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Audiogalaxy. Audiogalaxy was an Internet music service with three incarnations. From 1998 to 2002, it was a file sharing system that indexed MP3 files. From mid-2002 to mid-2010, it was a promotional website for the Rhapsody music subscription service. Finally, from mid-2010 through 2012, it was a personal audio place shifting service.
Dec 13, 2012 · Dropbox has acquired streaming-music provider Audiogalaxy in a move that suggests the file-sharing service might be getting ready to launch a cloud music offering. The Seattle-based startup ...
- But First, A Little Bit About MP3s
- The Rise of Napster – and The Fall of The Music Industry
- P2P Madness
- Truly Old-School: IRC
- An Oldie But A Goodie: Audiogalaxy
- Those Were The Days – Or Were They?
In the 90s, digital music was most commonly available in the form of albums on CDs, which stored about 700MB worth of uncompressed audio tracks – good for a full-length album. But with internet bandwidth and speeds being what they were back then, it didn’t make sense to copy those music files and send them to friends over the internet. A single fou...
While a small number of web users had already begun sharing music online through channels like the Internet Underground Music Archive, digital piracy really took off with the launch of Napster, a free file-sharing network that connected people around the world directly to one another. It was developed by 18-year-old Shawn Fanning while he was a stu...
Alongside the monumental growth of Napster, the year 2000 saw the rise of many rival P2P networks, and even more desktop clients for each of them – despite the dangers of building such services being painfully obvious, thanks to the US music industry cracking down on them with all the legal firepower they could muster. Arguably the most notable of ...
While you could certainly hop on P2P networks like the ones we’ve mentioned, the OGs opted for IRC instead. It’s a basic chat protocol that was first invented in the late 80s and is still around today. For the most part, it’s designed for text chat, and using IRC involves finding relevant servers that host chat rooms of interest to you. So if you w...
Launched in 1998 (and therefore predating Napster), Audiogalaxy was one of the oldest services for sharing music. It evolved from an index of FTP sites that hosted music into an excellent sharing service with a quirky workflow. You’d have to first visit the site, search for music that you wanted, and then add files to your Satellite – a piece of de...
While many people found various ways to justify their pirating in the early 2000s, it’s obvious that it didn’t serve the artists behind our favorite records. At the same time, we were discovering new music like never before. Our own Nino de Vries summed up the experience well: Growing up, I was way into hardcore punk, so much so that I got a Minor ...
Dec 13, 2012 · One of Engadget's must-have Android apps of 2010 is about to make its exit -- soon Audiogalaxy will be no more. The music streaming app's team announced that it has been acquired by Dropbox and ...
Jun 18, 2007 · Remembering Audiogalaxy. It’s been five years since Audiogalaxy settled with the RIAA, and I still miss it. Sure, there are still plenty of ways to acquire music, but Audiogalaxy was the best. It had the same “quality control” issues that all user-generated file sharing systems do, but I loved it. My favorite thing about it was the AG ...
Dec 14, 2012 · Adding Audiogalaxy’s underlying technology to the popular Dropbox service could actually end up being a big deal. Here are five reasons to keep an eye out for a Dropbox music service: 1. Dropbox ...
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Audiogalaxy was an Internet music service with three incarnations. From 1998 to 2002, it was a file sharing system that indexed MP3 files. From mid-2002 to mid-2010, it was a promotional website for the Rhapsody music subscription service. Finally, from mid-2010 through 2012, it was a personal audio place shifting service.
