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[PUZZLE] Hot Axons Wav Files
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kass
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 		blip in beer
I assume you mean the quiet clicking noise?

I took it to be footsteps on a hard floor. You can hear a door being opened, to the fridge, I'd be guessing, and then volume growing again as they turn around and walk back. Occam's Razor in this case for the assumptions.

Strangely, the spin up can't be cleared up at all either, afaict, which makes it sound like it's a purely digital sound effect. It's easiest to apply Occam's Razor to this as well, and say it's just a sound effect, rather than going into a huge [Spec] about why a computer would insert tape spin noise to their recordings ro something similar. :/

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:39 am
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BanditB17
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 		for one, im guessing the spin up noise is just a clue to say which order the tapes went in, so you dont have a spin noise in the middle of a set for some reason. Just a helpful guide maybe?

and DAMMIT

42.71425 -89.000977 15:11 map acme Janesville Wisconsin beer 2/2 phone doesn't accept incoming

I was just going to head there today... maybe it was the wrong phone? i wish there was a way to leave an email of who the beekeeper was or whatever... I have no way of confirming with this person but to go out there and see for myself >_<

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BanditB17
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 		you know what i wonder? The texts on the site, that seem like poetry except each line has nothing to do with the last... they are all quotes from this thing. Cept some arent from files we already have. I wonder if theres any significance to find the quotes that we DO have in the files?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:47 am
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Ramma2
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 		That isnt at the beginning of the audio file, here's how it goes:

Audio spinup
Door opening, followed by footsteps
Hey buddy, sorry bout that (with footsteps in the background, followed by door closing)

Then the scrambled noise I posted

Followed by the guy asking for beer.

So....

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:47 am
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philiptan
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 		Re: blip in beer
kass wrote:
Strangely, the spin up can't be cleared up at all either, afaict, which makes it sound like it's a purely digital sound effect. It's easiest to apply Occam's Razor to this as well, and say it's just a sound effect, rather than going into a huge [Spec] about why a computer would insert tape spin noise to their recordings ro something similar. :/


If you listen to the beginning of "Emergency", you can also tell that the sirens in the audio aren't speeding up with the spin-up sound... they maintain a constant pitch while the spin-up sound is still audible. Thus, the spin-up sound effect was probably mixed-in over a constant-speed audio recording. This implies that whatever audio might be in the spin-up, it's probably not a continuous part of the audio that forms the rest of the wav.

Maybe other wavs have more useful spin-ups. My wild guess is no.

I'm a newbie, so trout me at will.

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kass
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 		Re: Ramma and scrambled noise
... I think you may have an issue with your audio player. The mp3 you posted is footsteps, someone saying 'better luck next time, my friend' and then the file ends. No scrambled anything, no blips, nothing. Same thing that's in the original wav.

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BanditB17
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 		thats what im hearing as well

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Ramma2
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 		Wow, that is insane then.

Every other file plays fine, with Winamp, Audio Player and Audacity. beer.wav plays fine as well except for that 1 part.

*Boggle*

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:17 am
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Stone
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Ramma2 wrote:
Wow, that is insane then.

Every other file plays fine, with Winamp, Audio Player and Audacity. beer.wav plays fine as well except for that 1 part.

*Boggle*

Possibly 'corrupted' data [edit: either plaintext or steg]? One of the players should let you show the current frame of the MP3, some simple maths should then show you where in the file it is if you want to check it.

FWIW I have to use a DOS-based player to load up the .WAVs - Windows Media Player plays them all about 2x too fast. Strange Confused

Stone

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Ceantari
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 		I know this has nothing to do with the ambient channels you guys are trying to isolate, but this has been hankering me for some time:

What is going on with the parental guardian relationships?

JAN has a DAD, no MOM.
SOPHIA has a MOM, no mention of a DAD.
JERSEY has a DAD and MOM (who's seeing someone else)
KHAMAL has a MOM, no mention of a DAD.

Bad marital problems - divorced? widow/er? infidelity? single parents?

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Max Damage
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BanditB17 wrote:
footsteps?


Yes. Footsteps.

You can hear lots of background noise - people moving around, the cop pacing back and forth in the interrogation scene, Kamal opening a beer (the little telltale click-hiss noise), etc etc.

Subtle but well engineered - professional radio-play material.

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avarame
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 		Listen with headphones -- they pan the voices around as characters move. I remember particularly in beer_wav you can really hear Hiro and Kamal moving around the room. In the interrogation sequence the Stupid Cop paces the room, and his footsteps and voice move together around the soundstage. This is really well-produced stuff. (Which is why I'm convinced there's another file yet to be revealed between our_hoodlums and much_lifting, but we've been over that...)

More spec -- Bergen County (the 911 responder's location) is in New Jersey. Jersey's name is Jersey. Clue of some kind? There's no hidding bergen.wav, before anybody goes to check.
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Ceantari
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 		Curious!

You guys heard of the http://www.ilovebees.com/yellowbrickroad.html, right?

Well, I wondered if there were other files and/or pages in the same path as all the audio files: http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/

I attached 'yellowbrickroad.html' to the end, http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/yellowbrickroad.html and got a blank page. It's not an invalid address; it's clearly valid. Not even a 404 or a 403 Error.

This is the source code of it:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Guess it's a temporarily placeholder for future things.[/url]

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:51 pm
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msekolpsu
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 		This works too.

http://www.ilovebees.com/test/yellowbrickroad.html
and this
http://www.ilovebees.com/inbound/yellowbrickroad.html

BTW, I tried /inbound, but got a 404. Maybe the page we need is /inbound/something.html and it will allow us to post something! That wouldn't be totally arbitrary, right?
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Ceantari
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 		I think it's purposeful, otherwise we'd get the usual "This page cannot be found...blah, blah, blah"

If you just do: http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/ , you get a "403 Error" with a mis-spelling of 'You' for 'You do not have permission to access this webpage'


Even more oddly...
... if you type any of the 'ilovebees' pages (about, hives, links, honey, etc.) into any ends of the paths:
http://www.ilovebees.com/outbound/
http://www.ilovebees.com/inbound/
http://www.ilovebees.com/test/

... will result with blank pages. Yet when you pick a random word, it results with "This page cannot be found"

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