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Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by jgtrosh » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 4:22 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #89

Somewhat related, in that involves the X-Files and hidden songs, the CD of X-Files related music had a "Track 0" that can be accessed by rewinding beyond 0:00 of track 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_f... > Producers used the Compact Disc's pregap, so a listener would have to actually manually rewind the first track a full nine minutes to hear two additional hidden tracks, "Time Jesum Tr…

Another amazing track 0, which is described in the (extensively long) album title as having been “lost”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_of_the_Remixes

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by at_a_remove » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 4:23 AM UTC

I love this kind of thing. A lot of times I will have to write a composer or bother a sound engineer for something uber-rare, something that was never officially released. Many of them are only too happy to share.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by Andrex » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

asadalt wrote: post #40

I once was listening to a song in a cafe in Pakistan and couldn't find it. Me and friends did: - Shazam a few times - Ask the restaurant folks if they can look at some screen to get us the name, apparently it was on a screenless mp3 player - I recorded a sample of it - I tried all fingerprinting services apart from Shazam - Posted on a few subreddits, found the base song, a daft punk song but not exact one - I looked…

There was a remix of a Backstreet Boys song at a club that completely changed my opinion of the band (along with a mix of various other factors...) I recorded it and have scoured YouTube constantly, but no luck so far.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by UberFly » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 4:53 AM UTC

codexb wrote: post #54

mikub wrote: post #20

This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

I fondly remember getting Little Caesars pizza every Friday after soccer practice and coming home to stay up late with my dad and watch the new X-Files. The 90's truly were the best decade.

It's funny how these kind of -maybe mundane at the time- things really are the most important things.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by mproud » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 5:22 AM UTC

The rightful conclusion will be when someone can watch the X-Files episode, query Shazam, and it returns the song!

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by fudged71 » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 5:49 AM UTC

danirod wrote: post #14

I find stories about lost media intriguing and I am happy that this one got resolved. There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_... Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as well: https://en.wikipedia.org…

Is there a subreddit for lost media?

Internet Archive reached out to me (personally?) because there was an audio file from the original Minecraft - the sound of a cow. I had made a comment about the sound on Reddit many years ago, so they reached out asking if I still have it on a hard drive somewhere

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

Finally, a case where the platform's rebrand makes sense.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by adastra22 » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 6:45 AM UTC

hnthrowaway0328 wrote: post #75

adastra22 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the original video recording of the moon landing has been lost. It was broadcast live, but all we have is the grainy, shitty, washed out recording of the national news you see shown everywhere. The actual signal from the moon, which people at Mission Control would have seen, had a FAR better resolution and contrast. It was recorded with basically the best camera they could send, and digitized and returned to ear…

How did they lose that? Sigh...

It really comes down to “no thought to preserve it”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 6:45 AM UTC

system2 wrote: post #94

Why do people use twitter as a blog post platform? Why can't she write a blog post and share it on twitter?

This is one of the actual great use cases for Twitter, where 1) bite sized statements are easy to spread and be digested, and 2) can attract real-time contributions from other users (who the original author can then share), 3) can instantly spawn separate subthreads not far removed from the original discussion. (The tweet by Michelle St Claire about the song likely being specifically composed for shows inspired a whole different conversation about production music libraries.)

If this was posted on a blog it would be a whole series of posts or perhaps edits to the same otherwise static blog article. Not to mention this is also not an instance of someone writing long-form tweets in an interminable thread, i.e. the classic "why is this not a blog post?" classic anti-use case.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by zaptrem » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 7:20 AM UTC

opello wrote: post #101

adastra22 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the original video recording of the moon landing has been lost. It was broadcast live, but all we have is the grainy, shitty, washed out recording of the national news you see shown everywhere. The actual signal from the moon, which people at Mission Control would have seen, had a FAR better resolution and contrast. It was recorded with basically the best camera they could send, and digitized and returned to ear…

In my fever dream version of reality the success of something like "For All Mankind" would present an opportunity to fund searching for this footage.

I read an article a while ago that concluded the tapes were almost certainly reused (overwritten).