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Music Meets Steganography
austad writes "Wired is running a story about how Aphex Twin has encoded a face into one of his songs. The face is visible when viewing the sound through a spectrograph. This is probably something I wouldn't want to see when coding in a dark room at 3AM. Sorry boys and girls, you have to buy the CD if you want to see it, encoding of the song into a lossy format destroys the image."
scare the living SHIT out of me alone in the oplab at night...
The image is not destroyed -- it just morphs into an image of Jack Valenti.
This is news?
I always see faces when listing to Aphex Twin if I sit there for long enough... although sometimes it helps to be in the right frame of mind.
:)
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Umm
You do realize that the second Windowlicker track is exactly the track that the Wired article is about.. right?
What do you mean by "Done before"?
Christian Music will have crosses, doves, and christian fish encoded into the signal, which will probably improve the music.
Gothic music will encode pentagrams, broken crosses, and tributes to Jack Chick, but nobody will notice because it's all screaming anyway.
Country music will include images of pickup trucks, cowboy hats, and liquor bottles, but since country fans are all hicks, they will never be discovered.
The RIAA will mandate that all music have encoded into it pictures that won't survive reencoding, but that, when translated to mp3, will crash your computer.
Yeah!
he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds on the face of the p
and he really does output the coolest , slickest, textured sounds of his face
cpeterso