[HN Gopher] Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)
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Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)
Author : BenFeldman1930
Score : 137 points
Date : 2023-06-18 07:42 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cable.ayra.ch)
(TXT) w3m dump (cable.ayra.ch)
| codetrotter wrote:
| I remember FFF keygens and NFO files. Their name meant "Fighting
| For Fun" :D
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Mega Man themes!!!
|
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884
|
| I can't believe it!
| jdangu wrote:
| As someone who authored some keygen templates in this list (circa
| 1999-2000), this music was not commonly properly sourced. Chip
| music had already turned classic and we would pick what we liked.
| Providing credits was best effort. At some point we were very
| happy to collaborate with a chip music artist who made a tune
| just for our template, this was more the exception than the norm.
| tl;dr: this archive doesn't carry proper credits to original
| artists. The demo scene is where it's at.
| Mizza wrote:
| Dang, this is awesome. Now I'm going to have to spend an hour
| trying to find the tune that's been stuck in my head since 2004.
| wingerlang wrote:
| I also had one in mind, which I found almost instantly.
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1735
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Other resources:
|
| http://keygenmusic.org -- A hugh library of keygen music
|
| http://modarchive.org -- Site for Tracker Musicians
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| Ah, how I recall in the late 90s browsing through the seedy sites
| looking for the specific version keygen/crack I needed... back
| before ad-blockers and those websites were like 10% content, 90%
| porn ads, on dial-up. These all sound so nostalgic, even if I
| can't recall which specific tunes I heard back then.
|
| This is great. Thank you.
| daneel_w wrote:
| Nitpicky factoid: the correct name for this type of music, as
| used in the scene where it originates from, is CHIP MUSIC or
| CHIPTUNES.
| nonethewiser wrote:
| Its not mutually exclusive. These chiptunes cone from key
| generators which is why its called keygen music.
|
| > Illegitimate key generators are typically distributed by
| software crackers in the warez scene and demoscene. These
| keygens often play "Keygen music", which may include the genres
| dubstep or chiptunes[1] in the background and have artistic
| user interfaces.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keygen
|
| More details:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/66nvia/w...
| daneel_w wrote:
| Some of them come from there, a few of them even exclusively
| composed for this or that cracking group to use in their key
| generators, but the vast majority of them were just taken
| from prior intros (demos) and crack intros from a time before
| software began commonly using calculable serial keys. The
| history is not the least unknown to me, as I grew up in both
| the demo scene and the "elite/piracy" scene of the Commodore
| 64 and the Commodore Amiga - where all of this began.
| kortex wrote:
| Chip music / chiptune specifically to music produced on/for
| sound chips, or produced using tracker software which was
| commonly used to produce this kind of music.
|
| "8-bit" is also often used to refer to the genre of chiptune,
| even though much of the music is produced for higher bit depth
| systems.
|
| Many keygen tunes are chiptunes, produced on trackers, but many
| are not. Some are straight-up DnB, techno, or trance, not
| remotely chiptune. E.g. Here's a track from downthread which
| would be considered rave/ old skool / breakebeat hardcore or
| just "hardcore" (not to be confused with like a dozen other
| genres called "old skool" or "hardcore" (it's a very ineffable
| genre from a fairly narrow time period, from a fairly
| underground at the time subculture, who released via physically
| unstable "dubplates" that haven't survived well through digital
| archiving)).
|
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbeat_hardcore
|
| It's almost like language is fluid and descriptive, not
| proscriptive.
| daneel_w wrote:
| It was never really about the genre per se, though there is a
| certain artistic similarity that can be gleaned, similar to
| how e.g. Japanese game music of the early 90s has a certain
| red thread to it. It was always about the nature of the
| instruments used in the tracker music: a notable use of
| simple looped waveforms and minimal samples, instead of
| extended samples of a real or synthesized instrument, and
| often a desire to squeeze the file size of these tracker
| modules down to a minimum to the point where it became a bit
| of a craft to some. People (like me) who spent a lot of time
| in the scene when this era of computer music came into
| existence have a specific and widely shared opinion about
| what is a chiptune and what isn't.
| snowram wrote:
| Chiptune does have its subgenres. Keygen chiptune usually have
| a very distinct style with a lot of fast arpeggios and mainly
| pulse waves instruments with no attack or delay.
| tom_ wrote:
| Depends on the tune... some of these sound more like mods or
| xms, made up of samples rather than synthesized notes (the
| synthesized nature being one of the distinguishing
| characteristics of the chip tune).
| jrm4 wrote:
| Nitpickier:
|
| Fairly certain the music itself strongly predates these terms.
| I'm reminded of when the phrase "mash-up" got popular; though
| hip-hop DJ's doing "blends" had been happening for years
| before.
| vardump wrote:
| Also these tunes are XM modules. XM is a popular tracker.
| Trackers are type of music making software pioneered by
| Soundtracker on Amiga.
