 512K RAM and external 20MB hard drive the size of a lunchbox.

Yup, we had three at school, then along came one with a 40 meg drive. I remember my old IT teacher saying 'Wow, how could we possibly fill 40megs it's crazy!'
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#193970 - 18/12/2003 15:33 Re: Your First Time... [Re: g_attrill]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3582
Loc: Columbus, OH
I used a DOS program called CDDA way back
Me too. CDDA and l3enc on a P120 is a slow way to make mp3s.
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#193971 - 18/12/2003 15:56 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
antbankz
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Registered: 11/01/2002
Posts: 25
Loc: SA, Texas
Prodigy - Voodoo People

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#193972 - 18/12/2003 16:05 Re: Your First Time... [Re: tonyc]
elvis
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Registered: 18/01/2002
Posts: 270
Loc: Arizona USA
I don't remeber which 'song' but the day I installed winamp (1.0x) I discovered alt.binaries.music.*... while checking the news groups. I pulled about a gig down (I was working @ an isp at the time)

Most of the songs sucked, but it was a great experience. I could actually LISTEN to music before buying it.
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