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Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by rob74 »

ZuLuuuuuu wrote: post #128
Sarkie wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.inf…

Another aside: I only recently made the connection between the ancient Philistines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines) and Palestine when a speech by Erdogan supporting Palestine was shown on the news and it had a slogan with "something something Filistin" in the background...

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

RileyJames wrote: post #130

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…

One of the people involved published this nice blog post: https://www.joneshouseband.com/about-2

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by froh »

rob74 wrote: post #131
ZuLuuuuuu wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.inf…

Another aside: I only recently made the connection between the ancient Philistines ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines ) and Palestine when a speech by Erdogan supporting Palestine was shown on the news and it had a slogan with "something something Filistin" in the background...

o-O thank you for pointing this out. wow and duh. it's kinda sorta obvious, in hindsight.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by mackman »

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…

Whoa, I had no idea. This is one of my favorite albums. I have the FLAC rip of the CD on my phone. Does anybody know how I could actually rip that zero track? iTunes didn’t do it.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by alibosworth »

mackman wrote: post #134
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…

Whoa, I had no idea. This is one of my favorite albums. I have the FLAC rip of the CD on my phone. Does anybody know how I could actually rip that zero track? iTunes didn’t do it.

I haven’t used it for years, but EAC was the gold standard for ripping. This thread mentions a few other options as well:

https://community.metabrainz.org/t/best-way-to-rip-pre-gap-t...

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by Frost1x »

adastra22 wrote: post #118
hnthrowaway0328 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

>In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were erased and reused at this time.

Wow, just wow. That's mind boggling. I actually had no idea. While I get that hindsight is 20/20, it doesn't take too much intuition to realize if you're sharing something worldwide or the rest of the world watched it, you should probably keep the highest quality copy. It's like you filmed Gangnam Style in 8k, downsampled to 720p for YouTube and then threw the original copy away even after you saw the views climbing to 10s of thousands (or in this case, 10s of millions).

I've worked in some cash strapped research labs so I get the need to repurpose when budgets are tight but come on. I don't know how expensive the medium was but I would have caused quite a stir about preserving something like this. Hell, I've preserved news broadcasts of work I've been involved with that made it to the news that I have to this day, and that is only significant to me really.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by r721 »

mackman wrote: post #134
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…

Whoa, I had no idea. This is one of my favorite albums. I have the FLAC rip of the CD on my phone. Does anybody know how I could actually rip that zero track? iTunes didn’t do it.

The keyword to search is "HTOA" ("Hidden Track One Audio"):

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=HTOA

I think you also need to find CD/DVD drive which can extract HTOA, not all drives can do it. There were lists (one of them is linked in Hydrogenaudio article), but I think those are severely outdated now.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by ComputerGuru »

So I used to Shazam songs from shows all the time, but Shazam “expanded” a few years back to being able to identify the episode of a tv show from a sample and that killed Shazam for me because it would return the episode and show I already knew I was watching instead of the song playing in the background of the dialog I was sampling.

Re: A lost X-Files song

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Post by theIV »

mikub wrote: post #50
hnthrowaway0328 wrote: post #35

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Still a good one. I watched it once few years. I'll probably watch it again this year during Christmas. When my son grows up I'll introduce it to him too. I'm not sure what is the appropriate age but I guess 12 is OK? Some of the scenes are definitely 18+ though, I think.

Just don't let him watch the episode called "Home", some other episodes could also be to early at 12, but most should be ok.

Yup. For better or worse, "Home" _almost always_ gets a "Jump to Next Episode."
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