|
| I wouldn't be surprised if many of these tunes have just been
| ripped from somewhere else and not actually made by keygen
| crackers themselves.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Music trackers are so cool. Instead of recorded audio, they
| produce modules which are essentially programs that the
| tracker software executes to reproduce the sound. You can
| even see the unmixed waveforms of each instrument being
| generated in real time. It's just so cool to watch.
|
| https://youtu.be/eclMFa0mD1c
| bananaboy wrote:
| To be even nitpickier the tracker that makes XM files is
| called FastTracker2 ;)
| vardump wrote:
| Oh, you're absolutely right. :-)
| vintermann wrote:
| Most of them are, but the reason why (in the words of
| YouTuber Ahoy) piracy has such an awesome soundtrack, is that
| the cracking groups grew out of the Commodore scene.
| underlipton wrote:
| Yup. I learned about it way after the fact, but you have
| the cracker scene, which crosses over with tracker
| enthusiasts and produces demoscene in the 80s/90s.
| Demoscene crosses over with a lot of early PC game dev,
| which loops us back around to crackers. The next gen picks
| up the echoes of this stuff through keygens and romhacks,
| and we eventually get stuff like Barkley Gaiden (whose
| theme song remixed the Space Jam theme with a mod from a
| tracker composer who went on to cofound Swedish House
| Mafia) and Undertale (which is the culmination of a
| stupidly-interesting chain of chiptune/indie game dev
| influences).
| amiga386 wrote:
| > a tracker composer who went on to cofound Swedish House
| Mafia
|
| Axwell aka Quazar:
|
| * http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Protracker/Quazar/
|
| * http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Fasttracker%202/Quaz
| ar/
| jstarfish wrote:
| Dubmood managed to get a song onto the Hotline Miami
| soundtrack ("Richard").
| amiga386 wrote:
| Most of them are. The first two things this site played at me
| was the fruit machine music from Superfrog (Amiga, 1993,
| Allister Brimble) [0], then the DisIsSid#3 intro (Amiga,
| 1996, Manfred Linzer) [1]
|
| That's not to say that crackers and musicians don't mingle.
| While there was not only music made for games, demos, intros,
| musicdisks and other demoscene productions, there was
| certainly a lot of chiptunes commissioned for or widely
| spread by cracktros, with the musicians' support
|
| In one particularly interesting case, Mark Knight [2] got a
| permanent job as a musician for the game company Mindscape,
| and he could hear his own music, [3] that he'd given to Melon
| Dezign and had been used by their cracking friends Crystal
| for the cracktro [4][5] to their crack of Mindscape's game,
| Moonstone [6]
|
| > I received a call from Richard Leinfellner at Mindscape
| offering me some freelance work, converting the Wing
| Commander music for the Amiga. I snapped it up and when
| (almost) completed, he offered me a full-time position as in-
| house composer.
|
| > It could have been the shortest career in history when,
| during the first week, I heard one of my chiptunes playing in
| the production office. Mindscape had just released Moonstone,
| and had downloaded a copy from a bbs. I stuck my head around
| to see why they were playing my tune, and quickly saw that
| the crack intro introducing Moonstone was playing. I silently
| shuffled out, went back to my room, and shut the door very
| worried about the consequences of this.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfrog
|
| [1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3416
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Knight_(musician)
|
| [3] https://marktdkknight.bandcamp.com/track/maintheme-2-orig
| ina...
|
| [4] http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=7902
|
| [5] https://flashtro.com/crystal-moonstone/
|
| [6] https://archive.org/details/AmigaDownload/page/n259/mode/
| 2up...
| dark-star wrote:
| not all are XM, some are s3m (ScreamTracker 3) ;-)
| vhold wrote:
| For the fun of it: jq '.[]["songs"][].file
| | match("\\.([^.]+)$") | .captures[0].string' songs.json -r
| | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr 3169 xm 1011
| mod 226 it 86 s3m 4 nsf 3
| rad 2 amd 2 S3M 1 mtm
| janci wrote:
| I included keygen music into internal license key generator tool.
| That was fun easter egg
| nottorp wrote:
| The site greets me with "Your browser vendor has disabled
| autoplay". Nope, I have disabled autoplay.
|
| This may be a music player, but please don't play anything
| without my permission...
