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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by HelloUsername on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:32PM (#46470831)
Just tried this in Reaper. It's actually much closer to 123.47

Anyway that album, Discovery, is full of funny bits. Track #11 Veridis Quo sounds like "very disco". Turn those two words around, and you got the album's title.

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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by rightbyte on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:55PM (#46471028)
Did you mark or like did a FFT of some sort?
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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by HelloUsername on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:00PM (#46471068)
I imported the .wav track from the CD, manually put the BPM on 123.45, cut the first 21 seconds intro out (easier to sync on the main beat), and from there started dragging the track and adjusting the BPM, so that the first bar of the song and the last bar of the song were still on beat. My findings is that it's somewhere between .47 and .48
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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by kupopuffs on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:32PM (#46472821)
that part you bit off could account for the difference?
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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by analog31 on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:17PM (#46472745)
That would be about 160 ppm off, more than I'd expect if the track was recorded digitally and set to 123.45
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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by bargainbin on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:20PM (#46481706)
I’ve listened to this album so many times and cannot believe I’ve never noticed Veridis Quo is literally Very Disco.
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Re:Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, ... by lajarre on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:04AM (#46489217)
in verlan, Discovery is pronounced “verydisco”
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