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Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)
- tarboreus 8y agoTerrifying.
- andai 8y agoThe bitrate, I assume? :)
- derefr 8y agoIt's funny; I wanted to upload a bunch of music from KeygenMusic.net into iTunes Match; but it wouldn't take them, because iTunes Match thinks that anything with a bitrate below, I think, 128kbps, is speech from a voice-recorder rather than professionally-mastered music. In the end, I re-rendered all the music myself using a tracker program to FLAC, and from there to Q=256 constrained AAC. Each file was probably four times the size for no noticeable gain in sound quality, but at least they upload now. :)
- jeffalyanak 8y agoWas it not possible to get the source modules themselves and actually record them at a higher bitrate?
- derefr 8y agoThat’s what I said I did, in the second paragraph. “Render” is the verb for going from a digital sequencer file to an analogue output (just like going from SVG to PNG is “rendering.”)
- jeffalyanak 8y agoAh, I see, sorry for the confusion. I've always personally used terms like re-encode because the end product is still a digital encoding. I suppose a lot of people in the music world would prefer to call it bouncing. I think all these terms are valid.
- derefr 8y ago> the end product is still a digital encoding A digital encoding of Nyquist samples, though—meaning that you've got something which, at that point, is a lossless description of the equivalent analogue intensities that would be cut into a depth groove. (Provided that none of the data is above the Nyquist frequency, which is usually true-by-design in the kind of chiptune audio being discussed here.) There isn't really any difference between holding onto the digital data after rendering it, and holding onto an (ideal, lossless) recording medium containing the analogue waveform you got by putting that digital data through a DAC. There's a bijection—you can always recover one from the other. So why not think of PCM audio as an "analogue medium"—just one that requires a blob of digital logic to turn it into a signal on a wire, rather than a stylus?
- voltagex_ 8y agoIf anyone else wants to do this: find one of the 7z files from pub.keygenmusic.org, grab OpenMPT [1] and export to WAV. It looks like ffmpeg can also link to libopenmpt but I haven't tried. 1: http://openmpt.org/ http://openmpt.org/
- drenvuk 8y agoListening in and loving it. Probably going to listen to this all day.
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- casenjo 8y agoI'm a huge chiptune fan, this is perfect for me for coding. Thanks! :D
- jchw 8y agoIf you like this, there are quite a few good internet radio stations that focus on video game and chip music. One of my personal favorites is rainwave.cc.
- Moru 8y agoMy favourite is http://www.slayradio.org http://www.slayradio.org
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoI used to rely on http://kohina.com/ http://kohina.com/ about a decade ago, but most of the streams are dead now.
- Maakuth 8y agoMe too. They are facing some sort of infrastructure trouble at the moment, but there's a temporary stream up here: http://kohina.duckdns.org:8000/stream.ogg http://kohina.duckdns.org:8000/stream.ogg
- FreeFull 8y agoI enjoy listening to Nectarine Radio https://scenestream.net/demovibes/ https://scenestream.net/demovibes/ which streams demoscene music, a significant portion of which is chiptunes.
- jchw 8y agoOf course, we can't forget SceneSat, if we're talking demoscene.