What does it even mean for a piece of music to be so long that no person could possibly listen to it? And supposedly you can download the entire piece and it’s only a few hundred kilobytes in size? Shouldn’t it take more atoms than exist in the universe to store a piece of music so large? Or is compression that effective?
EDIT: eg https://bullofheavendc.bandcamp.com/album/310-px0-2-18-5-18-p-k-k-k
As far as i can tell it’s not music, just a repeating sound effect, in which case compression van easily be that effective.
Yep, compression can do wonders. Let’s say a piece of data is
1010110010110101repeating10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10times in a row. (No I didn’t screw up my notation there, that is just a massive number)You cannot fit that piece of data on a hard drive uncompressed, yet I just communicated it to you in a compressed format and you can view the data accurately at any position.
Edit: That number in an easier to read format:
This could also be written as ¹⁰10
The music is stored in compressed form 7z, which as far as I can tell contains a few notes, a folder A that says “1000 x notes”, a folder B that says “1000 x A”, a folder C that says “1000 x B” etc in a long LONG string.
Except they made funnier folder names.
They didnt. Its a gimmick.
I don’t know about repeating or being able to have very long playtimes, but I do know the MIDI (.mid) file format can play songs at extremely small sizes compared to mp3 as it effectively stores the sound like music on a sheet which is played by a synthesizer. Also the MOD file format allows samples to be recorded as a sort of blend of synth and recordings.
