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Re: A lost X-Files song

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

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

There goes my weekend lol. Thanks! Are they the remastered versions? I was quite impressed by how good they looked on the whole.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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post #106

Late to the Shazam show, had not heard of it. Will it work with me playing a melody on the piano or does it need the original record? I have this uplifting jazzy song in my head that was used for the basketball intro in Spain a very long time ago. It sounded much like a Sousa march played by an electric jazz band. Tried all kind of tricks to find it, but no luck so far.

It needs the original record, or something close to it (it can recognise some live versions at a different speed, maybe cover versions). The Google app on iOS or android has a thing where you can hum a melody so that might be better.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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post #28

Makes me think of once I was in bed listening to a house mix and suddenly I heard a remix of a track I've been wanting to re-listen since my child hood. No text, just melody. I jumped out, got on the piano and rev-engineered the melody. Now there are search engines for melodies, I think I used this one: https://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html First 5 hits were not the track (knowing how to read score helps here), but…

There was a trance mix of this in the 90s that charted in the UK: Watergate - Heart of Asia, in case it’s that. You could also check out whosampled.com, that shows who sampled or covered a song.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

If you've got an Internet connection, all the X-files episodes are available for download through torrents.

Unfortunately, I do not have an Internet connection…

Re: A lost X-Files song

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This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me:

During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault.

Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the .bsp file of a particular map of ours. I was very surprised about this message because it was so random at that point in my life, I already moved on to other hobbies than mapping. But apparently the map was a hit among Turkish internet cafes and people were looking for the BSP file to play it after internet cafes lost their popularity and everybody had internet at their homes.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me: During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault. Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the…

Do you remember the name? Might be fun to play!

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

There goes my weekend lol. Thanks! Are they the remastered versions? I was quite impressed by how good they looked on the whole.

It’s quite impressive how good xfiles looks today when you compare it to other shows around the same period.

Space above and beyond in comparison looks pretty terrible from what I have seen. It’s not even wide screen.

I think X files was shot on film perhaps?

I’m not sure if what we have now on say Disney plus for example is a remastered version but certainly it holds up very well.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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post #126

This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me: During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault. Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the…

Do you remember the name? Might be fun to play!

The map was cs_filistin (Palestine in Turkish). Note that I wasn't even 18 at that time and had no idea about politics. There was an official CS map named cs_iraq which looked unique to me and I just wanted to create something similar.

I put all the maps I worked on to my web site with some screenshots, comments from me and my friend (in Turkish) and download links.

You can find cs_filistin here:

http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/cs_filistin/ (I need to install an SSL certificate, I haven't updated the web site in years)

You can find my other maps here:

http://www.canol.info/maps/counter_strike/

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Except.

And I’ll never know. Because X has so severely broken the UX of their product I have no idea how to find out. Or if there even is anything beyond that.

Twitter is becoming a link I don’t bother clicking anymore…

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