Janet Jackson's 1989 mega-hit 'Rhythm Nation' sonically smashes old hard drives
,"a major computer manufacturer discovered" that playing the music video would not only crash the hard drive of the laptop it was running on but also any other similar model within earshot.CVE database
. After a thorough investigation, the device manufacturer confirmed that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies of the hard drives playing the song essentially rattled the devices apart. Rather than recall untold numbers of decades-old drives, the manufacturer instead opted to develop a workaround by"adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback," according to Chen.
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