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Buttcoin purse posted:Late '90s? I assume they were to play on your phone or use as ringtones, rather than listen to admiringly on a full blown PC I still had a pager at the point I'm talking about, but I was also bad at internet early on.
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Elwood's music was so loving good. Still is.Star Man posted:You can find a handful of MOD and S3M files for Mega Man fan music on the Mega Man Homepage, which itself is a relic of fandom. That site was my loving jam when I was 8~11.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Late '90s? I assume they were to play on your phone or use as ringtones, rather than listen to admiringly on a full blown PC MIDI was what Everquest used for its music before Luclin came out. The Everquest client did not allow hardware playback unless it was a Soundblaster Live or AWE32 which allows for more sets of instruments and the difference is staggering. Now you can use other MIDI rendering engines so you dont need to use the default Windows Miles software to listen to them. Qeynos theme using the software MIDI renderer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUOfav_6nQ Hardware playback of the same song. Those faded/muted brass in the background... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FqEsPYGSc If I can find the hardware version of the song for the city of Rivervale adds so much percussion and strings its feels great EVIL Gibson has a new favorite as of 06:34 on May 27, 2020 |
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I remember for a very short time .MP2 files were out there for download which I really liked cause my 486 at the time couldn't play .MP3s in winamp, I had to use a DOS program where you had to specify in the command line option what the sampling and bitrate was The audio quality was equivalent to like a 64kbps mono .MP3 but it was better than the midis at least
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Iomega published a CD ripper that would convert your CDs to MP2 files so you could fit an album on a ZIP Disk. e: although it's very possible it was a tool that would only convert WAV files to MP2.
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If you all still aren't using SoulSeek in 2020 for your music acquiring you are missing out.
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EVIL Gibson posted:MIDI was what Everquest used for its music before Luclin came out. Who played EQ with the music on though?
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Booourns posted:I remember for a very short time .MP2 files were out there for download which I really liked cause my 486 at the time couldn't play .MP3s in winamp, I had to use a DOS program where you had to specify in the command line option what the sampling and bitrate was My roomate in college had an ancient (even by late 90's standards) mac and it could play MP3's but thats all it could do, if you backgrounded the player or tried to do anything else, or god forbid something did a big read or write in the background, the playback would grind to a halt. Meanwhile I was over there with my 300mhz PII listening to MP3's in Windows 98 and 360 noscoping fools in CS 1.6
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Who played EQ with the music on though? Me? No voice chat back then, so why not?
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playing music would have distracted me from reading or practicing my sax while i waited for my wizard to regen mana which was about 60% of my original EQ experience
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But without the music being on, how would you ever learn that the most useless area in the game (the island on Erud's Crossing) has the best music? I spent hours very, very slowly levelling there once just to jam on its island vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDndGSJeH1E
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EL BROMANCE posted:Also if you were into electronic music, the MIDs could replicate the original pretty well. Just disable the vocal line on Robert Miles’ Children and you’re good to go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y7EEbrbRRc I'm taking requests I guess Yamahas XG standard could have been amazing if it had gained some more traction before games switched to prerecorded music. It's a bit weird that MIDI hasn't changed for some odd 40 years Also something magical happens when I play canyon.mid after playing a fancy XG midi file, it keeps all the insert effects. The main reason why MIDI sounded lovely in the olden days is that the playback was completely "dry" with no effects to speak of. Maybe a little reverb and chorus if you had a fancy sound card, but the Yamaha and Roland modules can do a ton more effects like distortion, delay loops, filter sweeps and so on. It makes a massive difference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1OHtddIMj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEakwWr2plw
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I listened to music but not the in game stuff. Now I want to hear the audio for Tower of Frozen Shadow which was probably my favorite zone despite nobody ever going there.
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Humphreys posted:If you all still aren't using SoulSeek in 2020 for your music acquiring you are missing out. It's incredibly good. Purestrain 2002: not pretty, but super functional.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Instead I hosed around endlessly on mixman which somehow still exists I guess? https://www.mixman.com I bought one for a couple dollars at a thrift store, but the drivers and software only work up to Windows XP. So, being a
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JnnyThndrs posted:I bought one for a couple dollars at a thrift store, but the drivers and software only work up to Windows XP. So, being a You could presumably pass it through to a WinXP VM in VMWare right?
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Code Jockey posted:You could presumably pass it through to a WinXP VM in VMWare right? I thought of doing exactly that, but I’ve had screwy issues with sound devices + VM’s + USB passthrough in the past, so I just went ahead and used it as an excuse to build a pseudo-retro machine. I’ve been meaning to do it for awhile.
