How you could upload mp3s.
I miss people trading/sharing song files and not just torrenting or p2ping entire albums/discographies.
Uploading an mp3 (or other codec) file to an imageboard or by other means was like what I imagine the pokemon card scene was like.
"Oh you might like this here's this mp3" and then that mp3 becomes part of your life history, you feel an emotional attachment to it.
Someone should invent a musicboard where instead of images you post sound files.

It was the best! I found so much great music from the lovely people there. It had a much nicer atmosphere than 4chan's /mu/ as well.

I used to have a Wanted list of songs and albums I was trying to track down, and I'd link it my name when I posted. I always tried to help other people find music they were looking for (very often it was as simple as googling "album name" rar/zip/320) and in return people would send me music I was looking for. People even made threads for my birthday to send me music because I'd helped so many others! SLAYER!!!

Come to think of it, I reckon I read every single post on 420chan's /m/ from late 2007ish to its death (I guess it died? Idk the story I just know it hasn't been accessible for a while). It was quiet enough that you could easily catch up on all the new posts every few days, though I usually looked every day.

I think there were three things that changed the culture there:

• the dubstep/brostep explosion of the late 00s, for a while nearly every thread on the front page was about dubstep, with that "DUB STEP" Run-DMC logo everywhere
• around the same time, Soundcloud got big, and there were a lot more self-promotion threads. A lot of this music was kick-snare-wubwubwub dubstep wannabes. These got cleaned up and general OC threads were established.
• The rise of Spotify and streaming music in general meant less people were interested in sharing MP3s or downloading albums

>"Oh you might like this here's this mp3" and then that mp3 becomes part of your life history, you feel an emotional attachment to it.

I want to give a special shoutout to sovietrussia's /m/ board too, which I found before I found 420chan. It was very quiet but changed my life thanks to a few random mp3s someone shared, which became some of my favourite music ever and led me to discover more great music!

I remember when iichan (i think) had a tracker forum and you could upload .mod files. That ruled.

>>5
It's a tragedy, the loss of that board. Lots of great stuff consolidated in one convenient place.

>>6 wasn't there an archive of all the media files from there saved somewhere? I thought I downloaded it but I might have dreamt it.

Oh man... in November 2016 someone started a thread on 420chan asking for help finding a certain album, and it sounded interesting so I added it to my list. Well I just found it and wanted to share it with them. I hope they managed to find it for themselves!

>>8
What album was it, if you don't mind me asking?

>>9 Surf Aus Kopenhagen/Berlin by the Baywatchers, a crunchy surf rock band from Sweden and German. It's pretty cool!
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2575906-The-Baywatchers
http://www.reverbcentral.com/reviews/b/baywatchers5178.html
2004. Something my ear picked out, on the live track "Mr. Hoff Blues", one of the riffs sounds quite similar to "Brand New Kind Of" by the Sloppy Meateaters. Could be a coincidence, it's not a complicated riff... that song was featured on the Razor Freestyle Scooter game on PS1 released 2001 so he might have played that!

>>5 I uploaded one to youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1WcLYkoOU

420chan died but I think someone else bought the site name..

Anyhows, here is Libertango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuXOTHIA_BU