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Not sure I follow. I just tried with Spotify on my phone and desktop (oooh Electron spooky) and any song plays instantly.
It's just a variation of the standard "all modern software is garbage because Facebook and Twitter are garbage" nonsense complaint.
The fact that the songs play instantly when you click makes me sad for literally all modern software.
When you click, you download packages between 30kb and 300kb (roughly speaking); the player is surely already in memory - that is your latency. For systems that run immediately on machines with a fraction of power.
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For me it meant sid, and a bunch of ym trackers on atari st. The mods where just chip style. That said i really loved those old chip mods
Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the nineties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune "The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term)"
chiptunes on Amiga (mod, xm) where reproducing samples of the sounds created with HW synthesizers (CHIPs), like, for example, the C64 SID, one of the most popular ever.
For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human singer
For some original true chiptune, see the amazing work of the amazing Rob Hubbard[2]
The 8bit electric guitar of Skate or die still gives me goosebumps almost 40 years later[3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0
The fact that the songs play instantly when you click makes me sad for literally all modern software.
They don't though? I just clicked between two tracks a few times. Each time I switch there is a very clear delay between the click and the playback starting. You can even visually tell there's a delay because the row only becomes highlighted when playback of that track starts.
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Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the nineties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune "The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term)"
emphasis on that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term) chiptunes on Amiga (mod, xm) where reproducing samples of the sounds created with HW synthesizers (CHIPs), like, for example, the C64 SID, one of the most popular ever. For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human singe…
Yes, old computers and consoles with sampling capabilities. Chiptune means to "emulate" older sound chips with sampling hardware.
In the nineties SID music was just SIDs.
"For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human singer"
Agreed.
"For some original true chiptune, see the amazing work of the amazing Rob Hubbard[2]"
Rob's work is amazing, but I really don't think he'd refer them as chiptunes.
In the early nineties, as a demo (intro) coder you wanted a chiptune when you had space constraints. 40 kB total for code / gfx / music, which was a pretty common size limit for Amiga intros that time, so you had maybe 4-15 kB for the chiptune.
How do I know? I was there.
My only complain is that track selection is inconsistent among systems, for example on Sega Master System the game tracks is spread among individual .vgm files but on Nintendo all the tracks is contained on a single .nsf file, which I find disavantadgeous compared to the former one because you have to go through all the tracks to find what you want.
I would rather if track selection would be uniform on all systems by spreading them to individual files like Sega Master System does.
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Not sure I follow. I just tried with Spotify on my phone and desktop (oooh Electron spooky) and any song plays instantly.
I actually find that Spotify is super buggy. If I switch devices it doesn't work (I have to select the new device at least five times), when I go underground with my phone it's super slow to realise that I've lost connection, and I usually have to restart the app for it to continue playing music.
I remember something was posted to HN a while ago about exporting your playlists from Spotify. That's my current hurdle to leaving the platform, if I can do that and whichever service allows me to import these playlists I'll be leaving.