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Starting a top thread for part 4 "Revamp"

Translated every song. One translates to "Hint - Overlap the songs point by point"

Have to overlap the songs but how is the question, what does it mean point by point? Line them up using the equalizer settings? Song duration?

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Couple other things stand out

these following songs have flat line equalizers while the others dont. They also seem to be clues

Magic Mirror - TOD ETALSNART (TRANSLATE DOT) 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3

Indiciu - Suprapune punct cu punct melodiile (Hint - Overlap the songs point by point) 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3

Wayne - The Dot Song 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

SOS - Find me DMS 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3


EDIT
You can separate the songs in categories. First split them up based on their equalizes, as the same number ones are hints, the other half you can split a second time on if the song is about Dots, if you listen to clippy, he gives hints also. and he states "a rose by any other name is still a rose" , so dot by any other name is still a dot, i.e. POINT, SPOT, LOCATION*

The one song is SOS - Find me DMS, DMS = DEGREES : MINUTES : SECONDS.
This idea is backed by some of those hint songs. Also when you export the list of songs, you only get 18 not the full 19 songs in the list. This is another clue and can be confirmed by seeing the equalized are all the same when you select track 19. This song is called "DEGREES - Spin Me Around", this mentions out degrees and spinning, pointing us back to DMS = DEGREES : MINUTES : SECONDS

So since we are looking for a location, we now know we need the coordinates of this location, not a name.

need to figure out how to solve for the coords, that will be the answer


EDIT 2
Clippy gave clue of Duration and Directions be correlated.
Thinking it has to deal with the time lengths of the songs with Dot references.


EDIT 3
okay having the songs in three groups does matter. the songs about dot, songs not about dots, and songs that dont fit in either of those.
you add theses songs' lengths up to get minutes and second for both West and North
you then take the two number (116:36) from track 19 for the DEGREES

so once everything is slapped together you get the following coords
116:23:46 W 36:38:38 N

Though i was incorrect, the coords are not the answer but rather the location name they point to.
I will leave that little bit as fun for you guys as this is the last part of this drive.

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@mackulin im not sure but the languages of some songs could also be a hint, also a we can split the songs into another categories which is songs that exist and songs that are totally made-up

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AinzOwl

clippy give a hint about that by wondering like what wayne will name his daughter or what dj lallma is doing also there's no dj lallma in the songs list

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Figured it out already, look at my 3rd edit :)

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ah well xD

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Fisheiyy

116° 23' 46" W 36° 38' 38" N
which comes right next to the Area 51 Alien Center so the answer is Area 51

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AinzOwl

waiting for G2 :/

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Fisheiyy

its out!

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Fisheiyy • Edited

all song names translated and reversed when needed: salmon-man.please-end.me/5rLvC3beC
that is how it shows up from the .csv file you download when you click the "save list" button in the bottom right

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Sloan, the sloth mascot
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Digital Grey Hat • Edited

The other guy who deleted the comment said that when you click on the eject button it plays a rickroll.
Edit: It's NOT an Easter Egg

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try to install hacx ;) if you are looking for some eggs

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@fisheiyy I edited my OG post with more info

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Installed hacx but is there any other code other than hackerman?

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from looking around there is at least one more but i dont know what it is.

I believe it has to deal with the poem in the C Drive under My Computer /C/Files/ILOVEYOU.txt

It's a poem cypher and they are relatively easy to decode if you can figure out if you have the indicator group. which i believe is what starts that random line before the sign off

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romustdie • Edited

TOTHEMOON is another one:)

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Fisheiyy • Edited

would these be the right equalizer numbers? salmon-man.please-end.me/5rP4DxmJV if so then what to do?

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equalizers are just to separate clues from useful songs from what ive figured out.

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I don't know what you're saying about "songs about dot, songs not about dots, and songs that don't fit into either of those." The last two categories seem like the same things. Do you mean "songs with dot in the title, song with synonyms for dot (i.e. point) in the title, and songs with neither"?

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First look at all the song's equalizer numbers. Any songs that have all the same number (repeating 1 or 2 or 3, etc) are clues. These songs can go in their own group and are no longer useful besides what clues that give.
Of the remaining songs, divide them into two more groups those about dots (points, dots, etc, if it means a dot it is included), if the song does not have anything to do with dots put that in the other group.

IE the three groups are
1 - Songs with straight equalizer bars - these are clues
2 - Songs that deal with dots, points, etc
3 - all remaining songs that dont fit in the above.