That thing you could’ve sworn you existed, remembered existed and how it has now turned into a great wonder of a chase to acquire again after so long. What is that thing for you?
Mine is discovering what music was played during an old internet radio show I still listen to was. The episodes I’m listening to are 21 years old now and for years I wondered what specific tracks were played on that show that I so want copies of. In one of the episodes, the host mentions that the backing music is from Digitally Imported now known as DI.FM.
However, that doesn’t do me any good since newer music is played now on that platform and with no hint or source telling me what tracks were played on that show in show notes or even word of mouth, I’ve no hope in tracking them down. So for so long, I’ve had to listen to this show’s episodes almost religiously, just because of the music that was played.
And my only hope now is tinkering with audio tools so I can figure a way to rip out the parts where the hosts are talking so it is just the music, then go around online asking people who’re more expert on the genre than I am to tell me, then find them and download them.
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Due to this post I just found mine.
For the longest time I’ve been trying to find a video that featured someone copying a VHS recording over and over again, each time loosing a little bit of quality.
The specific video featured a catchy song, but I couldn’t remember the song or any of the words. I’ve found a few different videos over the years but every time I found a video the song was wrong.
Every few years it’s jumped into my head and I’ve gone off looking for it, but could never quite figure it out.
This time I either put in just the right terms or the magic algorithm has moved it around,
It’s actually pretty cool, I remembered something very similar to this but it was from AVGN. It was uploaded, but taken down, of him showcasing the degrading video quality of a VHS, it was exactly something like this. It might’ve been a home video he did, where he or someone is punching another person while jogging down the street and everytime it played, the quality went down.
Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Back around 2023 — 32 years later — after repeated, sporadic hunts — I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to [email protected]:
https://lemmy.world/post/18353742
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png
I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.
EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.
I remember this image too it’s so fucking badass.
In fact, like I did with the UNIX is Magic poster, I may take this image and get it printed up on a nice large, glossy poster and mount it because fuck I have missed this. Thank you for sharing.
Hah! Glad to hear that that’s another white whale harpooned, then!
I mean, I had completely forgotten about it entirely until you shared it and then the memory just blasted into my mind.
We all have that one porn video.
I don’t because I did a siterip in like 2006-2007ish. I never lost that video.
Similar, but I’ve been saving quality content from FA, E6, etc for over 20 years now. First it was because DSL was awful (700kb/s) and images were small enough for storing, then it was for archival, now the last decadeish I have plex scan the directory whenever I drop this months downloads onto my server, and boom it’s my personal treasure trove, whenever I please. Come over, little TV show, maybe a movie, some snuggles and hey there look at this huge dragon I found last week~
Two things:
An article about a blockade of kayaks that were in an Eastern US port preventing warships from leaving the country to go to the war in Iraq. It was spearheaded by Quakers and was part of the impetus the Bush admin wanted to use to charge Quakers as terrorists. Quakers are one of the few religious groups that are by default conscientious objectors and cannot be drafted into the military due to the non-violence aspects of their religion. I have been able to find evidence that the Bush admin was toying with prosecuting Quakers, but not this specific event.
An article about musicians suing their record company for money made from suing individuals for file sharing. The record companies always argued that the people doing music piracy were stealing from the musicians, but the musicians had to sue their record company to see a penny of that money.
All together I have literally spent days and days over the years trying to find these. I have a fairly good memory and everything else I remember from that period of time I have been able to dig to find the source. These two elude me and it kills me.
One time in the early 2000s, I saw a commercial during Adult Swim on Cartoons Network and I’ve wanted to see it again ever since. It was for Virgin Mobile and it featured Ode to Joy or 1812 Overture plating over quick cuts of mundane objects which turn out to be innuendo… for body parts. I know it wasn’t delusion because I was at a friends house and also though it was epic.
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Anyone watched Dark, the Netflix Germany TV show? I swear the last scene had Lorde’s song as the background. But the last time I rewatched it, the song wasn’t there.
That actually happens kinda frequently with some TV shows. For instance, The House MD theme song is famously Teardrop by Massive Attack, but some streaming platforms didn’t get the rights to that song, and they replace it with a very similar song. I was watching House with a friend a while back, on Netflix I believe, and remember thinking “Wait a sec, this isn’t Teardrop”, and sure enough the credits listed a completely different song for the opening.
