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I'm always surprised and intrigued when people recall discovering music through Napster. All I remember is using it as a pirate search engine for songs that I a
by 0898 4y ago
I'm always surprised and intrigued when people recall discovering music through Napster. All I remember is using it as a pirate search engine for songs that I already knew I wanted.
How did Napster work as a music discovery tool? Obviously there was some aspect I was missing out on.
- mikewarot 4y agoBefore it got weird, you could look and see all the music a given person was sharing.... and that's how I found some amazing stuff I'd never heard on the mainstream radio stations. I figured it was the right thing to do to actually buy the music, so I was doing that. Somewhere I've got a few hundred CDs on spindles that I bought retail at full price.
- letitbeirie 4y agoIf you found someone else on, say, your college network, you could download songs from them faster than you could read their titles.
- pas 4y agoDirect Connect (and later DC++) had a few good years for this :)