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As the sibling comment mentioned, MOD file formats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file) are a good compromise b
by rob74 3y ago
As the sibling comment mentioned, MOD file formats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file) are a good compromise between "only storing the music" like in MIDI files (which means you have no control whatsoever over how it will sound when replayed) and size limitations - they store the instruments as samples in the file, which saves a lot of space compared to MP3 et al, which store the whole song as a "sample" (despite MP3 using lossy compression).
- mixmastamyk 3y agoThe article doesn't mention that, only mp3.
- livrem 3y agoAnother alternative would be music programming languages. There was a thing for a while with posting SuperCollider tracks as 140 character tweets. A floppy would be plenty of space for full albums of music. There are also wrappers for it in more normal programming languages, like Overtone (using Clojure) or Sonic Pi (Ruby), but the original SCLang is possibly more compact. https://supercollider.github.io/ https://supercollider.github.io/ https://supercollider.github.io/sc-140 https://supercollider.github.io/sc-140 Previous discussion 14 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992231 (22 comments)