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Alternative Media Intervalometer by teucer
January 22nd, 2008 7:34 PMThis audio file (available in three formats - mp3, ogg, and wav) represents about an hour and a half of the audio output of my computer. I had Audacity record said output for 90 minutes, and then compressed it by deleting the vast majority of every minute. The samples vary in length, but tend to be about a second long - though some are several seconds, and some as short as a quarter second)
You'll hear music, me playing video games (with music still playing), and an entire episode of Lost compressed into about forty-five seconds. (You'll also notice that I paused the episode for about two minutes to answer the phone.)
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Darkaardvark
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niallsb: Forevolution
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Fonne Tayne
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JJason Recognition
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Lincøln
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susy derkins
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Levitating Potato
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Augustus deCorbeau
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GYØ Ben
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qwerty uiop
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Optical Dave
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Meta tron
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JTony Loves Brains
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Burn Unit
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Ariock Knight
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Jellybean of Thark
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Ben Whitehouse
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meredithian
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Scarlett
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scotbotmosh
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help im a bear
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I picked spots where I was unlikely to start or end at the beginning of a word - but I chose them looking at the waveform rather than listening.
And yes, the timing is far better than I expected.
Did the long Audacity file give you any computer slowdown?
very well done, some of this is downright disconcerting... even creepy.
When my Audacity files get too big my computer just crashes on me *sigh*. That being said, Audacity rocks. I don't think there's been an audio-based part of any of my completions that hasn't come from or didn't go through Audacity at some point.
Wow, the whole mood of the night, shifting. Now I wonder how my days sound.
This is awesome, but really creepy to sit here listening to in an otherwise silent house.
I've decided I think the toilet flush is my favorite moment in that.
1. Vote for Jonathan Coulton
2. Vote for wishing I could live entire days/weeks/years like that
3. Vote for letting me think about new ways to catch up on LOST (I'm like 1.5 seasons behind
That's three votes, but due to the compression of time, it'll only register as one.
Two things:
1. I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you.
2. JoCo will be in SF February 22.
I love how, of several musicians heard in there, Coulton is the only one anybody has recognized thus far.
(The others are The Mountain Goats, who get the first several seconds, Miles Davis, who appears twice playing not-particularly-recognizable excerpts from some really awesome solos, and Stan Rogers, who is largely drowned out by video games, as well as a little bit of Heather Alexander, who is heard mentioning a polished shield.)
I love this. Did I say that before? I love it.
I have one reservation: I'd be interested in a variant of this completion where you try a consistent and precise interval, such as one second out of every 60 or two seconds out of every 30 or something. Just to see what it'd be like.
You know.
For science.
(edit: forgot to mention that about half my vote was a Mountain Goats vote. I am gonna make it. If it kills me.)
Back when I was struggling with the crippling depression, that was pretty much my theme song.
It didn't kill me, but I didn't entirely make it either.
this is pretty effing amazing. i almost feel like doing something similar not for any task, but just to see what it sounds like.
Did you just randomly cut away the excess audio or did you choose the spots? Because some of that timing was pretty great.
Parts of it also sound like someone with ADD flipping through radio stations.
Thoroughly original, highly enjoyable. Well done.