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.

OQ and OC text by @Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Nope, actually I’ve been very successful at keeping my data intact. I have files going all the way back to my first desktop PC that I got when graduating high school. The oldest files I have are dated early 2000.

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        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~

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      Mine: Pretty blonde girl with some piercings and knee-high rainbow socks doing a striptease to the song “Sail” by Awolnation. She was pretty and timed herself well to the song, it was hypnotic

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      I have multiple!

      It isn’t because they were completely unique or anything either, just that they had the right lighting and framing and reactions that really worked in a sea of similar stuff. Found a few of them over the years, but there are still a few out there haunting me.