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Having to manually decompress .MP3->.WAV in the early days of online music piracy just so you could play it at the expensive of most of your HDD space disappear
by qingcharles 1y ago
Having to manually decompress .MP3->.WAV in the early days of online music piracy just so you could play it at the expensive of most of your HDD space disappearing.
- anthk 1y agoIf you have a had a CD burner you didn't keep the WAV files wasting disk space...
- qingcharles 1y agoIn those days though the blank CDs were $20+ each and took two hours to burn and had a high failure rate. I paid my way through college burning discs full of "warez".
- anthk 1y agoWell, in MP3 days (since ~1999) the CD prices plumetted down and they got a much better quality. And yet the disk sizes where't that big (and tons of people still had less than 10GB).