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Pham Nuwen posted:It's incredibly good. Purestrain 2002: not pretty, but super functional. I learnt about it pretty much in 2002 from my Audio Engineering lecturer back in university. And til this day I can find things I cannot find anywhere else. Strangely not a single torrent site had a specific Fear Factory album even til this year and I kinda didn't want to crack the factory seal on my digipak so for years never heard it. 10 seconds after remembering about Soulseek I got to listen to it hah!
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r u ready to WALK posted:Yamahas XG standard could have been amazing if it had gained some more traction before games switched to prerecorded music. I remember the PC version of Final Fantasy VII came with a Yamaha XG software synthesizer because its ported MIDI music used the standard. It came with two varieties. One of them sounded good, though not great, and would drop like half of the instruments when initializing a track so the first note for a number of instruments will just be silent until they're triggered to play another note. Can be easily ignored for the most part, but it was really grating for music that start with several long notes such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvHTlWyxH0 The second variety sounded loving mind-blowing, but either because of my lovely computer or because it was a soft synth (probably both) there was a delay to starting music tracks. Not a problem for casual listening, but the three-second long silence between changing music tracks in a game was really annoying. I do remember enjoying the demo tracks that came with the synth though. One of them had what sounded like samples of high heel footsteps and a door opening and shutting. Playing those with general MIDI just sounded like a dog walking on a piano.
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Humphreys posted:If you all still aren't using SoulSeek in 2020 for your music acquiring you are missing out. I've been scoffed at by the few people I know IRL that are really into music like I am, every single time I mention that I still use SoulSeek. "That still exists? Why are you still using it?" but it is my most reliable source when I want to get some obscure track or album. The stuff that isn't on any streaming service, and you can't even find a torrent for.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I've been scoffed at by the few people I know IRL that are really into music like I am, every single time I mention that I still use SoulSeek. "That still exists? Why are you still using it?" Yep, same here. It's amazing for niche stuff.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I've been scoffed at by the few people I know IRL that are really into music like I am, every single time I mention that I still use SoulSeek. "That still exists? Why are you still using it?" I even ran a Music/Movie trivia night in one of the chat rooms.
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I try to not recommend soulseek to people bc I don't want it to blow up but like... yeah, it's insanely good and I'm astonished it still exists in 2020. Used it briefly in the late 00s, didn't really click for some reason, rediscovered it in ~2015, and ever since then I haven't once had to go digging around for torrents or mediafire links or whatever.
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Pretty good posted:I try to not recommend soulseek to people bc I don't want it to blow up but like... yeah, it's insanely good and I'm astonished it still exists in 2020. Used it briefly in the late 00s, didn't really click for some reason, rediscovered it in ~2015, and ever since then I haven't once had to go digging around for torrents or mediafire links or whatever. Lol, I don't think you getting more people on soulseek would hurt soulseek. I only used it for a few years around 2003, it was really rad, met some really cool people from europe, got a few shout outs on their DJ livestreams, really was a magical time for me online then.
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Yeah I don't think we'll be seeing many more music sharing crackdowns in the era of Spotify. The only thing music labels care about policing now is Youtube. I bet if what.cd had made it a couple more years, it would still be up today.
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I agree. I think they were afraid that most people would just download music, but now most people just pay for spotify or listen to ads. Pirating music is more niche now that there are legal ways to easily consume media.
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wa27 posted:Yeah I don't think we'll be seeing many more music sharing crackdowns in the era of Spotify. The only thing music labels care about policing now is Youtube. It still is up, just under a new name iirc? Still invite only with tons of dumb hoops.
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ishikabibble posted:It still is up, just under a new name iirc? Still invite only with tons of dumb hoops. Oh, I guess I should have assumed that. My music piracy days are long over, so I never bothered to find a successor (again, Spotify).
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All it would take is one litigious enough record company, surely? Everyone slept in emuparadise for ages and then suddenly Nintendo went full SWAT on it a couple of years ago.
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Mak0rz posted:All it would take is one litigious enough record company, surely? BTW Emuparadise is still operational with a browser plugin. All the downloads are still there, just hidden behind the extension.
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ishikabibble posted:It still is up, just under a new name iirc? Still invite only with tons of dumb hoops. Different people I believe, but yes a successor in the same way what.cd succeeded oink when they got busted.
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GutBomb posted:BTW Emuparadise is still operational with a browser plugin. All the downloads are still there, just hidden behind the extension. Someone might consider this  but thank you anyway for pointing this out!
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barbecue at the folks posted:Someone might consider this In a thread where the current topic is the best music piracy service out
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barbecue at the folks posted:Someone might consider this Riot rules now applicable in this thread, loot from big 90s videogame.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I'm gonna loot whatever it takes to run crysis Can you even get an 8800 GTX anymore?
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Humphreys posted:In a thread where the current topic is the best music piracy service out Spotify!
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This explained something I have always wondered about but never enough to actually go and figure out what the hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktIY7VbrUs
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