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submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

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[-] Tin@lemmy.world 54 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Windows Sound Recorder used to open literally anything - text documents, pdfs, images, executables, DLLs, and attempt to play them as audio. Photoshop files make especially interesting noises through it. I used to use it for samples. Got some great noisy stuff that way.

[-] MellowSnow@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Tin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have the album I made with them! Some of the tracks are solely composed of Sound Recorder playing non-audio files, but every track contains samples created that way. The quality isn't the best, this is a CD rip because I've long since lost the original files, but since it's experimental industrial noise, the audio quality doesn't hurt much I guess.

https://soundcloud.com/themachinal/sets/the-machinal-disturbance

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I cant remember the command now, but there was one on linux which let you play anything, I remember /usr/bin/ls sounded nice.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

aplay is pretty decent
I definitely have pointed it at /dev/random

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I used to do this with audacity. It's fun to open an image, and apply some audio filters to it, then export it. Makes for some interesting photo fuckery results.

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