Music Disk
Music Disk , or Musicdisk , is a term from the demo scene that describes a collection of songs that were created on a computer. They are essentially the counterpart of an album . A music disk usually consists of a program with its own user interface , which means that the listener does not need any additional software to play the songs. The term part of "Disk" is related to that music discs were once created so that they on a single floppy disk ( floppy disk to be easily exchanged between friends and on) fit Demoparties could be distributed. On modern platforms , music discs are commonly downloaded to a hard drive .
The songs on a music disc are usually composed using a tracker , a popular type of program in the demo scene. Amiga music discs usually consist of MOD files, while PC music discs often contain multi-channel formats such as XM or IT . Music disks are also common on the Commodore 64 and Atari ST , where they often use their own, native formats.
Related terms are Music Pack , which can refer to a demo scene music collection that does not contain its own playback software, and Chipdisk , a music disk that only contains chiptunes , which is popular on the PC because of its small size compared to MP3 were.