[HN Gopher] Unlocking North Korean songs on a karaoke machine ___________________________________________________________________ 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! | | [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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-02 23:00 UTC)