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by jeremyvisser 1507 days ago
This is another clearly automated channel I found recently.

For some reason I was searching for some game music I remembered from childhood (OMF 2097), and came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1F_IwdceU

It was strange, because it was titled like “how to play this music”, except clearly it was just a MIDI file piped through a visualisation into the video; as a musician I know it’s useless for the task at hand.

Looking at the other videos on the channel, I found dozens and dozens of the exact same video intro, except with a new MIDI file: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCiu4h1KfC9ODVz90JRogdg/vid...

Presumably the author has automated this by scraping tons of free MIDI files, rendering them to video, prepending a generic video intro, and hoping to cash in.