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I used dejavu to fingerprint the entire ~2007 snapshot of the modarchive (repo of tracker-based music) which was about 120,000 individual songs in order to iden

I used dejavu to fingerprint the entire ~2007 snapshot of the modarchive (repo of tracker-based music) which was about 120,000 individual songs in order to identify a song I'd first heard back in ~2006. There was definitely something special about finally identifying the song after almost a decade. https://linux.ucla.edu/~eqy/molasses.html https://linux.ucla.edu/~eqy/molasses.html The biggest surprise for me was that the entire process took only a few days on a single laptop (Sandy Bridge, no SSD).

bane 10y ago
It's almost insane at how much artistic output the demoscene has produced and yet has remained almost entirely underground. That's almost a year of round the clock music playing 24/7 for free and completely unencumbered by any sort of licensing or playback restrictions. Most modern media players will play the formats back also without trouble (VLC for example). Awesome write up, I'm looking forward to reading it all.