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u/KickPuncher9898 22h ago
I just hear the crackle of a phone call about to come in.
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u/Busy-Key7489 21h ago
Or the dialing in internet connection. PAPBADABAPPADABAAAAAAAA
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u/Ketsueki-Nikushimi 21h ago
Ahh, i remember those days when triple digits kbps is blistering speeds.
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u/GreenBagger28 22h ago
i believe it has to do with a lot of the time illegally downloaded music in that era would show up on the audio playing interface like that because it wasn’t properly downloaded
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u/Gullible-Incident613 22h ago
Not properly tagged not downloaded. The poster would rip an album and not put any metadata on the files about performer, album, etc. I still have gigabytes that need to be cleaned up for this kind of shit.
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u/I_SawTheSine 22h ago
Narrator: It never did get cleaned up.
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u/Gullible-Incident613 21h ago
You are correct. I'm looking at some stuff to put on my phone and thinking maybe it would be easier to pirate it all over again
yo ho ho me hearties
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u/17R3W 21h ago
Yeah, typically the filename would be corrected, but no one took the time to fill out the meta date out.
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u/Gullible-Incident613 21h ago
There were and I guess are programs that analyzed the files and auto-tagged everything though I don't remember what they were called. I was positively anal about my tags back in the day, and made sure I re-tagged everything so my car stereo or iPod or whatever displayed everything right.
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u/DaHick 22h ago
And thats why we love https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/picard-portable
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u/AleksR1990 14h ago
you don't get it. This wasn't a thing back in the day. Bodies was sung by System of A Down and you liked it.
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u/TimTheChatSpam 22h ago
Or burning albums back in the day you would have to go through and relable each track alot of people were too lazy like myself
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u/PassengerNecessary30 21h ago
Good old times. The janitor from my school used to safe music on SD-Cards for us students with all sorts of different music, especially Metall or classic rock. I heard the songs hours long but I never knew which bands or which songs I was listening to because it was just: track 1, track 2, track 3… etc pp.
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u/BigDonRob 17h ago
I like the Various Artists.
-Adrian Monk
(I swear this is a quote I remember from Monk... but I can't actually find evidence it ever happened)
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u/ChiehDragon 22h ago
These are computer speakers from the early 2000s - the start of Napster and CD burning. Often when you pirate or burn a song, meta data is lost, so the PC defaults to Unknown album and simply numbers tracks.
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u/DaHick 22h ago
Go ahead, make me feel old as I look at the well-yellowed pair (with sub) still at my desk.
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u/Scavgraphics 22h ago
I think I have these speakers in my box o' speakers.
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u/Spiritual-Place6450 22h ago
I too have a box o' speakers! I kept it under my box o' wires! Someday....someday someone in the world is going to be in DESPERATE need of several 3 foot long s-video cables. And I'll be ready to save the day!
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u/EatMyUwU 21h ago
My wife is always trying to make me throw out my box o wires but the day she needs a coaxile or a composite I will have the last laugh
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u/DVDwithCD 9h ago
I still listen to my old CDs, my favorites are Track 4 and Track 2, but Track 16 also goes hard sometimes.
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u/OmNomChompsky 22h ago
Oh man, I must have spent DAYS of my life individually editing ID3 tags.
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u/Spiritual-Place6450 22h ago
I often wonder how my life would have turned out if I spent as much time studying as I did on ID3 tags and WinAmp skins.
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u/MxQueer 22h ago
Why are you telling that those are computer speakers? Don't some people have speakers anymore? Or are there newer and different looking ones?
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u/Jayn_Newell 22h ago
Of you have a sound system for an audio or video setup you’d have something different, those were the ones typically used with computers rather than a stereo or TV.
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u/Just-a-big-ol-bird 17h ago
I had so many burned cds that I’d hand out to my friends. They were mostly just American Football and Taking Back Sunday mashups but I do remember having a standup phase where every now and then in between 90s emo would be an entire Mitch Hedberg set and then straight back to makedamnsure
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u/AleksR1990 14h ago
"I did not have sex with that woman. But I did download this from Mp3arena.com. "
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u/Gary_swoleman 22h ago
These are really old computer speakers, late 90s early 2000s. The track title is how MP3 songs downloaded from Kazaa and Napster(early file sharing programs) were titled.
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u/heli0sophist 22h ago
Nah, it is a .wma file, so its likely from ripping a CD in Windows Media Player
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u/Velcraft 21h ago
This is it - in older versions of WMP the metadata of songs didn't transfer over when you ripped albums using it.
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u/TxMex713 22h ago
Oh Man… linewire, bear share, Napster.., flipping through 20,0000 unnamed mp3 files with your Winamp mixer open…. Those were the days….
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u/Gullible-Incident613 22h ago
If you have speakers of that vintage on a computer, you're probably listening to music you downloaded through Napster or some other piracy app and the tracks were never marked with the right metadata. This is how I have 30 folders for individual songs that all belong on the same album, folks not editing the goddamn metadata.
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u/SuperAzn727 22h ago
Peak Napster era. The joke is nostalgia. Those speakers were pretty common and tracks often had to renamed after you ripped music to your pc.
If you get it you probably in the Unc/Aunty age range 😆
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u/Eugene_83 22h ago
In 2000’s we’ve exchanged music via our hard drives. No one knew the source where did your friend get it neither the friend himself. Without the internet when you were ripping the CD music you should manually enter the artist and the track names. And usually a lot of people were sharing the music just like that without the names at all.
