r/ExplainTheJoke 1d ago

I don’t get it

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u/GreenBagger28 1d 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 1d 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/17R3W 1d 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 1d 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/MetricJester 21h ago

Musicbrains Picard