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Dialtones - A Telesymphony

Posted by michael on from the hi-kymah-andronis dept.

1337g writes "For once there's a use for those annoying ringing mobile phones during a concert. The entire Dialtones concert was performed by the ringing of the audience's mobile phones. The site shows how they pulled it off, and even gives a few samples of the concert."

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  1. Whoah...cool stuff by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are some MP3s on the site (Holding up so far..)

    This is actual music. It contains actual melodic lines and stuff. Neat.

    --
    TODO: Something witty here...
  2. Re:Yeah, but did they play... by ibennetch · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a local number for me. In high school, One of the student teachers told us that some of his college buddies had that number and kept getting prank calls until they changed the number.

  3. Re:Yeah, but did they play... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tommy Tutone did a song called Jenny(867-5309) which caused a lot of problems for some people.
    It was one of the early 'hits' that made MTV.
    I paged my buddy with this number recently and it took him days to figure it out.

  4. Re:Whoah GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD VIDEO tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative
    Don't forget to rip the content off the site! There is a Real Media stream, 54MB long, of this telephone symphony.

    You can download it (sorry its a Win32 ripping tool) with this:Streambox VCR v1.0 beta 3.1 http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_software/a udio_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm

    A direct link to the download is here: http://dl2.afterdawn.com/StreamBox!VCR.zip 674 KB (689,180 bytes)

    And to get the video stream go here: rtsp://www.aec.at/symposium2001/Dialtones_fin12.rm

    Just an FYI, the music kind of sucks. Does anyone know what the fuck they were trying to play? It sounds like a bunch of crickets and crap. If I had to sit through this I would have died of boredom.

    If anyone knows how to jack .asx, .asf, .wmf, .rm and .ram files in *nix, let me know!

    Here is some information from the site regarding the ripping software:

    The much sought after web mirror tool which is also capable of recording video streams. This excellent piece of software is extremely hard to find nowadays.

    Please read the unofficial manual for Streambox VCR for instructions on the setup and use of the software.

    Note! This program is no longer supported by the author. Streambox had legal difficulties with RealNetworks Inc. and therefor this program is illegal to use in the United States -- U.S. users should not download this program!.

    Unofficial manual for Streambox VCR v1.0 beta 3.1
    Created: 27/Jun/2001 Last updated: 18/Sep/2001

    Ever notice that most streaming media content, such as .asx, .asf, .wmf, .rm and .ram files, can be played, but not saved? Would you like to save streaming media to your Hard Disk for future playing? Of course you would!. StreamBox VCR is an easy to use utility which allows one to save streaming media to ones Hard Disk for later playing.

    Although using StreamBox VCR is easy, finding it on the Internet for download is not. Moreover, the current version of StreamBox VCR, (1.0 beta 3.1) requires one to register the program, and it "phones home" everytime you queue a file for downloading. To avoid these misforuntunes, one should apply the crack that has been developed. For more on this see the Appendix at the bottom of this post, and the Readme.txt file that comes packaged with the crack.

    Setting up Streambox VCR To download StreamBox VCR and the crack, see the Appendix at the bottom of this post.

    After downloading both, always scan the downloads with your favourite antivirus program using updated virus definitions. Most likely the downloads will be compressed (for example, .zip files). So instruct your antivirus program to scan within compressed files. you never know !!!

    If indeed compressed, extract the downloads with your favourite archive utility.

    StreamBox VCR 1.0 Beta 3.1 consists of two files: vcr.exe, and intercept.exe. If one doesn't already exist, create a folder called StreamBox_VCR and place these two files in the folder. Then place this folder in C:\Program Files.

    The crack contains 10 files. Place the crack executable file, fr_svcr1b31smf_crack.exe, in the same folder mentioned above, C:\Program Files\StreamBox_VCR.

    Double click the crack executable and click Start. The crack shouldautomatically find the StreamBox VCR executable, vcr.exe, and modify it accordingly. When finished, you will be prompted: vcr.exe - File successfully pattched [808 bytes written].

    Click, OK.

    To double check that the crack worked, open StreamBox VCR by double clicking its executable, vcr.exe, and then click, Help | About. If the crack functioned properly, the following will appear in the dialogue that opens: StreamBox VCR 1 beta 31 - SMFfix.

