6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
3:22 p.m.
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:05:47PM -1000, david wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
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
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:26:11PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
Cute, lots of high-pitched chirps and static sounds, some bouncing
around between stereo sides. No discernible difference between dd and cat. On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:19 -1000, david wrote:
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 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
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