-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:05:47PM -1000, david wrote: > Ken Restivo wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:26:11PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >>On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:19 -1000, david wrote: > >>>Paul Davis wrote: > >>>>On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:57 -1000, david wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>>Well, there is a Linux program that will read the entire contents of a > >>>>>>hard drive as though it were one big audio file. So I guess we have > >>>>>>no more need for musicians, because that would be a collection of sine > >>>>>>waves of various frequencies, and that's all it takes. > >>>>>What's the name of that program? I want to listen to my /home folder! > >>>>>;-) > >>>>cat(1) > >>>Cat to what? > >>cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/dsp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > >> > >>to listen to ~: > >> > >> find ~ | xargs cat > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > >> > > > >Now, if I wanted to be a truly modern musician/artist, I'd hack up a bash > >script something like: > > > > dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1M | lame --cbr 128 - mydisk.mp3 > > Cute, lots of high-pitched chirps and static sounds, some bouncing > around between stereo sides. No discernible difference between dd and cat. Heh, I sent that without actually trying it. It sounds to me like a lot of glitch music. And I kind of like the panning noise that starts it off: http://www.restivo.org/misc/mydisk.mp3 Also, adjusting the line a bit: dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=10000 | lame --preset cbr 128 - mydisk.mp3 And actually the dd should probably include a skip= parameter with a random number, so that it's not always starting from block 0. I used dd instead of cat so as to include the "count" parameter, so that the file doesn't include the whole hard disk, just a minute or two of it. I suppose one could use "head -c 1000000" or "tail -c 1000000" too. Paraphrasing the late great Bill Hicks: "Pick your own command line, and have fun with the joke". - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFoGDe8HF+6xeOIcRAvq+AKDWn2FPmueVGsosDYEH68/ZmO6U/ACgkWzV cPgL7U9NR8mU9SySQO+k9tQ= =ptmW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
