Not sure if this means we should dig out our tinfoil hats or not. Dang
aliens should realize how tricky it is to play a song backwards in a cd
player.
Jerry
On Dec 07, 2004, at 10:07 PM, Bill Micou wrote:
> I think I know -
> while the disc was being burned and you enjoyed your beer, aliens
> beamed you up to their mother ship for the normal experiments. It was
> at this time that they chose you for a special important message to be
> delivered to planet earth. They were very unsure of how to inform you
> of the message until they realized what you were doing at the time of
> the abduction. Since they are a higher intelligence, they were
> familiar with a Mac and understood how to add a song to your playlist.
> My bet is that song, if played slowly backwards in your cd player,
> will be all the instructions we need for world peace. You are one
> lucky human!
>
> (sorry... Holiday stress is causing me to lose control at times)
> A better guess is when you transfered song 10 into your mac, somehow
> it grabbed 11 also, but it seems like you would be able to see it.
> Bill Micou
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Neal Hammon wrote:
>
>> To other Mac owners who sometimes use iTunes to make CD-R music discs.
>>
>> Sunday I decided to made a new record of various tunes which were in
>> my library folder. I opened a new playlist, named it, and proceeded
>> to shuffle tunes from my library list to the new playlist. I put on
>> 23 tunes which iTunes said would cover 1:16 minutes, well with in the
>> limit of the disc. I pushed the record button, and when prompted to
>> do so, added the CD, and recorded the playlist. While it was
>> recording, I opened a beer.
>>
>> Not long afterward, I put this new CD-R into a disc player, to see if
>> it turned out OK. Much to my surprise, somehow an extra tune appeared
>> on the finished record. The really strange thing about this record,
>> is that it is not even in my library!
>>
>> The only connection with this orphan song that mysteriously appeared
>> (the tune was Swinging on a Star by Bing Crosby) is that I had put
>> another tune into my library several hours before from the same
>> commercial CD, this being Bing?s version of Deep in the Heart of
>> Texas. The latter was number 11 on the commercial disc, whereas the
>> former was number 10. I checked my library tune list several times; I
>> have only one Bing Crosby song, and it is Deep in the Heart of Texas.
>>
>> Monday I decided to make another recording from the same playlist,
>> and volla- it was perfect. It did not include the orphan version of
>> Swinging on a Star.
>>
>> Normally I would think that I just lost my senses, but I played the
>> first recording three times, and the orphan song is still present. It
>> took the number five spot, between two other tunes on my playlist. I
>> should also mention that the playlist did not include the other Bing
>> Crosby song that is in my library.
>>
>> No big deal, as I only wasted a cheap CD and five minutes of time,
>> but the mystery has me puzzled, and I would like to know how it
>> happened, Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Neal Hammon
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