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Online Collection of Keygen Music
- throaway5454 1y agoI forgot about this site! Keygen music is one of our unsung cultural treasures imo
- stuckkeys 1y agoThat is awesome.
- charcircuit 1y ago>There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens Does this mean this site properly licensed these songs?
- 1970-01-01 1y agoYes, I believe it does. No lawyer knows who the hell these underground artists are or if it is even possible to sue them. The first step in any lawsuit is have someone to take from.
- dehrmann 1y agoIt's actually the artists who can sue since it's their work being distributed. The distributor might have a fair use argument since the purpose is artistic preservation and the artists clearly never intended to profit off the songs. If a trendy DJ remixed one and it saw commercial success, the original artist might have a case.
- charcircuit 1y agoThe fair use exception for preservation doesn't give them the master or mechanical rights needed to stream them to other people.
- iamtedd 1y agoThe fact that their music was originally distributed uncontrollably and for free within keygens and cracks probably means that the artists don't care about sites like this.
- jimmydoe 1y agobrought back lots of nice memories
- glimshe 1y agoGreat memories. "Keygen music" feels like a genre of electronic music... Are there people making electronic music that sounds like Keygen music but with modern instruments?
- nvllsvm 1y agomind.in.a.box's album "R.E.T.R.O." (2010) has a few songs that sound keygen-esque (aka chiptune). Not all their stuff sounds like that, but I've been a big fan since first discovering them via a sample included in the XMMS2 media player way back in the early 2000's.
- lock1 1y agoTracker music? Pretty sure communities that develop those tools and use them to create music still exist. Relevant link: Ahoy - Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
- webstrand 1y agoWell, there's still people making still making chiptunes, and there's still interest in developing tracker technology both for chiptunes (i.e. OpenMPT) and for music composition in general (Renoise DAW). <https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/modern-closure https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/modern-closure> came out in 2019 and is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I'm not sure that it fits all of the elements of "keygen music" which are hard to pin down.
- JdeBP 1y agoIt's a whole YouTube genre. Witness this chiptune version of Howard Carter's Stand-up Maths Theme: * https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHiJpwrLCUA https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHiJpwrLCUA
- iamtedd 1y agoWhile not strictly on-topic, this is another great re-arrangement of the Stand-up Maths Theme. https://youtu.be/PtKhbbcc1Rc?t=50 https://youtu.be/PtKhbbcc1Rc?t=50
- chrisco23 1y agoHa! Memories from 25 years ago when you had to run Windoze for your audio and sometimes chess software.
- JdeBP 1y agoMore than 25 years. The first thing that it played to me was Crockett's Theme. I spent the first few seconds looking at the description, which said something else, and saying to myself "No, that's definitely Crockett's Theme.".
- nocoiner 1y agoHaha, nice. I searched and there’s one keygen that also played Crockett’s Theme, but at least it credited it. Then another one I shuffled to was the theme from Airwolf.
- JdeBP 1y agoThese are pretty much staples for any synthesizer music collection that ever was. There's going to be an Axel F in there somewhere, too. And possibly Chariots of Fire. I was amused that Crockett's Theme was the very first one played to me. Alas, I didn't note the sompletely unrelated title before closing the page, and have no clue now where it is in the collection.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoWhat MOD producers at my high school used in the mid 90's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker
- fortydegrees 1y agoI've been looking for that Paradox Photoshop CS2 one for years. Great nostalgic memories. I've always been in slight awe of these kind of teams/releases. Cracking (mostly) for the raw intellectual challenge and bundling it with demoscene-ish artistic expression - usually a unique UI and obviously a great chiptune. I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..
- bryant 1y ago> I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged.. Speculating: there may be parallels between this and other fields with entirely unnecessary artistic expression. Think watchmaking where watch movements with superlative finishing are celebrated and often command premium pay (e.g watches with the Geneva Seal). Beyond a certain point, the finishing adds absolutely nothing to the watch aside from showcasing talent. There's something to the idea that if someone spent a ton of effort building something, even if it's superfluous, it garners a level of trust in the end product.
- x______________ 1y ago>Speculating: Know your customer
- xyst 1y agoI used to hang in those IRC channels. Some of the "crews" mentioned spending more time on creating graphics, mixing new sound rather than cracking/reverse engineering the software itself.
- sim7c00 1y agohaha mind you a lot of (not all tho!) cracks back in the day was a few nops , changing a je into jne, etc. not the most elaborate things.
- daneel_w 1y ago>I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged.. Because they share the same roots, the same general "scene". The demo groups and the crack groups always mingled. We were all "sceners". Tons of groups had a presence in both areas. Most of the graphic artists and musicians were mainly part of the demo scene but lent their talent here and there. (Computer-wise I grew up in the C64 and the Amiga demo scenes during the early-to-late 90s.)
- mdavid626 1y agoReally cool!
- djeastm 1y agoThis music was always great, but always played so loudly.
