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		williamcotton on Jan 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Shit Show The first MP3 I downloaded was from IRC and played back on the Fraunhofer Institute MP3 player. Old timers will remember that if you caused your screen to redraw at all, say by scrolling a window, the audio would skip. The first song? Bob Dylan - Stuck in the Middle With You… which is actually by Steeler’s Wheel.

stavros on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

Oh man, I remember when the Xing MP3 encoder was the only one that could encode in near-realtime on my 100 MHz Pentium back in the day.

kibibu on Jan 16, 2023 | [–]

And it applied an exciting washy flanger effect to the cymbals as well

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