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Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)

150 points by BenFeldman1930 3y ago

janci 3y ago
I included keygen music into internal license key generator tool. That was fun easter egg
skilled 3y ago
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.) */
- noduerme 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    It's working perfectly fine for me in FF, tried both desktop and mobile.
- grishka 3y ago
  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.
nebula8804 3y ago
Wow I just got smacked in the face hard by nostalgia. Man where did the time go? Thanks for the share!
no_time 3y ago
Good stuff although it sounds different from any other player I've heard. https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835 goes hard.
- zokier 3y ago
  Here is another player that imho sounds bit better: http://keygenmusic.tk/#track=AiR/AiR%20-%20Synapse%20Audio%20Dune%201.x%20kg.mod http://keygenmusic.tk/#track=AiR/AiR%20-%20Synapse%20Audio%2...
- StingyJelly 3y ago
  It plays in stereo! Others I've heard were mono. Maybe there are more differences.
- WirelessGigabit 3y ago
  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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2xYLdtNls That whole channel brings back memories. Good and bad.
codetrotter 3y ago
I remember FFF keygens and NFO files. Their name meant “Fighting For Fun” :D
doublerabbit 3y ago
Other resources: http://keygenmusic.org http://keygenmusic.org -- A hugh library of keygen music http://modarchive.org http://modarchive.org -- Site for Tracker Musicians
Mizza 3y ago
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 3y ago
  I also had one in mind, which I found almost instantly. https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1735 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1735
InCityDreams 3y ago
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.
daneel_w 3y ago
Nitpicky factoid: the correct name for this type of music, as used in the scene where it originates from, is CHIP MUSIC or CHIPTUNES.
- vardump 3y ago
  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.
  - bananaboy 3y ago
    To be even nitpickier the tracker that makes XM files is called FastTracker2 ;)
    - vardump 3y ago
      Oh, you're absolutely right. :-)
  - vintermann 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      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).
jdangu 3y ago
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.
cfq 3y ago
https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608 This is the X-Out loader music by Chris Hülsbeck, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqadZEIAU8 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.
cracka 3y ago
Not bad, but it's not searchable, it doesn't credit the musicians, and there are loads of classic tracks missing.
pixelpoet 3y ago
The nostalgia pang when a familiar track from some ancient demo or keygen comes on is unreal... those truly were the days <3
nazgulsenpai 3y ago
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.
nottorp 3y ago
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 3y ago
  Agreed. I have disabled autoplay. Pray I don't disable it further, music player website.
gliixo 3y ago
Best track is Marble (R2R Ableton) hands down https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724
WirelessGigabit 3y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File
wiradikusuma 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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.
kortex 3y ago
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 https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0
- caladin 3y ago
  I definitely remember this one. It's good. I remember back around 2007 or so I got a huge collection of chiptune music off of Demonoid and it had a bunch of Razor1911 music among others that I'd listen to.
matheusmoreira 3y ago
Mega Man themes!!! https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884 I can't believe it!
nneonneo 3y ago
Try out the "classic" player for a cooler UI: https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/ https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/
- CodeArtisan 3y ago
  This one too. https://chiptune.app/ https://chiptune.app/ Also play MIDI (multiple sound fonts available) and retro consoles musics.

I included keygen music into internal license key generator tool. That was fun easter egg

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.) */

noduerme 3y ago
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 3y ago
  It's working perfectly fine for me in FF, tried both desktop and mobile.
grishka 3y ago
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.

nebula8804 3y ago

Wow I just got smacked in the face hard by nostalgia. Man where did the time go? Thanks for the share!

no_time 3y ago

Good stuff although it sounds different from any other player I've heard. https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#835 goes hard.

zokier 3y ago
Here is another player that imho sounds bit better: http://keygenmusic.tk/#track=AiR/AiR%20-%20Synapse%20Audio%20Dune%201.x%20kg.mod http://keygenmusic.tk/#track=AiR/AiR%20-%20Synapse%20Audio%2...
StingyJelly 3y ago
It plays in stereo! Others I've heard were mono. Maybe there are more differences.
WirelessGigabit 3y ago
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2xYLdtNls That whole channel brings back memories. Good and bad.

codetrotter 3y ago

I remember FFF keygens and NFO files. Their name meant “Fighting For Fun” :D

doublerabbit 3y ago

Other resources: http://keygenmusic.org http://keygenmusic.org -- A hugh library of keygen music http://modarchive.org http://modarchive.org -- Site for Tracker Musicians

Mizza 3y ago

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 3y ago
I also had one in mind, which I found almost instantly. https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1735 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1735

InCityDreams 3y ago

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.

daneel_w 3y ago

Nitpicky factoid: the correct name for this type of music, as used in the scene where it originates from, is CHIP MUSIC or CHIPTUNES.

vardump 3y ago
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.
- bananaboy 3y ago
  To be even nitpickier the tracker that makes XM files is called FastTracker2 ;)
  - vardump 3y ago
    Oh, you're absolutely right. :-)
- vintermann 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    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).

jdangu 3y ago

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.

cfq 3y ago

https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2608 This is the X-Out loader music by Chris Hülsbeck, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqadZEIAU8 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.

cracka 3y ago

Not bad, but it's not searchable, it doesn't credit the musicians, and there are loads of classic tracks missing.

pixelpoet 3y ago

The nostalgia pang when a familiar track from some ancient demo or keygen comes on is unreal... those truly were the days <3

nazgulsenpai 3y ago

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.

nottorp 3y ago

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 3y ago
Agreed. I have disabled autoplay. Pray I don't disable it further, music player website.

gliixo 3y ago

Best track is Marble (R2R Ableton) hands down https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#2724

WirelessGigabit 3y ago

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File

wiradikusuma 3y ago

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 3y ago
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.

kortex 3y ago

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 https://youtu.be/9STiQ8cCIo0

caladin 3y ago
I definitely remember this one. It's good. I remember back around 2007 or so I got a huge collection of chiptune music off of Demonoid and it had a bunch of Razor1911 music among others that I'd listen to.

matheusmoreira 3y ago

Mega Man themes!!! https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884 https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/#1884 I can't believe it!

nneonneo 3y ago

Try out the "classic" player for a cooler UI: https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/ https://cable.ayra.ch/modplayer/

CodeArtisan 3y ago
This one too. https://chiptune.app/ https://chiptune.app/ Also play MIDI (multiple sound fonts available) and retro consoles musics.