- dkh 1y agoI felt the same way, but admittedly the scenario in which I would encounter it was always “in a dark, quiet room at 3am after downloading something and forgetting once again that the .exe is probably going to play music”
- darknavi 1y agoSeems to be missing one of my most nostalgic from Sony Vegas 9 cracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdprbBOMT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdprbBOMT8
- Sayrus 1y agoThe music might be over a decade old but it still plays. I heard it in Infinitode 2 released in 2021.
- SuperShibe 1y ago„This is EPIC“ - King Harkinian
- swinglock 1y agoUnreal Superhero 3! I'm also fond of the ORiON Nero tracks for some reason. Also dubmood.
- mavamaarten 1y agoThat's exactly the one I searched first!
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- officeplant 1y agoImpressive collection, the although website is slamming my poor T8100 powered thinkpad to 100% at times listening to the collection.
- kls0e 1y agotry Estrayk - Her Collection
- pie_flavor 1y agoAn album of keygen music covers and remixes: https://sgfr.highquality.rip/sgfr-0009/index.html https://sgfr.highquality.rip/sgfr-0009/index.html
- irusensei 1y ago"I've opened that site and the activate windows watermark on my desktop vanished." I'm joking. I don't use Windows.
- EDM115 1y agoas covered in this YouTube video : "The Soundtrack of Online Piracy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgcrdv8zpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgcrdv8zpM)
- larodi 1y ago2621 is sa remix of Bubble Bobble II gameplay music.
- cluckindan 1y agoIf you like this kinda music, check out 4champ and modizer on iOS.
- daneel_w 1y agoI always considered this the real deal and authorative collection of chip tunes: https://ftp.modland.com/ https://ftp.modland.com/ Modland is over 20 years old at this point.
- doublerabbit 1y agoOh nice. I'll check this when I get home. I personally use: https://modarchive.org https://modarchive.org which has a grand selection too.
- joecool1029 1y agoWild they still have a .tk domain, I paid for one and when renewal came up it was not possible to renew due to the Meta lawsuit. Wonder how much time they have left....
- sdenton4 1y agoSharpPlus Sqlite Developer v3.2.8.354 goes hard.
- anthk 1y agoThe S3M modules which came with the BB demo from AAlib were magical.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoAalib <3. Last year, I wrote a diff to fix the fire aalib console demo to work on modern fast machines.
- anthk 1y agoBB needs a fix too; it hangs when the audio begins to play. It might be an issue on threads.
- markus_zhang 1y agoI just wish it has a loop option. I absolutely love the design and varieties of the music.
- mr-ron 1y agoSeriously!!! One of the biggest points of keygen is they loop indefinitely. Dont play them like songs. Get in the trance.
- mdtrooper 1y agoRelated, there is a awesome online radio (it was born 2006) game music: https://rainwave.cc https://rainwave.cc
- fao_ 1y agoin a similar vein, there's also Nectarine Radio for demoscene music: https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/ https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/
- burnt-resistor 1y agoSomeone should gather up, curate, organize, and release a giant collection of keygens containing music as a torrent. (I doubt IA or elsewhere would host it for very long.)
- larodi 1y agoGiven intros (where these keygen chiptunes originate from) were the precursor for, and are also considered by many to be part thereof, the demoscene, are we to assume this is also a UNESCO cultural heritage as per these news headlines... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533362 ...?
- amiga386 1y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20211204202302/http://pub.keygenmusic.org/music_pack/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211204202302/http://pub.keygen... https://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/ https://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/ https://amp.dascene.net/ https://amp.dascene.net/ https://files.scene.org/browse/music/ https://files.scene.org/browse/music/
- cantalopes 1y agoSo cool! I used to collect the ones i came across too, they are always awesome
- dogcow 1y agoThis is amazing. Thank you so much to the authors for putting the time into this and sharing it. I would love a way to download a local archive of music like this. Also, I hope this site doesn't disappear if/when the rather unpredictable .tk TLD operator decides to do something dumb.
- montag 1y agoWow, very nice! Interestingly, uses a completely different set of player libraries compared to https://chiptune.app https://chiptune.app (chiptune2.js and libopenmpt vs. libgme and libxmp, etc.) Also was started way back in 2015. And yet there are many similarities.
- swoorup 1y agoNostalgic xD
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- panicpigeon 1y agoThis made me remember my favorite cracktro from INC. Something about this song captures how I felt about the whole "warez" scene when I was a kid... cool, mysterious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9-5bQ4mSQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9-5bQ4mSQI
- WeZzyNL 1y agoI totally get what you mean, this one is what conveyed that same feeling for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyjeTZn2K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyjeTZn2K8
- twothreeone 1y agomr spock's cryo-bed <3
- lukesdadsdad 1y agoDidn't really understand what keygen music meant until I did a Google, clicked, outstanding archiving
- globular-toast 1y agoAh, memories from when the internet was still good. Anyone know of any good writing about that time on the internet? IRC, FTP, USENET etc? There was a miniseries called "The Scene" which captured some of it. Some of it is just childhood memories, but I'm also convinced it was a special time that won't be coming back.
