Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk(michaelgale.dev)
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Releasing an Album on Floppy Disk
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They’re still a thing! I wrote the code for this recent MS-DOS release! https://remute.bandcamp.com/album/drive-into-the-future-ms-d...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjAivlc2L_k
For convenience!
... for 10 minutes of music! You can't do everything with them, but module files are awesome for some kinds of music...
Now 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.
The 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.
I will have to pass the floppy disk music scene. The idea brings back annoying memories.
Napster 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! :)
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 - The floppy disk music scene (2024-02-28)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 - The floppy disk music scene (2024-02-28)
Having 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.
Not 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
[0]: https://20kbps.net/index2.htm
Funny 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
I 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 ;)
edit: I Am Not Afraid samples what is imo the best hold-music of all time at the end. nice touch ;)
Upvote just for the title and idea
Cool! There are also folks on Bandcamp who have floppy releases as a thing. Here's one: https://powerlunch.bandcamp.com/merch
I 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.
You can release them as midi files, those would easily fit on a floppy..
OT loved disc magazines of the 80s
Using TSAC should render a much higher quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975331
-10 points, hmm...
> 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
> 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.wavDoes 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?
The 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.
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.
I'm disappointed that they didn't use DMF 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.
DMF was on HN a couple of weeks ago or so, but I can't find it.
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Like this 111 KB rendition of "Axel F" they did not sound like crap. https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...