Did you download music before MP3?

[bandXtrb]

For fun, I downloaded a few WAV files (from AOL) that were about 3-4 megs circa 1995

Yes, they sounded horrible, these were compressed down to 1/10 of what they should be. But it was intersting at the time to have whole song on my hard disk.

 

[zimu]

i had real audio stuff as well, i also know what your'e talkign about with the mega low quality wav files!!

 

[Phunktion]

Negative.. except maybe aiff files and midis..

 

[Redwingsguy]

yes midis and real audio

 

[Noriaki]

Not really....I didn't download much of anything on my 56k.

I had mp3s well before I got broadband and started downloading.

 

[toph99]

yes, crappy quality .wavs and midis around 95 or so

 

[bandXtrb]

Now i remember listenign to *.VOC files on my 386, I didn't even have 16bit sound card, I had an 8bit PC speaker with a Soundblaster emulator, ouch

 

[Ultima]

do mods count?

 

[webnewland]

takes too long, never had the time

 

[SSP]

Yep.

 

[geno]

Nah, I got into MP3s right around when they started getting popular around the web (before anyone else really caught on pretty much). Back when I had like 10 MP3s and it was pretty cool just to get free singles

 

[chiwawa626]

Yeah, duh Mp2's
not realy, i had a few midis though

 

[Sacotool]

I had a few .mod files on my old 386 hehe, at the time I thought they sounded decent coming out of my pc speaker, this was back in 1992.

 

[erub]

i had some real audio stuff and a few wavs, in 95 also

 

[monto]

i didn't know what music was before mp3s

 

[MWink]

I did and still do download MIDIs all the time.

 

[GhettoFob]

I dled the whole Bone Thugs album in real audio format, I thought that was so cool. And I had a whole bunch of midis too. I miss the good ol' days.

 

[dc]

midi's still rock!

 

[Swag1138]

I had a stack of MIDI floppies.
Also a bunch of .mods

so yeah, I downloaded music before MP3s

 

[PliotronX]

Yep, had a collection of 11Khz Mono 4 or 8-bit files

 

[Nekro]

I used to download MIDI of game music, also used Real Player

 

[kami]

<< yes, crappy quality .wavs and midis around 95 or so >>


i could be wrong, but weren't you like 9 or 10 then? i thought you were one of the youngin's here.

i used to get a lot of midi's before mp3