musicdisk

English

Etymology

From music +‎ disk; they were originally distributed on floppy disk.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

musicdisk (plural musicdisks)

1. (demoscene) A collection of music tracks composed on a computer and packaged with custom-written player software.
   • 1993, Frans Bouma, “Demolist 3/5 - 7/5”, in bit.listserv.i-amiga (Usenet):

     ok that's it for this week. Next week I'll get more and better designed musicdisks than this week. If you have a remark or suggestion for this list, don't hesitate but mail me directly.

   • 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

     The NoName musicdisk, arranged by five musicians — Oxbow, Vegard, Laxical and Daddy Freddy — was the first chiptune musicdisk ever.