• @[email protected]
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    5 days ago

    I miss the old days when you could do
    ls -R / | aplay

    There’s no sudo, so it’s perfectly safe!!

    • Count Regal InkwellOP
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      75 days ago

      There was a thing you could do with cat /dev/random into aplay, and get some fun “Music” but you needed some other parameters to get anything other than brown noise.

      • Littux
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        #!/bin/env bash
        echo "What music to play?"
        echo "[1] Groovy; blues"
        echo "[2] Japanese"
        echo "[3] ??"
        echo "[4] 8 bit Bass boosted"
        read music
        
        if [[ $music -eq 1 ]]; then
            echo "Enjoy!!"
            cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000
        fi
        
        
        if [[ $music -eq 2 ]]; then
            echo 'Enjoy!!'
            cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000 &
        
            cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format s32 --rate 2000
        fi
        
        
        [ $music -eq 4 ] && {
            cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format S16 --rate 80000 &
        
            cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format u8 --rate 8000 --volume=50000
        }
        
        
        if [[ $music -eq 3 ]]; then
          echo "Taken from r/coding; enjoy!!"
          awk 'function wl() {
                rate=64000;
                return (rate/160)*(0.87055^(int(rand()*10)))};
            BEGIN {
                srand();
                wla=wl();
                while(1) {
                    wlb=wla;
                    wla=wl();
                    if (wla==wlb)
                        {wla*=2;};
                    d=(rand()*10+5)*rate/4;
                    a=b=0; c=128;
                    ca=40/wla; cb=20/wlb;
                    de=rate/10; di=0;
                    for (i=0;i<d;i++) {
                        a++; b++; di++; c+=ca+cb;
                        if (a>wla)
                            {a=0; ca*=-1};
                        if (b>wlb)
                            {b=0; cb*=-1};
                        if (di>de)
                            {di=0; ca*=0.9; cb*=0.9};
                        printf("%c",c)};
                    c=int(c);
                    while(c!=128) {
                        c<128?c++:c--;
                        printf("%c",c)};};}' | sox -t raw -r 64k -c 1 -e unsigned -b 8 - -d
        fi
        exit 0
        
      • @[email protected]
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        75 days ago

        Mine is basically the same, but since it pipes your filesystem layout into aplay instead of random bits, it’s not just brown noise.
        It plays you the song of your system.
        (also, it can damage your speakers, headphones and/or ears)

    • palordrolap
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      55 days ago

      Can’t vouch for any other distro, but aplay is alive and well on Mint. The package that contains it — alsa-utils — seems to be a core dependency for Cinnamon, even.

      So basically, your example runs fine on my machine, screechy sounds and everything.