Last Update: 22 August 2022, 16:52 IST
Microsoft has explained that playing the mega-hit music video for popular US-based singer, songwriter, actress and dancer Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation will cause some models of laptops to crash.
The accompanying music video for “Rhythm Nation” was directed by Dominic Cena and choreographed by Jackson and then-unknown Anthony Thomas.
Tech giant Microsoft has reported that playing the mega-hit music video for popular US-based singer, songwriter, actress and dancer Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” will cause some models of laptops to crash.
According to senior software engineer Raymond Chen, they found something bizarre. Playing music videos on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash even though that other laptop was not playing the video.
“It turns out that the 5400 rpm in the song is one of the natural resonance frequencies for the model of laptop hard drive that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen said.
“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter to the audio pipeline that detected and removed offending frequencies during audio playback,” he said.
Chen mentioned that he’s sure “they put a digital version of the ‘do not delete’ sticker on that audio filter.
The mega-hit “Rhythm Nation” was released in 1989 as the second single from Jackson’s fourth studio album, Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814”.
The accompanying music video for “Rhythm Nation” was directed by Dominic Cena and choreographed by Jackson and then-unknown Anthony Thomas.
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