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Glitch News

News photos, mostly from Japanese sources, as they might be interpreted by a malfunctioning JPEG renderer. Above: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Did you know you can put (almost) arbitrary data into a WAV file’s PCM stream? It’s true, and the results sound as mechanical and unlistenable as you might expect. In the spirit of the old Everything2 node “catting weird things to /dev/audio”, here’s how I created this:

$ curl -s https://raw.github.com/knu/ruby-unf_ext/master/ext/unf_ext/unf/table.hh | \
  ffmpeg -codec:a pcm_s16le -f s16le -ac 2 -i - -f wav output.wav

A breakdown of the above FFmpeg invocation:

As is my usual admonition, don’t do this.