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Searching for a music track that was on the Encarta app

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Wolgulc Posted messages 175 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
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Hello! I remembered a song I heard on the Encyclopaedia Encarta app. I can't recall the year, but it was between 1998 and 2002. The only things I remember are the tune of the song and that it appeared on an image of the Nice Carnival. And I remember using the app's virtual airplane mode that flew over the world. I don't know if it's a carnival song or a Niçoise (Nissart) song. Thanks in advance for your help.

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    funkyspot Posted messages 826 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   342
     
    Hello!

    Do you still have the original CD/DVD?
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    1. Wolgulc Posted messages 175 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   28
       
      Not unfortunately! Otherwise I would have found my answer without coming here ^^
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  2. funkyspot Posted messages 826 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   342
     
    Ah d'accord :)

    Est-ce que la musique en question était dans la partie "Images et musiques" d'un pays ?
    À partir de 5:35 dans cette vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuxtdLo4lWI

    Il y avait aussi des musiques dans la partie "Musiques du monde" vers 13:40.

    L'application que tu avais ressemblait à cette version (dans la vidéo) ?
    On peut voir le simulateur de vol vers 7:55.
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    1. Wolgulc Posted messages 175 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   28
       
      It was the same flight simulator, but I don’t remember this mode for flipping through pages for world music.
      It was a music that started playing as soon as we arrived on the Nice Carnival page.
      Otherwise I had already seen this video to search, but I found nothing for what I asked here ^^
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  3. Kobuddha Posted messages 46 Status Member 4
     
    Hi, so many Encarta memories! You’ll find here quite a few CDs from those years:

    https://archive.org/details/software?and=0&sin=

    I think you’ll be able to find your music there easily!
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    1. Wolgulc Posted messages 175 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   28
       
      I did some research and I couldn't find the audio in any format whatsoever of the music in question.
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  4. ludeb_0255
     

    Hello,

    you can also hum this tune for us on "vocaroo.com".

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  6. Wolgulc Posted messages 175 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   28
     

    Hello!

    After several months of searching.

    I managed to find a SubReddit that allows searching for items from various media.

    And this music is none other than Adiéu paure Carneval

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  7. Wolgulc
     

    Well after months of searching I can't find any, I tried to find image files from Encarta 1998 to 2002, but none of them want to open. If someone could tell me how to do it or how to extract audio from this Encyclopedia, that would be nice.

    Thanks again in advance.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25344 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 192
       

      Hello,

      That said, the Encarta ISO images in various French versions can be found, for example, there, and should be able to run in a XP Virtual Box or VMWare Workstation virtual machine, at least the 1998 and 2001 ones for the period considered. The catch is that you either have to install them all one by one, or install on XP software capable of opening these ISOs in search of the audio media files, the format of which I do not know.

      https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%26%2334%3BEncarta%26%2334%3B

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      1. brucine Posted messages 25344 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 192 > brucine Posted messages 25344 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        I continue, as I have often expressed, to be fond of a voting system, whether in addition or in subtraction, which allows this to be done anonymously or without argument, which in no way advances the discussion by substituting for constructive criticism, and which moreover can be applied to a particular case that cannot necessarily be generalized.

        We have here a caricature of this, the voter spoke before having had the physical time to test what I proposed.

        These suggestions stemmed from the fact that I did not know whether Encarta used such an obsolete media file format that would not be recognized under Windows 10/11 or if these files were integrated into libraries coded into the software.

        Based on experience by mounting the Encarta 98 fr ISO under Windows 11, they seem to be only AVI files in the Media folder (paired with HTML files providing the caption), whose names are not evocative (for example 18431.avi) but which are not very numerous.
        Each opens a scene somewhere in the world, none about the Nice carnival, moral: you have to redo the operation with all versions of Encarta until you find (I don't want to, but you just need to download the ISOs from the site I indicated) and what will eventually provide us with the sound scene, not the name of the music.

        On the Windows XP side and if the goal is not to retrieve a file but to launch Encarta, it is much more complicated because at least the older versions of Encarta are not modern enough for XP, for Encarta 98 you would need to test in a Windows 98 virtual machine, I don't feel like installing one for so little either.

        The problem is, at the time it was in vogue, that Encarta launches an animation Flash at startup; it is not even a matter of the obsolescence of Flash preventing the software from starting under IE (at best IE8 under XP), but that it simply refuses to install because it includes and tries to install a version of Flash Player that conflicts with the one installed by default under XP.

        This conflict is version-dependent for both XP and Encarta; some sources claim that the installation would fail systematically beyond XP SP2 (I have SP3 and I do not want to uninstall to reinstall a pre-SP2 version), others would manage it by tinkering with pre-installation uninstall of Flash in Windows.

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      2. brucine Posted messages 25344 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 192 > brucine Posted messages 25344 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        For those who want to run the guinea pig on XP, search for Virtual CD ROM Control Panel; the installation unzippe the files wherever you want, copy VCdControl Tool and VCdRom.sys into System32, create a shortcut of Tool on the desktop, run it and browse to the ISO (unlike Windows 10/11, the ISO is not mounted; it is directly auto-executed as it would have been from a CD).

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