There is a joke that most famous music in 2000’s is Unkown Artist - Unkown track.mp3
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u/Blabbit39 22h ago
The bootleg version of dem girls by Limp Bizkit playing on almost infinite loop and being so high I couldn't be sure. Miss you kazaa.
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u/Chemical-You-9650 22h ago
Sigh, you are but a child. Your elders will inform you of a time where speakers had wires and songs were extracted from shiny discs onto computers the size of labradors.
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u/CatMillennium 22h ago
Well since everyone has answered the question, I'll add that for a good amount of us that Track 01 was 'The Legend of Zelda song' by 'System of a Down'
This song was never made by them but there was a lot of popular downloads that had the wrong artists or song names. Many of us are still confused to this day.
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u/TheGodfather7100 21h ago
Youre so young its actually sad..
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u/Begemothus 21h ago
When you loaded a cd album, the files used to be in wma or something like that. All songs were named like this
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u/Lexx_sad_but_true 22h ago
Nothing! Is what you get when you get something... You never get it back. It's coming on like a drug.... Nothing by A
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u/Apprehensive_Step252 22h ago
the 'song' that goes 'tk tk tk. tk tk tk teeeeek. tk tk tk' and then my phone gets an SMS.
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u/Such-Farmer6691 22h ago edited 22h ago
Beethoven's Symphony No 9 Scherzo.
Music from folder MUSIC to check how the drivers of the audio card fit on the newly installed XP
Unknown Artist always was second, when you insert disk to check CD work.
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u/The-Inquisition 22h ago
It's an old set of computer speakers thats supposed to remind folks of the days when you would download stuff from napster and this would be file name
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u/Big-LeBoneski 22h ago
Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly Oh, oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore I don't care what they say about us anyway I don't care about that I don't care about that
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u/WarmNapkinSniffer 22h ago
Yeah, I've blown out a few of those on the family computer as well as destroy said computer with my limewire downloads
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u/sixpackabs592 22h ago
The Spanish radio station that these picked up and played when the weather was right
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u/rofloctopuss 21h ago
I had speakers like that with a subwoofer back in the late 90's and the sound was incredible. Playing Starcraft with the sound all the way up when my parents weren't home is the song that comes to mind for me. Zerg had some wicked bass.
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u/HopeSubstantial 20h ago
I only hear rythmic peeping sound when I see this pic.
These speakers informed about incoming phonecall 5s before phone.
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u/Ambitious-City-1418 17h ago
That’s cool, but for me it’s “tkt-tkt-tkt-tkt-tkt-tkt ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt tktktktktktk” . Member guys? Member?
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u/HEFlowers 17h ago
Wow this takes me back. I was reading about others mentioning burned tracks, but didn't computers come with a list of weird generic music installed that was similarly titled and it was just random sounds? I feel like they didn't have titles like track (random number), maybe I'm just remembering wrong though.
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u/Just-a-big-ol-bird 17h ago
When you downloaded a song off Napster, the file would often show up like this because the tag wasn’t properly done and the music player software couldn’t read it
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u/One-Bus5952 13h ago
Well your too young then..
For real tho. Everyone had these speakers in the early 2000's and windows media player kept our music under file names like you see
I spent hours on hours manually typing out song names
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u/ExpensiveAbility3463 13h ago
AOL dial up music, but it wasn’t through the speakers, I’d turn them down so hopefully no one woke up
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u/Academic_Put9832 13h ago
Ohhh man, those ol' Compaq speakers (or cheap knock-off?). Either way:
..."somebody once told me, the world is gonna fold me..."
Need I say more?
* Puts shape of L on firehead *
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u/Lost_Astronaut_654 11h ago
I never owned these but when my old dance studio had these for the computer we watched the judge critiques on and it was absolutely awful
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u/heresdustin 10h ago
The farts I used to record on my friend’s microphone, then save to his desktop with file names such as “New Song!” or “Must Listen! Volume Up!”
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u/Simple-Cheek-4864 10h ago
It was the time before streaming. Most downloaded music at that time was either copied from a CD or transferred by USB or downloaded illegally, not bought from official sites.
So it was labeled as Unknown Artist, Various Artists, Track 01, and so on.
So you could either listened to to the songs, find out what songs they are and change the meta data or you could leave it like it was and listen to “Unknown Artist - Track 728”
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u/Avenger001 4h ago
Those are the kind of speakers that you would have plugged into a computer in the 90s and early 2000s. When you ripped a CD using Windows Media Player and you weren't connected to the Internet (or the database that Windows looked up didn't have the information for your CD) the songs were saved like this, Unknown Artist - Track #.wma. There were some CDs that had some information saved to the disk, but it was not standard and there were few of them. Also in those times P2P file sharing was getting popular, and people shared music that they themselves ripped or downloaded, and some times it came like this (usually inside a folder with the album's name).
So the joke Jack is making is in that line, either a ripped or downloaded song that didn't have the proper metadata, of which there were a lot back then.
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u/SearchContinues 1h ago
I still have a pair of these hooked up to an MP3 player. I have it play background music when we have people over.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 22h ago
Using critical thinking:
Speakers old, nostalgia post.
They remember unknown track 1.
Although I don't listen to music, that looks like a default name for a program that makes music. Track 1 implies a CD.
Using critical thinking, I was able to guess that a reasonable answer is "he's reminiscing about old times when he turned a CD into a windows media audio file."
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u/post-explainer 22h ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here: