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

  • @TinEnglish
    75•5 days 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 days ago

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

      • @TinEnglish
        13•4 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

    • @ShunkW
      12•4 days 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.

      • @TinEnglish
        3•3 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]
      8•4 days 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.