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- actorboy, on 12/23/2007, -1/+139Wow. Dated 7/9/2002. I wonder if he's continued the project. I'd love to hear what he could come up with after further experimentation.
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -1/+108Awesome... I actually kind of like the bizarre warped mp3s he produced... some are very Boards of Canada-esque.
- Asianwaste, on 12/23/2007, -0/+76Anyone remember a long long time ago, in the back of cereal boxes there were circular cut outs. The cutouts actually could play on a record player. I remember the one I had was Toucan Sam singing the theme for Fruit Loops at the time.
- Wholekernalcorn, on 12/23/2007, -4/+65What do you hear when you scan em backwards?
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -1/+49Yup. If you hold shift while pressing the number 2 key, you get the "at" symbol.
- radu79, on 12/23/2007, -1/+37This is one of the coolest pointless projects ever!
I wonder if a higher resolution scanner could produce a better sound. I know that there are some laser pickup disk readers, in the $10K-20K USD range.. - LaerrusFish, on 12/23/2007, -2/+33Aliens are speaking to us through Vivaldi records!
- djcreamy, on 12/23/2007, -4/+35HAIL SATAN!!!
- pardonmedoug, on 12/23/2007, -1/+30still going at 100 diggs. PM me to get my address to remit payment.
- rssolo23, on 12/23/2007, -1/+29Buried for "joking btw"
- neutralmind, on 12/23/2007, -25/+52Bookmarked for listening while high.
- ryanonfire, on 12/23/2007, -4/+30flange
- voodoozombie, on 12/23/2007, -6/+31On Slashdot 5 years ago. I thought it would take longer than that to get on Digg. Pretty quick.
- crabesa, on 12/23/2007, -4/+27that just scared the ***** out of me
- mateo60, on 12/23/2007, -0/+22I bet it will be fine. The server isn't a personal site, its The Hebrew University School of Computer Science and Engineering.
- Farkough, on 12/23/2007, -1/+22Some other people have taken this a bit further - the Library of Congress are testing a similar system to preserve their archive of recordings, called IRENE (http://irene.lbl.gov/).
- BGog, on 12/23/2007, -1/+22Since when is Digg only about stuff that happened today. I thought it was about cool stuff others would be interested in. Who cares that it's 5 years old. It's still cool. And congratulations to you for reading it on slashdot years ago... Whooopdee doo. ... I guess I don't get your point.
- Dradu, on 12/23/2007, -2/+22The voices! Make them stop!!
- pardonmedoug, on 12/23/2007, -0/+19you're on.
- tupperbacharach, on 12/23/2007, -1/+20Wendy was Walter when she composed the music for "A Clockwork Orange."
- NineKnuckles, on 12/23/2007, -0/+18I think the US and UK have slightly different keyboards or something like that
- MrBabyMan, on 12/23/2007, -2/+20Reminds me of some of the stuff Wendy Carlos used to do (i.e. Clockwork Orange soundtrack)
- MScrip, on 12/23/2007, -0/+17Burger King did a promotion with Alf... and there were little flimsy cardboard records that came with the kid's meal... many, many years ago.
- billbillbilly, on 12/23/2007, -1/+18whats a hamster dance?
/infant - actorboy, on 12/23/2007, -0/+15What I find interesting about it is that somehow the software somehow uses the standard chromatic scale to interpret the scans. It would be interesting to hear what would happen if he applied different scales or inverted it -- highs become lows, lows become highs. Using the various synthetic sound and different scales could make totally new masterpieces out of old masterpieces. Things that sound nothing like the original but are founded on the same rhythms and movements.
- actorboy, on 12/23/2007, -0/+15So, you are suggesting turning audio into some sort of data file with special "encoding" software, then sending it over the internet where the "end user" will have similar software to reconstruct that data into playable audio? What do you propose to call this amazing new digitized sound technology?
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -19/+33The older I get, the younger everyone else gets. So I remember this 5 years ago. The Avg digg user wasn't even born then, so all this old stuff is new to them... I can't wait to see the hamster dance on the front page of digg.
- apache2, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13... it's hosted on a university server
- MadOtaku, on 12/23/2007, -0/+13It won't go down. It's a university server.
- terracottapai, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11Turn me on, dead man.
- MadOtaku, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11I know what you mean. I'd be pissed at anyone who got customers to come to my business.
- chadtatro, on 12/23/2007, -0/+11ok greaaaat... now that i've summoned satan by playing those samples, i'm sure to have the best xmas ever..
- danwallace, on 12/23/2007, -0/+10And they're saying... WOOSHWOOSHWOOSHWOOSHWOOSH.
Crack the code! - ozydingo, on 12/23/2007, -0/+10It's when two hamsters really love each other and need a way to express it.
- MadOtaku, on 12/23/2007, -2/+12BOO!
- iDiggIt42, on 12/23/2007, -0/+10Paul is dead, miss him, miss him.
- notoneofus, on 12/23/2007, -0/+9Japan's is the same (double-quote over the 2, like a typewriter). It's really hard to get used to going from a US keyboard.
- johnparkman, on 12/23/2007, -0/+9Regardless of how old the page is, I find it very interesting.
Does anyone else wonder if he would have more success using a hand-held scanner rather than a flatbed scanner? Spinning the disc under a handheld should solve the problem of the light reflecting off alternate sides of the groove and should stop that weird "flange" effect. - TastyLamp, on 12/23/2007, -1/+10Yeah! But you can view the encoded version as an image! For extra pointlessness!
- Markpdotcom, on 12/23/2007, -0/+9Urns?
- iRoy, on 12/23/2007, -1/+9NOTHING beats a Technics 1200, especially not a CD-J!
- danwallace, on 12/23/2007, -0/+8(wooshwooshwooshwooshwoosh)
- cw1925, on 12/23/2007, -6/+14Mirror of the files in case they go down: http://www.mediafire.com/?e1klzxooopi
- missingnoh4x, on 12/23/2007, -1/+9What kind of keyboard are you using?
- actorboy, on 12/23/2007, -2/+10Or their lives don't revolve around getting high.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 12/23/2007, -1/+8I am more interested if the owner even still has access to his account and might notice a sudden giant increase in traffic, its unlikely but I hope this convinces him to try to continue it.
- iRoy, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7You want to scratch Vivaldi?
What the hell are you doing with an SL-1200 anyways? - ellabee, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7Whoa flashback!! I haven't thought of those in years......
- ozydingo, on 12/23/2007, -0/+7Agreed. I definitely don't think I could have gotten nearly as far as he did has I tried the same thing.
Yet as for improving his results with a better scanner, I think the main problem lies principally in his asusmptions--if I read correctly, he interpreted the two dimensions used to encode stereo as being radial and hight/depth? That would explain the flange, since the stereo channels are encoded both at angles; picture a sharp, flat-edged groove (looks like a V) in the record so that the diamond tip fits snugly in; the two sides of the groove are rippled, each one rippled orthogonally to it's position, to encode each of the two signals for the stereo music. That makes the analog signals at 45 degree (not sure it's that exactly) angles, not r and z as he assumed. - Cyber_Akuma, on 12/23/2007, -1/+8L@@k, you seem to have mis-typed the site's address, this is Digg, not eBay.
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