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MP3 to EXE (1999)
- nerflad 2y agoHoly, this is the first place I downloaded the LAME encoder from when I was a pre-teen. Cheers
- forkerenok 2y agoCan't help but reminisce and think how wild those times were! Running a random executable downloaded over plain http/ftp just to play a song :exploding_head:. Surprised there wasn't an MP3 to MS Office macros converter :D
- M95D 2y ago> Surprised there wasn't an MP3 to MS Office macros converter :D No need. Just embed with OLE and write the autoplay macro yourself. Office supported OLE probably since Win311 - remember Object Packager?
- forkerenok 2y agoInteresting, though wouldn't playback require a preinstalled codec in this case?
- M95D 2y agoIt would. Windows had MP3 codec since WMP9, I think. Or, if the recipient doesn't care about security, embed the .exe generated by that program.
- M95D 2y agoIt brings back lots of memories. There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead. Also, from the same site: https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/cooledit.php https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/cooledit.php A program that I remember using back then. It's less than 1 MB, but has most of the features of Audacity today.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead. Pack, or re-encode?
- LarsAlereon 2y agoAs I recall, it was wasn't decompressed, the MP3 data was written into a WAV file with a RIFF header. There were situations where you had a decoder available, but couldn't get your app to recognize that MP3 files were audio.
- dzidol 2y agoPack. WAV doesn't need to store header and raw PCM data (which it usually does though), it's just a container.
- afandian 2y agoCoolEdit Pro was bought by Adobe and became Audition. https://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html https://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium....
- 0xfeba 2y agoWow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.
- adzm 2y agoCool Edit still exists! Though it got bought by Adobe and is now Adobe Audition!
- smartis2812 2y agoI told my Dad this "Linkin-Park_Numb.exe" from Limewire is a common way to listen to MP3's. But no, he insisted it bricked the family PC.
- beAbU 2y agoPretty much a universal 90s and 00s kid exerience that.
- SteveNuts 2y agoI got so good at reinstalling Windows XP and then calling the Microsoft number to re-activate. Most of the time the automated system worked, but sometimes you even had to talk to a human and explain why you need a new key.
- boredtofears 2y agoFCKGW-... the only time I've ever memorized a software license serial key
- MonkeyClub 2y agoSame here for Windows 95 OSR 2! 35296-...
- wmsmith 2y agoI don't know why I know this, but the first five digits of a win95 key were a julian date. Your cd was pressed on the 352nd of 1996, or December 18th.
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- Jimmc414 2y ago...RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
- badlibrarian 2y agoToday we download pirated PDFs off sketchy Russian servers. So, a minor improvement at least.
- theamk 2y agoPretty sure that today's PDFs are infinitely more secure that EXE's in the 1990's. There is a sandbox and no native code execution in PDFs. (That is, unless you use Adobe's PDF reader, which seems to support JS for some weird reason and has an RCE almost every month. But given there are tons of alternatives, you must really not care about security to use it for personal purposes)
- TremendousJudge 2y agoTime to plug SumatraPDF[0] which I love! It's super lightweight and fast. It isn't able to edit the files though. What do you use to edit them? At this point I just use the reader included in Firefox [0] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoSome of us at least hold out for pirated EPUBs.
- kstrauser 2y agoAh, I see you're a man of culture as well.
- meindnoch 2y ago>By the way, the player stub adds about 200 to 250kB to the MP3 file size. Yikes! There's plenty of room for improvement then. An MP3 decoder fits into 15kbyte: https://keyj.emphy.de/minimp3/ https://keyj.emphy.de/minimp3/
- p0w3n3d 2y agowow, most scary thing to do in 1999. Hey I'mma send you my new mp3 using mail! Or wait! I'll just send it in EXE format!
- qwertox 2y agoAh, the 90s, download an exe without concern, all the warez and keygens.
- lvspiff 2y agoMany of times used this then added sub7 or backorifice - ahhhh the good ol days
- arresin 2y agoDid you open and close a friend’s CD tray while on the phone with them?
- ashleyn 2y agoSo you're telling me "MasterOfPuppets.mp3.exe" could've been legit after all....
- anordal 2y agoWhat a 90s thing to do! Shrug! fast forward to the 2020s Is there an app for that? I don't know how to put a shortcut on the a desktop anymore.
- zoezoezoezoe 2y agoI dont even know what a folder is