    Using Streambox VCR
    Thus far I have used StreamBox VCR to download, and save to Hard Disk, file URLs indicating files of the following extensions: .asx, asf, .rm and .ram. (Note: URLs indicating an .asx or a .wmf file will be saved as an .asf file.)

    Also, thus far I have been able use StreamBox VCR to download, and to save to Hard Disk, files posted with the following URL signatures:

    rtsp://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    pnm://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    mms://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    http://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename

    StreamBox VCR should be able to download, and to save to Hard Disk, file with differet extensions than that mentioned above. I also suspect that StreamBox will be able download, and save to Hard Disk, files posted with URL signatures different than that listed above.

    To use StreamBox VCR...

    If the URL for a file appears as a hypelink, right click on the hyperlink and select, Copy Shortcut.

    If the URL for a file does NOT appear as a hype link, you need to highlight the URL's text so as to copy it as follows:

    Place mouse cursor over the very start of the URL's text.
    When the cursor turns into an "I" shape, left click mouse and keep the left mouse button depressed.
    With the left mouse button still depressed, move the mouse so as to highlight the entire URL text.
    When the entire URL text is highlighted, release the left mouse button.
    Place the cursor over the highlighted URL text.
    Right click mouse and select, Copy.

    Open StreamBox VCR by double clicking the file, vcr.exe.
    In the StreamBox VCR menu bar click, Edit | Paste Link.

    The file's URL is automatically queued for download. If you like, select a different location to download the file to. Also, click any of the Tabs to modify StreamBox VCR's settings and download options. In particular, check out the Time, and Connection Tabs.

    Click OK. File download starts automatically.

    To check out information concerning the download, click the file's entry as appears in the StreamBox VCR main program interface.

    To modify StreamBox VCR's setting and download options on the fly, right click the file's entry in the StreamBox VCR main program interface. Here, if you click Properties, the same dialogue will appear as seen in step c.) above.

    When the download is finished a check mark will appear besides the files entry.

    StreamBox VCR allows multiple simultaneous downloads, and download stopping/resuming.

    If there are multiple file URLs listed on a page that you would like to download, simply highlight all the file URLs as described above (Note: it does not mattter if they are hypelinks or not), open StreamBox VCR, and click, Edit | Paste Link. A separate dialogue will appear for each file queued in this fashion.

    Appendix
    To download StreamBox VCR with VCR SMFfix crack click here below...
    http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software /v ideo_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm ...special thanks to http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~staak/vcr.htm for letting us use this manual on our site

  5. instructions how to rip the video stream tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Don't forget to rip the content off the site! There is a Real Media stream, 54MB long, of this telephone symphony.

    You can download it (sorry its a Win32 ripping tool) with this:Streambox VCR v1.0 beta 3.1 http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_software/a udio_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm

    A direct link to the download is here: http://dl2.afterdawn.com/StreamBox!VCR.zip 674 KB (689,180 bytes)

    And to get the video stream go here: rtsp://www.aec.at/symposium2001/Dialtones_fin12.rm

    Just an FYI, the music kind of sucks. Does anyone know what the fuck they were trying to play? It sounds like a bunch of crickets and crap. If I had to sit through this I would have died of boredom.

    If anyone knows how to jack .asx, .asf, .wmf, .rm and .ram files in *nix, let me know!

    Here is some information from the site regarding the ripping software:

    The much sought after web mirror tool which is also capable of recording video streams. This excellent piece of software is extremely hard to find nowadays.

    Please read the unofficial manual for Streambox VCR for instructions on the setup and use of the software.

    Note! This program is no longer supported by the author. Streambox had legal difficulties with RealNetworks Inc. and therefor this program is illegal to use in the United States -- U.S. users should not download this program!.

    Unofficial manual for Streambox VCR v1.0 beta 3.1
    Created: 27/Jun/2001 Last updated: 18/Sep/2001

    Ever notice that most streaming media content, such as .asx, .asf, .wmf, .rm and .ram files, can be played, but not saved? Would you like to save streaming media to your Hard Disk for future playing? Of course you would!. StreamBox VCR is an easy to use utility which allows one to save streaming media to ones Hard Disk for later playing.

