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Music disk, or '''musicdisk''', is a term used by the Demoscene to describe a collection of songs made on a computer. They are essentially the computer equivalent of a Music Album . A music disk is typically packaged in the form of a program with a custom User Interface , so the listener does not need other software to play the songs. The "disk" part of the term comes from the fact that music disks were once made to fit on a single Floppy Disk , so they could be easily distributed between friends and at Demo Parties . On modern Platforms , music disks are usually downloaded to a Hard Disk Drive . Songs in a music disk are typically composed with a Tracker , a type of program popular in the demoscene. Amiga music disks usually consist of MOD files, while PC music disks often contain multichannel formats such as XM or IT . Music disks are also common on the Commodore 64 and Atari ST , where they use the native SID and YM formats, respectively. Related terms include music pack, which can refer to a demoscene music collection that does ''not'' include its own player, and '''chipdisk''', a music disk containing only Chiptune s, which have become popular on the PC given the large size of MP3 music disks. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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