Apparently Janet Jackson’s top five Hot 100 hit 'Rhythm Nation' messes with certain computer hard drives, according to this Microsoft engineer.
But don’t throw Jackson’s classic hit off your playlists just yet: Manufacturers who made this 5400 rpm drive fixed the problem years ago by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline to remove these frequencies from songs like “Rhythm Nation” that can mess up the older hard drives.
Chen does note he is worried that “in the many years since the workaround was added, nobody remembers why [the filter is] there. Hopefully, their laptops are not still carrying this audio filter to protect against damage to a model of hard drive they are no longer using.”radio show, in which they tried to re-create the bug and were able to crash two of their test computers. “That’s spooky!” Kyle says as the laptop screens go black as “Rhythm Nation” blasts from the radio station’s speakers.
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