And Venetian Snares encoded his cat https://eeggs.com/items/46956.html

You already have a hardware-accelerated pair attached to your head!

Huh. Get out your red string and pushpins because this inspired a theory.

So if the correct pair of values there ends up being 445 / 216.27000197, then it'll be:

60 * 445 / 216.27000197 = 123.456789

Or, since one of those programs had four decimals:

60 * 445 / 216.27015788 = 123.4567

Or, if it's 444/446 rather than 445:

60 * 444 / 215.78415752 = 123.4567

60 * 446 / 216.75615823 = 123.4567

But I see that they cut the "whooshing intro" at the front, which I imagine is part of the beat — they're in the hands of the machine now, after all! — so if we retroactively construct 123.4567 bpm into the silence (which, they estimate, is 5.58s):

5.58s * (123.4567bpm / 60s) = 11.4814731 beats

Assuming that the half a beat of slop silence there has to do with format / process limitations with CD track-seeking rather than specific artistic intent, we get:

+11 intervals @ 123.4567 bpm = 5.346s

Which, when added to the original calculation, shows:

60 * (445 + 11) / (3:41.85 - (0.5.58s - 0:5.346s)) = 123.4567 bpm

And so we end up with a duration of 221.616 seconds between the calculated 'first' beat, a third of a second into the song, and the measured 'last' beat from the post:

60 * 456 / 221.616 = 123.4567 bpm

Or if we use the rounded 123.45 form:

60 * 456 / 221.628 = 123.45 bpm

And while that 22+1.628 is-that-a-golden-ratio duration is interesting and all, the most important part here is that, with 123.4567bpm, I think it's got precisely 0.2345 seconds of silence before the first 'beat' of the song (the math checks out^^ to three digits compared against the first 'musical beat' at 5.58s!), and so I think there's actually 456 beats in the robotic 123.45 song!

:D

^^ the math, because who doesn't love a parenthetical with a footnote in a red-string diagram (cackles maniacally)

5.58s - (60 * 11/123.4567) = 0.2339961 ~= 0.234

5.58057179s = 0.23456789 + (60 * 11/123.4567)

Non related. Are your comments translated with AI or AI generated?

For those not in the know "Cola Bottle Baby" is the Edwin Birdsong tune [1] that Daft Punk sampled for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". I heard the sample first but think I prefer the original at this point (despite the songs being different genres). Lots of interesting stuff going on with the bass guitar and chorus that's missing in the Daft Punk cut.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD39jo5Yo4