See, it's little things like this that made Windows 2000 my all-time favorite version of Windows. It has as much personality as Windows 98 SE minus a ton of unreliability. By the time XP rolled around, they had made the OS so corporate and safe that while it had class, it was less 'personable'
A while back I was playing Half-life on Steam, and every so often a classical madrigal would start playing, with oddly familiar voices. A truly strange bug; I couldn't think of any good reason for it.
Months later, I opened my computer's DVD drive for once, and discovered the reason: my sister, a professional classical singer, had sent me one of her recordings, and I had put it in the computer to listen and forgotten about it for the next year.
Somehow the game was--from its original on-cd release--assuming the proper soundtrack was on track N of the CD, instead of the Steam install.
Remarkably simple in the end, but a very baffling bug at first.
I think a lot of games used to play tracks on the CD unit if you put an audio CD, so you could listen to your own music while playing. I think even some Playstation games did it, not sure if that's common nowadays.
Usually it came down to the game CDs themselves acting as actual Redbook CDs, though not fully standards compliant. It was easier just to store some normal songs like that then use one of the rather poor compression standards of the time
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 28.2 ms ] threadMonths later, I opened my computer's DVD drive for once, and discovered the reason: my sister, a professional classical singer, had sent me one of her recordings, and I had put it in the computer to listen and forgotten about it for the next year.
Somehow the game was--from its original on-cd release--assuming the proper soundtrack was on track N of the CD, instead of the Steam install.
Remarkably simple in the end, but a very baffling bug at first.