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What fucking song is this karaoke for?


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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



kinda speedran it and it's been a while since i read the previous volumes. but here's my first thoughts anyway.

kinda feels... unfinished? like i get it's an ongoing manga but i feel like the previous volumes had more of a narrative arc to them? idk. it just feels like it sets up a bunch of things and then... ends? not very satisfying.

here's to hoping it's just packed into volumes weird and it'll work better when you read volume 9 after this (whenever that comes out in english)


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