[HN Gopher] Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine
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       Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine
        
       Author : gaws
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2023-05-01 12:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.northkoreatech.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.northkoreatech.org)
        
       | juujian wrote:
       | Of course the Chinese song is Little Apple, I should have known.
       | The most ubiquitous Chinese song ever, soon 10 years running. So
       | ubiquitous, it has an English wikipedia article:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Apple_(song)
       | 
       | Knowing that's the song, I am no longer surprised it made it to
       | North Korea.
        
         | ranger_danger wrote:
         | the history of Chinese songs only goes back 10 years?
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | Is there a torrent of the whole collection? I don't see a way to
       | do that from the IA page, only for single videos.
        
         | porphyra wrote:
         | I wish there was some way to get Chinese karaoke songs in the
         | US apart from spending hundreds on importing a physical karaoke
         | machine. All the apps such as Quan Min KGe  are region-locked,
         | and the songs on YouTube vary in quality --- they often do not
         | have properly timed lyrics and are rarely the instrumental
         | version without the vocals, and newer or less popular songs are
         | nowhere to be found at all.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | TIL about the CNC song:
       | https://archive.org/details/tianchi-v700-ktv-940280
        
         | doublerabbit wrote:
         | Beautiful. NK can keep those three minutes and nine seconds of
         | my life I lost watching that.
        
         | Waterluvian wrote:
         | I was going to ask about translations but I've realized that I
         | don't want them. I want to enjoy the mystery and wonder.
        
           | betamaxthetape wrote:
           | If you are interested in the translations, another copy of
           | the video [0] on YouTube has baked-in English translations.
           | 
           | Disclaimer: I don't speak Korean, so cannot vouch for their
           | accuracy!
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           | [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPlTX2a974
        
         | traceroute66 wrote:
         | >TIL about the CNC song
         | 
         | If you want to see it performed on-stage in all its glory,
         | including live orchestra....
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if60FlQ2FEo
        
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