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What fucking song is this karaoke for?

the title of the disc is 'Lekker Lezen over Huisdieren' which roughly translates to 'Fun Reading about Pets'¹

update: i found a disc image and extracted the songs

anyway i can't find a disc image but i did find two mentions in the October 1995 and June 1996 issues of CD Interactief, a Dutch CD-i magazine.

looks like it's got a bunch of selected stories, at various reading levels, that all feature pets/animals. they probably picked that to fit with the theme of Dutch Children's Book Week 1995 ('Beestenbende' -- basically meaning 'animals'). and then it had songs, and a karaoke mode for those songs.

this seems to have been marketed to schools as another way to motivate kids to read more. because of course cd-i players were real fuckin' expensive. i don't know how successful they were -- by the time i was in elementary school, we mostly had old windows 3.11 machines for our edutainment software.

if someone finds a disc image of this, hmu, i wrote some tools to decode cd-i disc images and extracting audio from them is fairly trivial²

1. the word 'lekker' is kinda hard to translate because it can mean anything from 'tasty' to 'attractive' to 'relaxing'

2. pictures are slightly harder because there isn't really a standard picture format, so you need to either emulate or statically analyze the actual software to extract the decoder parameters (well, or guessing works sometimes). i should polish up/document these tools so i can release usable versions of them