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Topic ID: 119
Message ID: 19
#19, RE: latest Symphony
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-24-01 at 00:22 AM
In response to message #18
>You very nearly got me in trouble for laughing too loudly, between
>your description of Ragulin's<sp? bah, he doesn't deserve the
>effort;)> 'music' and the responses to it. Well done.

I must confess that my favorite piece of imagery in that section is borrowed, or at least owes a heavy debt of inspiration, to an Internet document whose precise provenance I cannot now recall. I think it was a Sega Saturn FAQ. One of the questions was, "How can I rip the music from my games to MP3?", or some such. The answer was that it's usually pretty simple - most Saturn games' music was standard CD audio on the disc, playable in any CD player. However, the document warned, some old CD players aren't smart enough not to play the data track, which can cause damage to playback equipment and listeners' hearing.

"If you play the disc and you hear something that sounds like a jumbo jet playing the trombone," it said, "that's the data track."

The image has stuck in my head ever since, and I suddenly found myself in a situation where I could tip my cap to it, so I did. :)

--G.
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