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Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk
- eimrine 2y agoHaving a scull on an album cover reminds me some dissident vinil recordings made on used x-ray negatives typically with somebody's bones photographed on it.
- habi 2y ago- https://www.x-rayaudio.com/ https://www.x-rayaudio.com/ - https://youtu.be/XMCCYnDvpJQ https://youtu.be/XMCCYnDvpJQ
- cstone 2y agoCool! There are also folks on Bandcamp who have floppy releases as a thing. Here's one: https://powerlunch.bandcamp.com/merch https://powerlunch.bandcamp.com/merch
- mofoteam 2y ago[flagged]
- voidUpdate 2y agoNah, its pretty cool :P The cool part being compressing an entire album onto a single floppy
- omoikane 2y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 - The floppy disk music scene (2024-02-28)
- al_borland 2y agoThe last time I put music on a floppy disk was 20 years ago, trying to get a single mp3 off an old Windows 95 computer with no USB or network support. I had to use WinRAR to split the file up across multiple disks, move it to a more modern system, and stitch it back together. It worked, if I never wanted to use another floppy disk after that. I wasn’t completely successful, but that’s due to work stuff that couldn’t ve avoided, and was far less annoying. I will have to pass the floppy disk music scene. The idea brings back annoying memories.
- robbiep 2y agoHaha the same with me. 4 trips for Jack and Dianne
- ale42 2y agoSame here! In 1997 or so, I was so excited that I could put a 1-minute track on a floppy and play it back in real time...
- berkes 2y agoNapster on the uni network. Then split the mp3 over three floppies. Cycle home, read in the floppies, find out one disk is borked. Cycle back to uni. Put the slice on another disk. Cycle back. Finally, done. One song copied. Eleven to go for the full album. For free! :)
- maitola 2y agoUpvote just for the title and idea
- rob74 2y agoNow I wonder how much music you could fit on a floppy if you recorded the analog signal? A double-sided floppy drive would be perfect for stereo, one side for each channel. Maybe use a spiral track like on CDs instead of the usual concentric tracks? But of course that would require custom-made (or heavily modified) floppy drives, and it would sound about the same as a cassette.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoOT loved disc magazines of the 80s
- bux93 2y agoMusic disks used to be a thing in the 90's demo scene. Like this 111 KB rendition of "Axel F" they did not sound like crap. https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=32394 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
- ale42 2y ago... for 10 minutes of music! You can't do everything with them, but module files are awesome for some kinds of music...
- simonjgreen 2y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjAivlc2L_k https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjAivlc2L_k For convenience!
- bananaboy 2y agoThey’re still a thing! I wrote the code for this recent MS-DOS release! https://remute.bandcamp.com/album/drive-into-the-future-ms-dos-music-album https://remute.bandcamp.com/album/drive-into-the-future-ms-d...
- larme 2y agoNot the same but there's a netlabel called 20kbps[0]. Most of their albums are mp3s around 10-20 MB in total. [0]: https://20kbps.net/index2.htm https://20kbps.net/index2.htm
- bitwize 2y agoFunny this should come out a day or two after I downloaded and played Alcatraz's "Memorial Songs" musicdisk (actually 2 disks, featuring tunes by Lizardking, who was pretty much the Brian Eno of the demoscene): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mskWhgAVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mskWhgAVM
- goodburb 2y agoUsing TSAC should render a much higher quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975331
- goodburb 2y ago-10 points, hmm...
- levidos 2y agoYou can release them as midi files, those would easily fit on a floppy..
- m_st 2y agoI have great memories of downloading MIDI files found with Altavista, Yahoo or even something like midi.com, then putting them on a floppy and have them play back on my Technics KN-2000 keyboard. Then MP3 happened.
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- ahartmetz 2y agoI'm disappointed that they didn't use DMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format to get about 17% more space for higher, uh, "quality". DMF was on HN a couple of weeks ago or so, but I can't find it.
- lagniappe 2y agoI will add the music is really catchy. edit: I Am Not Afraid samples what is imo the best hold-music of all time at the end. nice touch ;)
- justsomehnguy 2y ago> My final diskettes will contain a single song, so the first thing I need to do is glue these 10 songs together into one. In other words, I need to concatenate them. > To do that I'll use ffmpeg, a free and open source audio and video encoding suite. > Superuser user, evilsoup, explains very clearly how to concatenate files using ffmpeg. ... or you can just issue copy input1.wav+input2.wav+input3.wav+input4.wav output.wav
- voidUpdate 2y agoDoes that actually work? Won't it interpret the header data of all the files after input1 as samples, so you'll get a screech between each track?
- justsomehnguy 2y agoThe header length is 44 bytes. 1 second of 16-bit signed PCM is 88244 bytes at 44Khz. 44 / 88244 * 100 = 0.049 So it's extremely short, but on the default 16-bit PCM encoding it's an annoying click. Not sure if the author workflow allows to save/export the raw data.