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Napster was awesome. Think at the time you had CDs. You may have some mp3s from your own CDs and those of friends (maybe CDs you borrow from a library). Napster
by quickthrower2 3y ago
Napster was awesome. Think at the time you had CDs. You may have some mp3s from your own CDs and those of friends (maybe CDs you borrow from a library). Napster gave you what streaming is today (almost:
download times were not quick).
- hipsterstal1n 3y agoIt was also a nail-biting experience... you'd have to wait 20, 40, 60 minutes or more for a song to finish downloading to find out whether the mp3 was the right one or a song that someone had renamed. Many times the song had been renamed maliciously from something by a different artist and you'd have to start all over again.
- arcanemachiner 3y agoI'm pretty sure I played song fragments just fine as they downloaded, but I might be remembering that wrong.
- jstarfish 3y agoPretty sure that was a Kazaa feature, not Napster.
- pimlottc 3y agoDownload times varied a lot. Because it was peer-to-peer, it depended on how good your partner's connection was and how close they were to you. If you got lucky and found someone on the same network (or just a really fat uplink), you could milk it by browsing their shared files list and grabbing anything that looked good. It was a nice way to discover new music!
- acosmism 3y agoyou also accidentally downloaded the wrong track just because it was mislabeled. many artists grew from that ex: soulja boy intentionally mislabeled his "crank dat" song as "50 cent in da club" etc