- kekebo 1y agoI apologize for shortness but <3
- a022311 1y agoYou also may find this interesting: https://pixeltune.org https://pixeltune.org They have a large collection of tracker music and while it's not strictly keygen music it is still worth looking at.
- sim7c00 1y agoYESSS <3 699 :D happy to see Air on there haha
- joseda-hg 1y agoReally nice, only thing missing is, the site load starting a random tune at like 300% volume late at night, for the full experience
- wackget 1y agoThis one lives rent free in my head: https://keygenmusic.tk/#track=ORiON/ORiON%20-%20Nero%206.3.0.2.xm https://keygenmusic.tk/#track=ORiON/ORiON%20-%20Nero%206.3.0...
- 74B5 1y agoSomething to evict it: https://keygenmusic.tk/#track=Reloaded/RELOADED%20-%20Serious%20Sam%20HD%20The%20First%20Encounte%20installer.mod https://keygenmusic.tk/#track=Reloaded/RELOADED%20-%20Seriou...
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- darqis 1y agoFlashbacks to the 90s and y2k. The internet was a better place back then and not just because of nostalgic reasons. Nowadays you have a few large companies dominating everything. There are no forums, there's reddit and discord. The are no private websites, there's uniform Meta Twitter. Google search sucks. Everything is AI. Toxicity is rampant. Pirate sites, the few are full of racists and other assholes. The communication on "social networks" is post, like, comment, like, next. You may not speak your mind, including HN, you get censored and/or otherwise canceled. And this whole thing bleeds into real life. People are edgy, dissatisfied, unfriendly, can't take criticism, even if it's constructive.
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- GlacierFox 1y agoThe fact you didn't that is depressing in itself.
- nvllsvm 1y ago> Nowadays you have a few large companies dominating everything. We now also have a web where ActiveX, the Windows-only IE browser engine, and Flash+Shockwave binaries are no longer exist as mainstream web technologies. As a Linux user, this is great! > There are no forums, there's reddit and discord. > The are no private websites, there's uniform Meta Twitter. Incorrect. I regularly read the VOGONS forum (https://www.vogons.org/ https://www.vogons.org/) for retro computing related topics. Is the forum for you? Maybe, maybe not. There are plenty of others as well though many are specific to niches. Hacker News is also a kind of forum. Focus on what you want to get out of a forum rather than a forum for the sake of a forum. > Google search sucks. Yeah, modern Google search really sucks. I often find ChatGPT or Claude better at fuzzy-finding than modern search engines. Depends on what I'm looking for. > Everything is AI. AI as a concept has existed in marketing for decades. The term has picked up again and todays LLM's will probably seem quite dumb in a decade. They're great fuzzy-finders though - I regularly use Claude for various dev tasks including DOS and embedded development. > Toxicity is rampant. I have a childhood memory, early 90's, where the news was on the TV talking about a bombing/attack/similar in the middle east. It's a fuzzy memory, but it continues having a strong impact on my life with regards to negativity in the world. Things have always sucked, will continue to suck, but likewise for the opposite. Focusing on what is in my control and positive has helped me a lot here. > Pirate sites, the few are full of racists and other assholes. I can't say I've ever spent enough time on pirate sites to bother with conversation. Plenty of these sites continue to exist and media is still aquireable. I'm amused anytime _someone I know_ finds a 10-year-plus old torrent that still has seeders. Side note, there's even a modern, open-source keygen for older versions of Windows available on GitHub that has not been taken down (user Endermanch). It even has keygen music! > You may not speak your mind, including HN, you get censored and/or otherwise canceled. _Someone I know_ has been a life-long pirate and has always had this problem with regards to pirating things. > And this whole thing bleeds into real life. People are edgy, dissatisfied, unfriendly, can't take criticism, even if it's constructive. Some people suck, some don't. I was lightly bullied through my entire childhood so this was kind of the status-quo for me. However, my friends were an exception and they were and still are great! The only recent change I've noticed in my socialsphere is a change in family members for the worst. One side of my family went down the path of becoming pushy Grumpelstiltskin's, so I did have to make a choice to remove them from my life. The keyword for me was pushy, not necessiarily a difference of opinion. It was difficult to cut off contact, but doing so allowed me to spend mental energy on people who have positive impacts on my life. The internet became less of a place for people like us as the rest of the world embraced it. This does extend beyond the web as even culture is more varied than ever (music, shows, memes, etc). It might take more work to find what fits you, but it's still out there.
- 29athrowaway 1y agoA more proper name for this music is chiptunes. Unless it was produced for an actual key generator.
- imiric 1y agoGreat collection! My favorites from this era: - DataChild of SAE - Tune 1[1] - Zoef of FAiRLiGHT - Tune 2[2] They're from a CLASS installer of THPS2. Allegedly :) [1]: https://archive.org/details/DatachildOfSae-Tune1 https://archive.org/details/DatachildOfSae-Tune1 [2]: https://archive.org/details/ZoefOfFlt-Tune2 https://archive.org/details/ZoefOfFlt-Tune2
- bestham 1y agoAryx.s3m 21 kiB of magic.
- hamhock666 1y agoKind of ironic there is no download button!