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Aaron
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8th Jun 09 at 13:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8089221.stm

Anyone else remember using it in its early years, back in the day of 56k

It used to take me a good 25 minutes to downlaod a song...now it takes 25 seconds
noshua
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25 seconds? that's... roughly 1.3 Mbps, poor you!
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yea, used to use this at uni because they had an T3 connection and then copy music to take home
Doug
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Ahhhh back in the day
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8th Jun 09 at 14:16   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah that's back when Napster used to be good
Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
25 seconds? that's... roughly 1.3 Mbps, poor you!


Re-work that one out on a 7 minute track encoded in 320kb Mp3 smart ass
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Yeah but you won't have had a 7min track @ 320kbps in 25mins using 56k would you Play fair.
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the days when it was free it was good that and WinMX
It's very overated now though, rapidshare and FLAC is where it's at
Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
Yeah but you won't have had a 7min track @ 320kbps in 25mins using 56k would you Play fair.


Yeah....but i do NOW...which is my whole point
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
the days when it was free it was good that and WinMX
It's very overated now though, rapidshare and FLAC is where it's at


FLAC?

>>>> Chris <<<<

 
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