Janet Jackson's vocals are said to have the same effect on old laptop hard drives as an opera singer on glass.
In the early
2000s, software developers were hard at work delivering the most up-to-date programs for the latest laptop models. In hindsight, many of them were clunky and slow, although they got the job done.
“It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen shared in a Microsoft blog post. “The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.”
The hard drives in question have since been phased out, so the special filter is no longer needed, and “Rhythm Nation” is no longer a threat to the electronics industry. “I’m sure they put a digital version of a “Do not remove” sticker on that audio filter,” Chen said, adding: “Though I’m worried that in the many years since the workaround was added, nobody remembers why it’s there.
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