I made an album available on floppy disk

[Sharp]

https://notmusic.bandcamp.com/album/floppy


Call me a bitch now


Thanks

[Ynot]

Bitch.

[Sharp]

Thanks

[Answer]

I perused a few of the beats and it sounds dope, has a cool trippy mellow vibe to it. I’ll peep more in depth when I get a chance to dedicate time to a full listen. Ngl I don’t understand the whole floppy angle but keep at it

[Master Rock]

This is so cool... I'm geeking out.

[evaD]

Love this. Last track especially

[Sharp]

Originally Posted by Answer

I perused a few of the beats and it sounds dope, has a cool trippy mellow vibe to it. I’ll peep more in depth when I get a chance to dedicate time to a full listen. Ngl I don’t understand the whole floppy angle but keep at it

Gratsi. Did you read the description there? That attempts to explain why putting this on a floppy was the end goal. It's gimmicky, but I swear there was a point

Originally Posted by Master Rock

This is so cool... I'm geeking out.

Appreciate it boss

Originally Posted by evaD

Love this. Last track especially

Thanks, that one definitely means the most to me.

Hopefully you or swerve can make a concept out of this if you need it

[Answer]

peeped the whole thing, first one's my fav. It's definitely something I can imagine an indie/backpack rapper doing something introspective over. I do feel like I can tell a difference in the floppy version on some of them, especially with the drums on the first one. The last one definitely sounds the same in both to me. Either way, it definitely has those retro zelda snes music vibes but sounds like better quality to me

not really sure what you mean by mixing the tracks to emulate compression though. How do you do this? Is it a VST/plugin that adds lofi effects to it? I know it affects the overall quality of the instrument, but I've never considered whether or not it actually reduces/compresses the file size of the overall project unless its just saved at a lower compression rate

[Sharp]

Originally Posted by Answer

peeped the whole thing, first one's my fav. It's definitely something I can imagine an indie/backpack rapper doing something introspective over. I do feel like I can tell a difference in the floppy version on some of them, especially with the drums on the first one. The last one definitely sounds the same in both to me. Either way, it definitely has those retro zelda snes music vibes but sounds like better quality to me

not really sure what you mean by mixing the tracks to emulate compression though. How do you do this? Is it a VST/plugin that adds lofi effects to it? I know it affects the overall quality of the instrument, but I've never considered whether or not it actually reduces/compresses the file size of the overall project unless its just saved at a lower compression rate

Appreciate it my guy

There are dedicated sound plug-ins for this (I think I used mda degrade a few times) but most of it is good old fashioned EQ and bandpass. It doesn't actually reduce the size of the file (the data is still there in a sense) but it sounds like you did.

The second half is all actually compressed, just by using audacity to export an mp3 with absurdly low sampling rate. Knowing how that sort of file sounded informed the mixing in the first half, so it kind of cut out what was already going to be cut in some cases.

[Incredible]

Yo I listened to all of them, nice chill vibes. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but just curious as to why if you compressed the songs why didn't it make them shorter? Original and floppy cut are the same length. Well I guess you said the size didn't get reduced. Did I just answer my own question? Lol

[Answer]

Originally Posted by Incredible

Yo I listened to all of them, nice chill vibes. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but just curious as to why if you compressed the songs why didn't it make them shorter? Original and floppy cut are the same length. Well I guess you said the size didn't get reduced. Did I just answer my own question? Lol

Any file in your computer is just a bunch of 1's and 0's. Say you had a song, and the file looked something like this

111000101010101111100000101010101010101010101

I could change one small part of the file contents and if it's something really small, you probably can't even hear the difference between the one above and the one below

111000101010101111100000101010101010101010100

there are mathematic ways to determine which of the 1's and 0's have the least amount of impact on the song itself, and that's essentially what compression is. So in essence, your song might be reduced to something like

1110001010

and you may or may not even be able to tell a difference. of course if you compress it too much it becomes noticeable.

WAV files are really big, sometimes 100 mb or so for a song, because they contain lots of information (lot's of 1's and 0's) whereas MP3 files are compressed and much smaller (about 3-4 mb for the same song).

But that has no impact on the length of the song itself. It's just removing a little bit of the quality from every sound you hear

[Incredible]

Oh compressed like that, I see duh. Nice explanation. Explained fully. Still cool beats, was sitting here freestyling to all of them.

[evaD]

Originally Posted by Sharp

Gratsi. Did you read the description there? That attempts to explain why putting this on a floppy was the end goal. It's gimmicky, but I swear there was a point


Appreciate it boss


Thanks, that one definitely means the most to me.

Hopefully you or swerve can make a concept out of this if you need it

If ur after a straight shooter this man can’t
Swerve seen more releases from 2 inch floppies than sharps band camp

[Sharp]

Originally Posted by Incredible

Oh compressed like that, I see duh. Nice explanation. Explained fully. Still cool beats, was sitting here freestyling to all of them.

appreciate the listen. You weren't off with time, too, shorter songs = smaller file size. The finished product had some tracks get shortened to make it all fit on the floppy

just a really specific goal for the piece

Originally Posted by evaD

If ur after a straight shooter this man can’t
Swerve seen more releases from 2 inch floppies than sharps band camp

fire

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[NoetiC]

first of all... you a bitch



second... dope as fuck concept. even though 99.9% of people wont even be able to insert the disk into anything to listen to it, i applaud the effort of actually doing this.

[Sharp]

Originally Posted by NoetiC

first of all... you a bitch

Thank you

Originally Posted by NoetiC

second... dope as fuck concept. even though 99.9% of people wont even be able to insert the disk into anything to listen to it, i applaud the effort of actually doing this.

Thanks. The piece was really personal to me and this felt like giving it a really fitting treatment. There's definitely a lot to be said about no one being able to listen lol, but it was cheap and not a huge investment of time so it's more for me

Thanks for taking the time to look at and read through it

[Geno]

Dope

[Ouch]

I don't understand this..

[Ouch]

let me look at it, dope idea though really good idea... not sure how you'd execute it though

[Ouch]

niece buyt me3 ripping you son