kaini Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 (edited) http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/28/archi...-home-reco.html Quote Joshuah Bearman alerted me to David Dixon's amazing audio archive website, which has links to audio files that people recorded at home and unwittingly sent to Napster. Quote This was right around the time that Napster was just beginning to penetrate into the average computer user's lives. At the same time, an audio utility program called MusicMatch Jukebox was also being widely used, since it was often pre-installed on off-the-shelf PC's. MMJ allowed you, among other things, to make recordings using the cheap microphone included with the PC, and save the file in mp3 format. If you didn't give the audio file a name, it assigned a default name "mic in track" followed by a number. Now if you were also running Napster, and you were careless enough to be sharing everything on your computer (which *many* were), then anyone also running Napster could just do a search for "mic in track" and find and download these personal recordings, usually without your knowledge. I am that guy. I've amassed many, many hours of these recordings, which provide endless voyeuristic entertainment. Typical recordings were of people singing, rapping, or playing along with the radio (often badly), kids practicing their school book reports, audio love letters, kids being silly, and so forth. One of my finds was a 14-minute-long recording of a guy praying very fervently and emotionally, even lapsing into glossolalia. I've posted many of my favorites on my webpage, for free. http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/...-voyeurism.html samples themselves at http://stark-effect.com/mit.html i seem to remember snares talking about searching on slsk for DSC*****.jpg files in a similar manner, and of course there's sites like foundphotos, but i've never seen this principle applied to audio. i haven't checked it out yet, but it's a cool idea nonetheless Edited January 30, 2009 by kaini Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 FAO essines Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio tag http://stark-effect.com/MIT/mic%20in%20tra...0O%20Canada.mp3 lol Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 let's run every single one of them through microsoft songsmith. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 now that's an idea i can run with lol, i might actually download the demo now. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 yeah i remember this from a few years back. I had loads of samples of people singing Will Smiths Wild Wild West, for some reason. I remember using WinMX to get the files. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide FLA FUR BIS FLE's signature Hide all signatures through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 i knew about this when you could actually do it, and at one point had a bunch of these files.. there might have even been a watmm thread about this. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures WATMM Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 *plays violin* Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide GORDO's signature Hide all signatures ZOMG! Lazerz pew pew pew!!!!11!!1!!!!1!oneone!shift+one!~!!! Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 nene multiple assgasms said: let's run every single one of them through microsoft songsmith. lol i want to hear this. would do so myself, but for the first time ever i'm upset i have a mac. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide dr lopez's signature Hide all signatures On 11/24/2015 at 12:29 PM, Salvatorin said: I feel there is a baobab tree growing out of my head, its leaves stretch up to the heavens Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-936986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pilcat Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 i listened to some of the songs on there, they're actually quite good, i downloaded them. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-937015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 man that's awesome. hopefully i can find some long rant to put over an epic godspeed-style post-rock song, zole. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide modey's signature Hide all signatures youtube | bandcamp | soundcloud | twitter | facebook 0F.digital Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/42115-sample-goldmine/#findComment-937048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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