But Lin Wei was a music journalist. She couldn’t resist. After an hour of digging, she found the password hidden in a KKBOX Taiwan Instagram story — a single Chinese character: 聚 (gathering).

Track 04 was a duet between a famous C-pop idol and a veteran folk singer — an impossible collaboration, according to industry gossip. Track 11 was entirely instrumental, recorded live in a Taipei night market, rain on tarps and the distant hum of a scooter engine.

"Qun xing" — "many stars." A group of artists, unannounced. No press release. Just a password-protected RAR file.

She double-clicked track 07.