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back in '95 I decided to not use spotify or apple music or any of that stuff and just store my music locally, never looked back..

• iso1631 4y ago
  In 1995, 4 years before Napster, you decided not to use spotify?
  • intelVISA 4y ago
    a true visionary if I've seen one
  • tpmx 4y ago
    Word marking aside: In '97 I joined this ubergeeky little company for what initially was thought to be a summer job. They had something homebrew they called a jukebox that they had gotten running around '94/'95, consisting of a distributed client/server system where you could queue songs from a shared library of MPEG layer 2 audio files that would be played back on a Sun Sparcstation, iirc. In short: It's not that crazy of a timeline. They were just ~2 years ahead of the curve, by '97 local MP3 playback was mainstream on Windows-based PCs at my university.
  • dusted 4y ago
    Exactly, 1995, there was in fact no spotify, so I simply decided not to use it, granted it was an easy decision since it was not there, but that's beside the point. Thing is, the solution that I did chose to use is still working perfectly today and I see absolutely no better alternative in the likes of spotify.