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Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Got any fun clips to share?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Oh, I didn't know audacity would do it. Well I know how I'm wasting time at work the rest of this week...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I used to write dark ambient and noise records as a hobby. I got some of my best samples from that method.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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