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How old is your MP3 collection or digital files in general?

post #1 of 10
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I'm trying to slowly clean up my collection of files that are 128 and under (by clean I mean replace with high bitrate files). Then I realized that I started my collection back in the napster days. More than likely in 1999. So I setup a Smart Playist on iTunes filtering out all files over 128 and I was left with over 1000 files that were 128 and under.

I don't have the original date stamps because I've transfered my files to computer after computer in the last 10 years. I'm more than sure that a lot of these files came from those days. They have weird "skip" type noises.

I asked a friend of mine and he said his was even older as he's been digitizing his files since the mid 90s and has downloaded files from IIRC and such as well prior to the advent of peer-to-peer sharing and music download service sites.
post #2 of 10
Mine is about 5 years old ... be re-ripping some CDs lately. Found that I have some ripped with MusicMatch back in the day (!!) into 128 kbps MP3s.

One day I was listening to some music on my iPod Classic and found the music rather muffled so looked at the file info when I got home ... then I decided to see how much music I have to re-rip - I think around 80 CDs need to be redone via EAC into Lame V2.
post #3 of 10
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Before I got into ripping my CDs to my computer, my CD collection got stolen from my car. I now know the true meaning of the expression, "Don't keep all your eggs in one basket." I've slowly built it back up, but there's still some CDs that are lost and forgotten until I remember which ones it were that I owned. I probably shouldn't have thrown away the jewel cases, but I was upset when the insurance company refused to reimburse me for them.
post #4 of 10
1997 here, the year I got the internet (for Ultima Online ) . I got my first few mp3s from joining/participating in the good ol' mp3.com!

Granted I don't have much of these left anymore (except of my own music) but 1997 is the year I jumped into the mp3 bandwagon.
post #5 of 10
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Originally Posted by Squirsier View Post
1997 here, the year I got the internet (for Ultima Online ) . I got my first few mp3s from joining/participating in the good ol' mp3.com!

Granted I don't have much of these left anymore (except of my own music) but 1997 is the year I jumped into the mp3 bandwagon.
I'm 100% sure I have files from 1999. It'd be nice if I still had my massively sized 10gb hard drive from my old computer to confirm this . . . it's probably compressed in a landfill by now.
post #6 of 10
I started all fresh around 2003, when I went from Ogg Vorbis to FLAC.
Sometime in 2004 I converted my then FLAC library to Apple Lossless, and I still have quite a lot of them around.
post #7 of 10
I got in at 2004 (when I got my first laptop), and once I get my new PC built, then I'm going to go all high-bitrate mp3 and FLAC...since a 1.5TB drive is awesome, no?
post #8 of 10
Started in 2004, mostly horrible sounding limewire downloads. Then I found out about torrents and its all been up hill from there.
post #9 of 10
I would have to say sometime around 1999. My first computer was an old 486 with a 300 MB hard drive so my collection was rather small to start. I built my first machine in 2002 and my collection has been ballooning since then, especially recently as I have started to phase out MP3s in favor of FLAC.
post #10 of 10
1997 dance music from Beatforge. Played on, if I remember correctly, .5-something early beta of Winamp. At the time, I thought mp3s would be soon eclipsed by vqf & aac
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