Rhythm Nation
2022-08-18 20:55:34.718234+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Tara over at ResearchBuzz tagged me in this bit of amusement: Old laptop hard drives will allegedly crash when exposed to Janet Jackson music
The issue was also apparently partially resolved by the PC manufacturer at the time. Chen says the company addressed the problem "by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback." This wouldn't completely fix things since these laptops' hard drives would still crash if they were exposed to another device that was playing the song. But "Rhythm Nation" had apparently declined enough in popularity by the early 2000s that the issue didn't become a widespread problem.