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Musical rodents --------------- There is music on gopher. Not heaps, but more than one might expect. I've long known that jynx[1] has a few of his own songs available from the root of his gopherhole. During the great SDF phlog listing disaster of 2018, I visited a few old gopherholes and phlogs I otherwise wouldn't have, and found a gopherhole on SDF associated with "Higher living records", which had a handful of tracks[2]. Using Veronica, I realised that Yin Feng has quite a bit of music available too[3]. I think this is quite nice, and so I've made sure that if you have mpg123 and ogg123 installed, VF-1 will work well with the majority of this music. Of course, it's not a super smooth experience. The entire mp3 or ogg file is downloaded to a temp file first, and *then* it's played. If the file is large or the server is slow, there will be a very noticable delay before you hear anything. I also put a little bit of music in my own gopherhole[4]. Mostly, it's the self-titled album by "God Ate My Homework". GAMH[5] were a cheesy low-fi student band in the late 90s who were one of the first bands to give all their music away for free online. I somehow discovered their music probably sometime around 2000. The music itself is nothing special at all, but I enjoyed their silly song lyrics, many of which revolve around late 90s/early 00s internet culture (e.g. the song "I Saw Bill Gates on IRC"). After I originally downloaded this album, I lost it at some point. Occasionally some random coindicdence would remind me of them, and I'd do a Google to see if I could find any trace of them. Nothing. But after enough years had passed, one day I did the search and suddenly there was a page for them at archive.org, and everything avilable as mp3 or ogg. The internet rarely forgets forever. Anybody else want to share any really obscure music on port 70? I became a MetaARPA SDF member a week back or so, which means now I can run cron jobs on SDF. I'm tempted to write a daily script to put the most recent episode of every aNONradio show in my gopherhole, just for fun. Feel free to beat me to this, if you are keen. [1] gopher://gopher.leveck.us:70/1/ [2] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/soolmaan/higherlivingrecords [3] gopher://tomatobodhi.twilightparadox.com:70/1/music [4] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/solderpunk/files/music/ [5] https://archive.org/details/iuma-god_ate_my_homework