• @LesserAbe
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    307 months ago

    I remember when digital audio first became available and downloading a supercut (which we didn’t have a word for then) of Homer Simpson saying “d’oh”. We probably had to wait at least half an hour, and then we didn’t have a program on the computer that could play audio files (or at least not one we could find) so we had to search around and wait even longer to download some shareware program (Goldwave)

    • @PunnyName
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      237 months ago

      Having like 3+ audio players until Winamp came along and rocked that world.

      • @Ggfunk
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        257 months ago

        It really whipped the llamas ass

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        Hm! What was there? Winplay3, mpg123 and…? Was there another before Winamp? Or are you talking about other formats than mp3?

        • @PunnyName
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          17 months ago

          Real Player, I think.

    • @ObsidianZed
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      87 months ago

      Assuming Windows, I think Sound Recorder should have worked. I remember wasting many hours just playing with it by reversing, speeding up, or slowing down my voice that I recorded on the old, beige Bob Barker-like standing microphone.

      • @TrickDacy
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        67 months ago

        It would not have been able to play mp3s or anything but a .wav file.

        • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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          87 months ago

          You kids and your fancy MP3s. In my day we used Real Audio, uphill both ways.

          • @TrickDacy
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            07 months ago

            Yuck… Real player. What about vivo player? Somehow was even worse!

            • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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              27 months ago

              TBF RealAudio typically used a 200:1 compression ratio, which nothing can survive. Tiny files, at least.

              • @TrickDacy
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                07 months ago

                Well, yeah, but it was the player software itself that sucked so bad. It could’ve easily been less bloated but for years they added more and more bloat. Even an old slow computer shouldn’t be struggling hard just to open a damned audio player.

      • @uid0gid0
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        17 months ago

        There was a time when Windows didn’t have a TCP/IP stack so it couldn’t connect to the Internet at all and you had to use a third party program like Trumpet Winsock.

    • @glassware
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      37 months ago

      My first sound file was a supercut of Keiko O’Brien giving birth on Star Trek: The Next Generation, edited to make it sound like an orgasm 😆

    • @Dozzi92
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      27 months ago

      I still use Goldwave to this day, so about 20 years. Been using the free version the entire time. I just edit some file every so often to reset my clicks. I need to just buy it, but for some reason I remember intentionally not buying it, maybe was subscription or something.

      • @LesserAbe
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        17 months ago

        I was surprised to look it up and see it still kicking. I actually paid for it but haven’t used it in probably 15 years

    • Flying Squid
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      -17 months ago

      I miss Audiogalaxy. I got so many BBC radio dramas from there and I love radio drama. I’ve gotten a lot of them I’ve lost over the years back, and a lot of new ones, thanks to the Internet Archive, but it’s a fraction of what I used to have.

      But backing up data back then was way too expensive except on CD-Rs and I have no idea where those CD-Rs went. They’re long gone now.