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Re: Oink's Pink Palace

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Post by nrp »

ssharp wrote: post #19

Oink filled a void at a perfect time in music. I grew up in the 90's and CDs typically ran in the $15-20 range. This was when minimum wage was something like $5.15 an hour. So it would take 3-4 hours of work to buy a CD. This led to having to really pine over purchase decisions. Pre-Napster, this meant using a few things as filters: the radio, label compilations albums that featured a lot of songs by artists and were…

> I don't really recall what I did with music from Oink's shutdown in 2007 until Spotify came to the U.S. a few years later.

I believe most folks migrated to What.cd until large streaming platforms made music discoverability and accessibility possible again.

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Post by dakial1 »

I was both on OiNK and What.cd and both were awesome places to find new music and bootlegs.

I was always after show recordings with different version of songs which would never reach anybody’s ears if it wasn’t for the people sharing them.

I understand the whole copyright discussion but at least for music I understand that people there were really lovers of music, not just people wanting to pay nothing for the artists work.

I still believe there is a space for a streaming service sharing raw show recordings (which I somewhat use YT music for).

Re: Oink's Pink Palace

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Post by [deleted] »

eddieroger wrote: post #39
nehal3m wrote: post #29

I miss curating local files and playing them with Winamp (just noticed the red squiggly under that name, god I'm old). The mobile-first streaming interfaces with miles of whitespace and big touch targets annoy the heck out of me. When I'm actively listening to music I want the interface to serve that purpose; just give me a list of albums, artists and song titles and let me filter them. Easily managing a playlist is…

I have recently missed that as well (after feeling very strongly about having access to all the world's music, all the time, and immediately). Fortunately I still have most of my CDs and work from home, so I can jockey my discs in and out of a ripper pretty easily, and land them on my Plex server. Plexamp isn't WinAmp, but it's got a nice CarPlay interface and lets me control the end to end, so it'll do. Maybe that w…

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Re: Oink's Pink Palace

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Post by 15155 »

neontomo wrote: post #31

I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was…

I distinctly recall the what.cd "entrance test" IRC bot.

Re: Oink's Pink Palace

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

clows wrote: post #28
rpy wrote: post #10

RIP to a real one. Nothing since has been as good

Soulseek was pretty sweet - people would chat me up when downloading an album they shared and ask if I wanted anything else they hadn't ripped yet - or recommend something similar. It was more like napster though and not torrent based iirc.

Soulseek is very much still around. I recently logged in for the first time in a long while, and I was able to get all kinds of rare recordings. That said, it seems a less social place than 20 years in terms of using the chat feature. I would suspect that the majority of heavy Soulseek sharers are now in their 30s and 40s, with careers and families, and not so interested in making new music friends.

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Post by easyThrowaway »

Spidler wrote: post #11

I'm still salty about the loss of OiNK and the cruft of junk that is streaming services. Finding new artists is near impossible with the profit focus of streaming services today. Spotify insists that you listen to product placement paid top one this week, no matter if you've just had a two hour session of death metal, it insists that you want to hear whatever top-star released last week. Apple is similar, but on thei…

Apple Music is hilarious for this.

No matter which is your starting track, if left to their own devices the "For You" and "Music Station" features will start veering into Top-40 pop music just after a few songs. They should be renamed "Six-degrees of separation from Bad Bunny generator".

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Post by pivic »

scld wrote: post #43
neontomo wrote: post #31

I was never on OiNK but I ended up being a moderator on What.CD for half a year or so, made some lovely memories there and it was my first time being exposed to real nerds building unconventional things. The people I met there are the reason I installed Linux for the first time, learned how to build IRC bots and went on to dive deeper into technology as a passion and hobby. The quality of coders you'd meet there was…

oink and what.cd were the best music discovery methods ever devised and that remains true today

I loved them both buy don't forget SoulSeek!

Re: Oink's Pink Palace

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Post by homefree »

blisstonia wrote: post #9
geoah wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was so sad to see oink go. What cd did a good job but nowhere close to oink. I feel there was one more that I’m missing after oink.

WhatCD was pretty damn good, I'd say it rivalled Oink. Remember the bounty on that MSFT forensic tool? The copy of the unreleased JD Salinger novel? Both fulfilled...

I remember coffee getting fulfilled, but don’t recall the Salinger novel getting fulfilled.

What was the story there? Iirc it was in the Princeton rare books library and it was hard to get access to? Guessing someone took photos?

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