This is during the era before Spotify existed: during the time CD’s were big along with the infancy of iTunes including the first iPods during the early 2000s (third party sites is where users uploaded mp3 files of songs, the full length available for free download) my cousins would often download entire albums.
The same crap generations before did with vinyls (with a wax mold, used to etch the soundtrack onto a wax copy but audio is shit) since buying an official copy from a record store isn’t cheap for some people. I’ve heard “torrented” songs from cassettes (via a tape recorder) when the radio played a song, press record.
Music stores in the 90s would sell CDs of the latest hits from known artists of the time, a friend would buy a copy then rip the hell out of it by “pirating” the entire album onto a blank CD-R. Pirates did the same with concerts of famous singers, placing a tape recorder on the side adjacent of where the singer would perform.
What an odd post. You’re asking a question, then pretending to understand the history.
We didn’t “pirate” by copying CDs bro. We were just copying them like you copy a file. And like we copied cassette tapes and recorded songs off the radio.
“Pirating” as it relates to modern music, (discounting pirate radio) was coined when mass distribution was enabled by the internet.
Also, tape recorders on the sides of the stage weren’t considered pirating. The artists allowed it if it happened. The Grateful Dead popularized this.
You can actually pay for music and not freely download it from internet or simply capture from radio/TV?
why does this sound ai
napster, kazaa, limewire, audiogalaxy are the big ones I remember in the pre-torrent era
hell I remember there were PCs at some kiosk at the mall that random folks had installed Napster on and a bunch of random folks had downloaded random stuff on.
I burned so many audio CDs. Even if it was just to add one single new song, since one song could take like an bour or so to download before we got broadband.
When mp3 cd players became a thing, that was a magical time. Before iPods and before the Creative Nomad, WAY cheaper, and some could even read CD-RWs.
I even sold a few mix CDs, with nicely formatted printouts for the slim jewel cases.
What an era.
I have been to parties (granted not many compared to my peers) around that time period so Im going to say yes.
No way, that’s illegal!
Torrenting isn’t a slang term for pirating, you can legally torrent things it’s just a file transfer protocol
I’m guessing “SilentStriker” Is also you
Yeah, a “torrented” cassette? That’s called bootlegging or ripping, depending on how you recorded it onto the cassette.
Bootlegging is setting the recorder up against the radio and hoping your parents/siblings stayed quiet long enough for you to record the whole song. Or maybe you simply abandoned the idea of getting a clean bootleg, and recorded a mixtape where you added your own commentary/sang along/etc.
Ripping was running the audio signal directly from the radio into a cassette recorder, bypassing the whole “room noise” issue entirely.
Of course, every radio recording (regardless of whether it was bootlegged or ripped) would always have a few seconds of the goddamned DJ talking over the beginning/end of the track.
And CD piracy was a big deal back when consumer-grade CD burners first hit the market. I remember my dad checking CD albums out at the library and using his dedicated burning setup to copy the albums. He built an entire desktop with the express purpose of ripping CDs for himself and his friends. It had one CD drive, and like five or six burner drives right below it. So he could make five or six copies at the same time. He’d keep two copies (one for the house, one for his truck) and then the rest would get passed around to his friends. He even made custom CD labels with printable CD-shaped adhesive stickers, so he could peel the album art off of the page and stick it directly to the CD. He had a template saved that let him print out like four labels at once.
I would say “nice try FBI!”, but I think they have their hands full at the moment.
Sounds like an AI surveillance post.
I had a bunch of c-cassettes where every song started with the radio DJ talking over the intro and ended with the radio DJ or a commercial starting to play over it. Thank god for cd-r, that cassette thing didn’t last too long. It was pretty annoying to wait 40-60minutes for the song you wanted to start playing and often it would be ruined by the radio DJ talking endlessly over it.
I used to record radio songs too. Stupid DJs. They knew they sucked. I don’t think they do that any longer.
The cassette era was fun. Copies all the way down, they were more convenient too, often you could fit two albums in one 90 minutes tape.
A lot of recording from the radio, often late at night when there were less ads, the DJ had less to say and played more obscure stuff.
What? I thought this was a maritime comm.
It is, you can download a boat.
Probably.
Yeah, used to have a double tape deck for recording tapes I’d borrowed.
Then a CD tape deck, samesamebutdifferent.
Also had two VHS linked up in series so go to the video rental place and rent a fillum - press play on one and record on the other.
Taping films off of the TV as well.
Never did the tape off the radio though, was never quick enough
I was super good at recording the local music radio station to a cassette tape to minimize the DJs chatter. My brother would pay me to catch songs for him. Too bad he had awful taste.
Kazaa + Linkin Park + mp3 player = <3
I used to get most of my music from mp3raid as a teenager