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Agreed. I have disabled autoplay. _Pray_ I don 't disable it
| further, music player website.
| cfq wrote:
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608
|
| This is the X-Out loader music by Chris Hulsbeck, which you can
| find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqadZEIAU8
|
| I used to have this keygen and I'd leave it on to loop all day in
| the background while I worked circa ~2005.
| no_time wrote:
| Good stuff although it sounds different from any other player
| I've heard.
|
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835 goes hard.
| StingyJelly wrote:
| It plays in stereo! Others I've heard were mono. Maybe there
| are more differences.
| zokier wrote:
| Here is another player that imho sounds bit better:
| http://keygenmusic.tk/#track=AiR/AiR%20-%20Synapse%20Audio%2...
| WirelessGigabit wrote:
| Growing up in Belgium there was a lot of techno / house /
| hardcore, specially because of the large hardcore scene in the
| Netherlands. So this definitely was my music of choice
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2xYLdtNls
|
| That whole channel brings back memories. Good and bad.
| skilled wrote:
| Nice site!
|
| From add_on.css, /* player specific
| positioning of the displayed 'frequency spectrum', etc
| NOTE: the reflection and position handling is a fucking
| nightmare: The Chome idiots like to change their dumbshit
| implementation with almost every minor release.. each time
| breaking what had to be used before.. bunch of clueless morons!
| (Their latest achievement: reflection suddenly disapears (border
| and all) AS SOON as JavaScript draws to the contained
| canvas. Of course they are also too dumb to use regular
| font definitions anymore.)
|
| */
| grishka wrote:
| Ha, I remember how easily I achieved a similar effect in Flash
| more than 10 years ago. It was easy because it was built as a
| web application platform from the beginning, not a word
| processor with some crazy macros bolted on top. But I am
| sometimes amazed at what people do with a platform so
| constrained.
|
| Yep, it's been this many years and the modern CSS/JS still
| hasn't caught up with Flash.
| noduerme wrote:
| Had a hard time getting it to work in Firefox, now it seems to
| be down as I'm trying to load it in Chrome. I'm confused, the
| little sliders in canvas look fine, why would Chrome change
| anything about what shows up inside a <canvas> tag other than
| potentially messing with the scaling?
|
| [edit] ah, I see, there are several canvases that are supposed
| to horizontally align. Yeh. Just take over the whole damn page
| and draw it on a single canvas, I'd say. Flash Player 2023.
| politelemon wrote:
| It's working perfectly fine for me in FF, tried both desktop
| and mobile.
| WirelessGigabit wrote:
| I remember going through this journey of pirating software.
|
| Eventually, as software started to receive updates, keygens were
| more interesting as those things didn't break when an update was
| applied (or the update failed because a checksum mismatch of some
| exe / dll.
|
| For games, keygens and cracks were needed to bypass the original
| disc requirement. One could try to image the disc with Alcohol
| 120% which as able to retain the information needed to pass the
| disc checks. The output images were of the MDX [1] format. But
| those images were the size of your disc. So you had your
| installed game (e.g. 8.5GB) and now the image.
|
| Eventually some people were able to create a 'fixed' image of the
| disc. I don't know if it was just an MDX with pointers to
| nothing, or whether this had to be done on a game-by-game basis.
| I can't link to anything here but searching for 'no-cd fixed
| image' explains this better.
|
| You'd then mount those images with Alcohol 120% to play the game.
|
| Later on more detections popped up and I remember having to use
| Daemon Tools as it employed more sophisticated measures to hide
| it from the games.
|
| Also, I foolishly registered on Daemon Tools' website and to this
| day I get spam at daemontools@<mydomain>.<tld>...
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File
| cracka wrote:
| Not bad, but it's not searchable, it doesn't credit the
| musicians, and there are loads of classic tracks missing.
| pixelpoet wrote:
| The nostalgia pang when a familiar track from some ancient demo
| or keygen comes on is unreal... those truly were the days <3
| nebula8804 wrote:
| Wow I just got smacked in the face hard by nostalgia. Man where
| did the time go? Thanks for the share!
| nneonneo wrote:
| Try out the "classic" player for a cooler UI:
| https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/
| wiradikusuma wrote:
| Not directly related to the music. But I noticed that most games
| that I s/pirated/borrowed when I was young, I then bought them
| legally (on Steam/GOG, but when on sale) when I started making
| money (have a job). I don't even play them again, just the sense
| of "owning" them makes it worth buying. I don't know what to call
| this phenomenon. Guilt?
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Convenience. Steam is immoral DRM but there's no question it
| provides a good service. It's essentially a package manager for
| Windows. There's a reason people don't even remember the days
| when they had to download and apply multiple 500 MB incremental
| patches on a crappy connection just to play online.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| Great stuff. Started at #1 - am waiting for my Wavestation
| keyboard keygen to come up. I can't believe I paid with a card to
| a well-cool site based in Albania (warez.al? something like
| that): they delivered and I became an irregular customer.
|
| I have since, legally purchased all the Korg Vintage items :-)
| Those were the real 'try before you [can afford to] buy' days.
| gliixo wrote:
| Best track is Marble (R2R Ableton) hands down
| https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724
| kortex wrote:
| Oh man, this is a nostalgia bomb. I wish this had a search
| feature, so I can't find my favorite one, though I'm sure it's on
| there. Author if you are here, I'd love the ability to search,
| rather than scroll through thousands in a drop-down on mobile.
|
| Unreel Superhero 3. I think it was off a keygen for Sony ACID,
| propellerheads Reason, or Daemontools, can't remember which.
|
| https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0
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