History Main / RepetitiveAudioGlitch

* This was an issue that radio stations had to watch for back in the days when everything was on phonograph records with systems that automatically changed turntables. There is a [[UrbanLegends too-good-to-be-true]] story passed around in the radio industry about a DJ who set up several records to go off one-after-another live and went down to the cafeteria for lunch. The speakers in the cafeteria was playing the station and when he got there a commercial for an audio version of ''Literature/MobyDick'' was playing but the record was skipping going "dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick..". The DJ rushed up the stairs to the station and upon entering the studio slapped at the record player in a panic. The record player went "dick.. dick - ''[RecordNeedleScratch]'' '''''THAR SHE BLOWS!'''''"

* Most fans of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' would tell you that the boss, Flaahgra's, theme music sucked. However, this is actually due to a glitch in the American release where only the first thirty or so seconds of the song is repeated over and over again. This was corrected in the PAL and Trilogy versions of the game. Whether or not the theme sucks now is completely due to personal taste.

* RCA's [[{{UsefulNotes/CED}} Capacitance Electronic Disc]] system (abbreviated to CED) was and still is prone to this, also tending to repeat short segments of video, too.

For old-fashoned records, the loop was usually about 1.3 to 2 seconds (due to disks usually going 45 RPM or 33 RPM). It's much shorter on [=CDs=] (less than a third of a second) due to them going at 210 RPM ''at least''.

* Audio on programs like [=iTunes=] will stutter on computers with low Random Access Memory.

* As noted in the page quote, the first hint that late 1980s R&B act Milli Vanilli were lip-syncers came when a computer glitch caused this to happen to them, during a 1989 concert.

* In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', the recording of Haauser gets stuck repeating the [[MemeticMutation infamous words "Get your ass to Mars."]] after the laptop it's on gets shot during the brief second attack on Douglas Quaid.

* From Hanna-Barbera's ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryShow'' episode "Cosmic Cat And Meteor Mouse", Tom and Jerry both disguise themselves as the titular superheroes and visit the bulldog whose beauty sleep is being interrupted by their watching the titular show, with both characters lip-syncing to a record playing out the voices of the superheroes. The bulldog catches on that he's being duped when the record player hidden behind Tom's back skips on "Cosmic Zinger", and so he decides to fix them by having the record player speed up so that Tom and Jerry are lip-syncing faster and at a higher pitch.

* In ''VideoGame/FarCry'', especially the ''Classic'' remake, killing an enemy while they're in the middle of shooting will sometimes cause the gunshot sound to endlessly loop.

** In one short, "WesternAnimation/PigsInAPolka", the Big Bad Wolf tries to fool the Literature/ThreeLittlePigs by disguising himself as a Gypsy woman playing the violin. One of the pigs discovers the record player hidden behind his back and switches the record over to an upbeat polka, causing the wolf to literally dance out of his costume.

* Dynomutt starts glitch-repeating a word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' while explaining the original Blue Falcon's retirement and replacement with his son Brian as the new Falcon. He reveals he's doing it intentionally for emphasis before anyone can attempt the appropriate corrective action.

* Dynomutt starts glitch-repeating a word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' while explaining the original Blue Falcon's retirement and replacement with his son Brian as the new Falcon. He then subverts the trope by revealing he's doing it intentionally to add emphasis to what he was saying.

** And again during a retrospective of the PlayStation Magazine UK Demo Discs, this time with a piece of music in one of the games skipping. It then cuts to a similarly looping image of Caddy spreading out his arms with a smile.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' has [=GLaDOS=] doing this on multiple occasions.
* SHODAN in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' does this nearly all the time.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock2'''s Fontaine Futuristics announcer is a textbook example of this trope.

* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tOtheouM2I NSPCA spot]] from the UK features a girl's talking doll telling about how the girl's mother comes into her room "And ''punches'' her!--And ''punches'' her!--And ''punches'' her!''

** '''Alec:''' Anyway, [[{{Irony}} let's get on with th- on with - sh - sh - on with]] - on - sh - sh - sh - sh - show - on with - sh - sh - sh - sh - show - sh - on with - on with - '''[[PercussiveMaintenance *THUD*]]''' - on with the show.

* RCA's [[UsefulNotes/CED Capacitance Electronic Disc]] system (abbreviated to CED) was and still is prone to this, also tending to repeat short segments of video, too.