brendan (ジャンク品)
im “downloaded midis before mp3 files existed” years old
Oct 10 at 2:50amWeb
Show threadVissOct 10
@bnys samesies
Show threadDusk to Don Oct 10

@Viss @bnys

Saaaame

Additionally, I am "never really knew how that one Green Day song ended because the LimeWire user who was hosting it signed off 56k modem" years old

Upload it to my iPad v1 with physical scroll wheel and call it good

Show threaddominicOct 10

@dusk @Viss @bnys wake me up when september

(although I guess that one's post-dialup for most people)

Show threadthe real porksweats reportingOct 10

@bnys

slight variation for me: downloaded midis because it was quicker on the 28.8k

Show thread2xfoOct 10
@bnys
I used to program them into my phone to use as ringtones. There were websites with lists of codes for different tunes
Show threadcwicseolforOct 10
@RnDanger @bnys I would noodle out my own. Wandering around with the Wong Fei-hung theme in there (for my dad) shocked and then delighted some tourists once.
Show threadOliver D. ReithmaierOct 10
@bnys weird flex
Show threadJohn TimaeusOct 10

@bnys

But have you ever tried to find free software to convert ABC to midi?

Show threadgraviousOct 10
@bnys I am "my employer hired a musician to make midi mobile ringtone files" years old
Show threadBaron Von JOct 10
@bnys
I'm older than PG-13 but not old enough to have been able to see them after it was invented.
Show threadjesterchen42Oct 10
@bnys and "onlyodin.mid" is still one of my favourites!
Show threadOct 10
@bnys Midis!? The only thing we had was .mod, and we liked it!
Show threadme·ta·phil, derOct 10

@thilo @bnys as a kid, I bought a commercial CD in a clearance sale full of .mod filed pirated from BBSs all over the world.

as a grumpy soon-old man, i just realized most of those files contained better crafted electronic music than what kids listen to these days.

🗑️

Show threadme·ta·phil, derOct 10
(fun fact: the the ASCII art and scene greetings in the .NFO, .DIZ or credits.txt files turned out to be way more interesting
Show threadBob K Mertz Oct 10

@metaphil

Nothing beat axelf.mod

@thilo @bnys

Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderOct 10

@bnys

Hm. I played 78's, 45's and 33's on the record player. But maybe that doesn't count, as those were so very not portable.

Show threadeskoOct 10
@bnys yes I am classically trained (on the default midi pack Windows 95 had)
Show threadTiTiNoNero Oct 10
@bnys I should still have a bunch of diskettes and even CD-ROMs with midis. Pays that my beloved father was a pianobar synth 1-man-band musician
Show threadKanceptOct 10
@bnys .mods and .trk tracker filez thnx.
Show threadFarah 🖖🏼🧶🏳️‍🌈Oct 10
@bnys One of my favorite things was to find the midi files on Windows and listen to “in the hall of the mountain king” nonstop
Show threadmike805Oct 10
@bnys And before that there was SIDPLAYER.
Show threadcwicseolforOct 10
@bnys Even after MP3, stuck on dialup, midi made it possible to listen to a song the same hour. I was just staring at an old model watch earlier, deprecated but with an ultra high definition screen an inch wide, thinking about how as kids we *fantasized* about being able to change the color or design of a thing at the push of a button (or owning a watch at all.) We used to have to clip images from magazines and mod-podge them to other things for that kind of customization.
Show threadPatricOct 10
@bnys I owned a computer, before the Internet was invented. Not talking about Arpanet though.
Show threadMagnus AhltorpOct 10
@bnys I’m ”wrote shipping midi players before mp3 files existed” years old.
Show threadMad AlexOct 10
@bnys I'm "played MIDI Maze"years old
Show threadzwangseinweisungOct 10
@bnys still listening to "Amiga Hass" MOD File 😁
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=77769
The Mod Archive v4.0b - A distinctive collection of modules - Amiga Hass - amiga_hass.mod (MOD)

Show threadScarlet Phoenix CollectiveOct 10
@bnys I'm "I remember WInMX and other such music downloading services" years old. (Older than that, but thats...yeah well.)
Show threadC.S.StrowbridgeOct 10

@bnys

From BBSes or from the WWW?

Show threadSome Kind Of GarfOct 10
@bnys I was just on the tail end of that, more fair to say I'm "Weird Al wrote every comedy song ever" old.
Show threadPippzOct 10
@bnys I’m I know how to run out of “virtual memory” years old.
Show threadCove67Oct 11
@bnys I’m 8 tracks years old.