mirrorbird(00:58:48)
i maintain some very ancient archives of certain pages, and i have had to take stuff down because it was running 20year-old PHP and i didn't want to get hacked
HexaDecimator(00:57:38)
I uploaded an .xm recently that I could only find through an archive of the composer's dead file server
mirrorbird(00:57:30)
and let us take a moment to bless those demo makers who release their demo with the soundtrack in a separate file, even though in the actual demo it's probably compressed seven ways to wednesdays inside an exe
mirrorbird(00:56:56)
but when you find a "Missing" that is a common tracker format like MOD or XM you can usually dig em up and fix the whole artist. if you are willing to waste half an hour, like wot i am
mirrorbird(00:56:21)
i'm fascinated by the weird songs (maybe people who weren't even good enough for modarchive) where we seem to have lost the last existing copy. like the dodo
mirrorbird(00:55:44)
...more. others were recovered by some absolute geniuses taking pieces of recorded streams -- sometimes they are a bit off, with crap in them... ahhh... it's sad there's still so much mess.