    Although using StreamBox VCR is easy, finding it on the Internet for download is not. Moreover, the current version of StreamBox VCR, (1.0 beta 3.1) requires one to register the program, and it "phones home" everytime you queue a file for downloading. To avoid these misforuntunes, one should apply the crack that has been developed. For more on this see the Appendix at the bottom of this post, and the Readme.txt file that comes packaged with the crack.

    Setting up Streambox VCR To download StreamBox VCR and the crack, see the Appendix at the bottom of this post.

    After downloading both, always scan the downloads with your favourite antivirus program using updated virus definitions. Most likely the downloads will be compressed (for example, .zip files). So instruct your antivirus program to scan within compressed files. you never know !!!

    If indeed compressed, extract the downloads with your favourite archive utility.

    StreamBox VCR 1.0 Beta 3.1 consists of two files: vcr.exe, and intercept.exe. If one doesn't already exist, create a folder called StreamBox_VCR and place these two files in the folder. Then place this folder in C:\Program Files.

    The crack contains 10 files. Place the crack executable file, fr_svcr1b31smf_crack.exe, in the same folder mentioned above, C:\Program Files\StreamBox_VCR.

    Double click the crack executable and click Start. The crack shouldautomatically find the StreamBox VCR executable, vcr.exe, and modify it accordingly. When finished, you will be prompted: vcr.exe - File successfully pattched [808 bytes written].

    Click, OK.

    To double check that the crack worked, open StreamBox VCR by double clicking its executable, vcr.exe, and then click, Help | About. If the crack functioned properly, the following will appear in the dialogue that opens: StreamBox VCR 1 beta 31 - SMFfix.

    Using Streambox VCR
    Thus far I have used StreamBox VCR to download, and save to Hard Disk, file URLs indicating files of the following extensions: .asx, asf, .rm and .ram. (Note: URLs indicating an .asx or a .wmf file will be saved as an .asf file.)

    Also, thus far I have been able use StreamBox VCR to download, and to save to Hard Disk, files posted with the following URL signatures:

    rtsp://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    pnm://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    mms://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename
    http://serverdomain/possiblesubfolder/filename

    StreamBox VCR should be able to download, and to save to Hard Disk, file with differet extensions than that mentioned above. I also suspect that StreamBox will be able download, and save to Hard Disk, files posted with URL signatures different than that listed above.

    To use StreamBox VCR...

    If the URL for a file appears as a hypelink, right click on the hyperlink and select, Copy Shortcut.

    If the URL for a file does NOT appear as a hype link, you need to highlight the URL's text so as to copy it as follows:

    Place mouse cursor over the very start of the URL's text.
    When the cursor turns into an "I" shape, left click mouse and keep the left mouse button depressed.
    With the left mouse button still depressed, move the mouse so as to highlight the entire URL text.
    When the entire URL text is highlighted, release the left mouse button.
    Place the cursor over the highlighted URL text.
    Right click mouse and select, Copy.

    Open StreamBox VCR by double clicking the file, vcr.exe.
    In the StreamBox VCR menu bar click, Edit | Paste Link.

    The file's URL is automatically queued for download. If you like, select a different location to download the file to. Also, click any of the Tabs to modify StreamBox VCR's settings and download options. In particular, check out the Time, and Connection Tabs.

    Click OK. File download starts automatically.

    To check out information concerning the download, click the file's entry as appears in the StreamBox VCR main program interface.

    To modify StreamBox VCR's setting and download options on the fly, right click the file's entry in the StreamBox VCR main program interface. Here, if you click Properties, the same dialogue will appear as seen in step c.) above.

    When the download is finished a check mark will appear besides the files entry.

    StreamBox VCR allows multiple simultaneous downloads, and download stopping/resuming.

    If there are multiple file URLs listed on a page that you would like to download, simply highlight all the file URLs as described above (Note: it does not mattter if they are hypelinks or not), open StreamBox VCR, and click, Edit | Paste Link. A separate dialogue will appear for each file queued in this fashion.

    Appendix
    To download StreamBox VCR with VCR SMFfix crack click here below...
    http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software /v ideo_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm ...special thanks to http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~staak/vcr.htm for letting us use this manual on our site