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A while back I was playing Half-life on Steam, and every so often a classical madrigal would start playing, with oddly familiar voices. A truly strange bug; I c
by ahh 9y ago
A while back I was playing Half-life on Steam, and every so often a classical madrigal would start playing, with oddly familiar voices. A truly strange bug; I couldn't think of any good reason for it.
Months later, I opened my computer's DVD drive for once, and discovered the reason: my sister, a professional classical singer, had sent me one of her recordings, and I had put it in the computer to listen and forgotten about it for the next year.
Somehow the game was--from its original on-cd release--assuming the proper soundtrack was on track N of the CD, instead of the Steam install.
Remarkably simple in the end, but a very baffling bug at first.
- slazaro 9y agoI think a lot of games used to play tracks on the CD unit if you put an audio CD, so you could listen to your own music while playing. I think even some Playstation games did it, not sure if that's common nowadays.
- mrguyorama 9y agoUsually it came down to the game CDs themselves acting as actual Redbook CDs, though not fully standards compliant. It was easier just to store some normal songs like that then use one of the rather poor compression standards of the time