And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”If something doesn’t open in VLC, you can usually safely assume the file is corrupt lol
Just because VLC plays a file doesn’t mean that the file isn’t corrupted.
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What would this sound like played in aplay?
What the fuck did you just say about me, you little shit? I’ll have you know that I…
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.
Got any fun clips to share?
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
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.
Oh, I didn’t know audacity would do it. Well I know how I’m wasting time at work the rest of this week…
I still find it strange that windows media player classic consistently works better than every new media player they’ve introduced since. It seems like if you make OS’s you cannot simultaneously make a good media player, eg. Quicktime/itunes/wmp/groove
I absolutely love VLC
Thanks for mentioning the name because I honestly didn’t know what software the second icon was supposed to be.
Really? The classic hombre sunset graphic didn’t clearly say this is a Microsoft Windows product? /s
Everything is a .wav, you just lack the frequency hearing range.
Back when /dev/dsp existed, you could pipe any data to it, and it’d treat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like… well, also like they’re supposed to, i guess.
That’s the logo for a multi-billion dollar corporation’s built-in media player for their flagship OS? It looks like one of my side projects.
That logo paid for some kids house.
For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can’t play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.
VLC is the only android app I’ve found that still supports tracker MODs, absolutely required for my music listening.
I find VLC has a hard time playing .GIF files
And it stutters when playing .ts files.
I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player 😞
Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away
Never knew that one.
I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.
VLC is okay…but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.
I could never get VLC to player videos without weird video issues.
First time I hear of someone having problems opening whatever format in vlc. I mean if there’s a program that reads each an everyone of them it’s VLC
Oh it opens them. Reliable playback is something else entirely.
Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that’s more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.
that’s more of a
Blu-RayDRM problemFixed that for you, and fuck DRM.
Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.
Since the time of internet I’ve used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.