Except that it’s usually documented. I’ve looked all over the internet and I could not find a single trace, I’m starting to doubt my sanity.
I’m not familiar with it, but according to this, the last episode is “The Paradise”.
I assume that this is it:
Honestly, I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me, as I already know all that. I have seen it to the end after all.
Anywho, the last time I’ve (re)watched it, it has What A Wonderful World by Soap & Skin, but what I remembered is that it had Perfect Places by Lorde.
I assumed that if you could check it, it’d either have the song or not.
Are any of these what you’re thinking about?
Nope. In place of What A Wonderful World by Soap & Skin, there was Perfect Places by Lorde, at least in my memory.
Back in the early years of youtube there used to be an anituber that had super funny and cool content. He would review anime and had an anime avatar with a cape over his head. (The Avatar kinda looked like Cid “Shadow”) he would make super funny and witty vids and he was also very popular but than deleted all vids and disappeared.
I don’t remeber the name of the channel and many weebs I’ve talked to, don’t have a clue who I’m talking about.
Mine is a video. In my memory it’s a well-produced, fast-paced, choreographed fight scene featuring the Power Rangers battling a band of generic goons for possession of some MacGuffin: a crystal or orb or whatever. The twist is, the whole thing is set to the song Run by Ghostface Killah. Every few years I look for it, and always come up empty-handed.
Could have been taken down due to a copyright complaint if it was using unlicensed commercial music.
I think Run is Capadonna, not Ghostface, unsure if that’s helpful or not.
Run is definitely Ghostface & Jadakiss. It’s got a killer remix by Ratatat which is my favorite version. It’s also got one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
I can’t go to jail my mother cookin’ chicken for dinner! Damn!
That sounds dope as hell.
There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can’t name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven’t, you might give it a shot.
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https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/
I can name a couple of apps that try to recognize songs from the microphone:
SoundHound - my favorite. For most songs I’ve used it for, it recognizes exactly where in the song it was and shows you the lyrics, highlighting the active line and updating live, so you can follow along.
Shazam - most popular and well-known (at least we’re I’m from)
Google - you can use the microphone to search. Has the best chance of recognizing songs through humming or singing in my experience.
I have smaller white whales, every year or so I remember something cool from some 4-5 years ago, usually quite niche, and I am rarely able to find it.
Yesterday, I remembered a music video from the lockdowns. Poppy music with a catchy refrain, the two artists on screen, singer and electric piano player, jungle inspired decorations. A pineapple on the keyboard. I’m sure if I could remember even a couple of words of the refrain I would be set… but somehow i remember that the artists were set in NY.
at least you have the songs.
I did a similar thing with very, very, low quality DI shows I ripped with winamp over 56k.
Waaaay back in the day, before YouTube and all that, we shared small videos.
There was one animated stop frame short film, where ken and barbie were having bdsm styled sex.
Barbie keeps asking Ken to hit her. Harder. Harder!
Eventually he really does, and it ends in a bad way for barbie.
Early 20s me thought it was hilarious.
Have never found it on the modern internet.
The other is the early work of the south Park creators. About a dog. I believe it was called Princess?
There’s a very horrid sex seen where a wife begrudgingly masturbates her husband as the dog watches. Total marriage boredom. Getting the job done just to get it done. Horrid, and beautifully articulated through the animated format.
Again, have never been able to find it.
There was a website, I think flash, once where you could set some parameters; things like proportions, steps of the harmonic series, interval ratios, etc. Then you could start the animation, which was a series of dots around a circle that would chime their pitch as they passed a specific spot.
I went looking for it a few years back but could never find it again. It drove me batty for a while. I even shared some emails with smalin, an awesome music animator but he said he’d seen something like it I believe but didn’t have a link.
Anyway, now there are polyrhythm videos like this, which is similar. But it isn’t interactive and doesn’t show the interesting math actually taking place.
I am a programmer and could of course make something like it, but I really just want it back.
I thought there was something like this in chrome music lab, but don’t see it now: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
An artsy short (Vimeo?) about some girl hanging out her very stylish, beige apartment while a voiceover talsk very intimimately to her. In the end the voiceover talks about being eaten up, and the girl kinda swallows some pudding thing?
It had a slightly french vibe I think, though not as overtly erotic as it sounds.
