hmm, not having much luck with cd bending. have tried dry erase markers and they dont work that well. only makes them skip a bit, and if you try to make more...
here's a new databent track i put together over the weekend. it starts out kind of catchy & then really picks up about 3min in. i wrote this while dreaming...
Hello All, Is this list still alive? I don't recall getting anything for a while. Anyway, here's some audio abuse I discovered by accident. I was downloading...
... this list kind of ebbs & flows. i posted a new track this morning, but before that it'd been a week since any posts. then, just when you think the list is...
in the hopes of generating a "rampant discussion" can i risk annoying the group by re-posting something that didn't generate much (read: any) response the...
... Funny you should repost about CDs; on a scrap of paper under my nose that thinks it's a to-do list is scrawled "Abuse CDs". I will begin today. I have a...
hello first post/bugger the intro... not tried it yet, but this has me wondering what effect a good long soak in coca~cola would have on a cd, given it's...
i'm not really sure what would be the ideal solution for cd bending, as error correction is built into the red book spec & the drive must be able to read a...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Actually I was just reading about CD specs the other day. High Sierra format doesn't have any error correction built into it. Audio and...
Kevan Shea
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Feb 12, 2002 3:10 pm
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... good luck with that. it seems like technical articles about any of the so-called copy protection schemes would be technically illegal under the DMCA......
... Hash: SHA1 ... I believe in end they were published SDMI threatened a lawsuit, so they were taken down, but are now in such wide circulation that they're...
Kevan Shea
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Feb 12, 2002 3:26 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... This looks promising: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/craver.pdf - -- Kevan Shea "Industrious people create industry. Lazy people create...
Kevan Shea
biffcool@...
Feb 12, 2002 3:54 pm
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I read in the late 80s of a "band" that featured skipping CD players....in an article by Mark Dery for keyboard mag....threw it out a few years back... in...
... dunno about that, but when browsing through .exe & similar files, i will occasionally find a non-audio file that seems to have WAV audio embedded inside...
In a message dated 2/12/2002 9:45:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... "It's just crazy enough, it might work!" Laugh. Any sort of clear goo temporarily affixed to...
... yeah, i tried the smearing it with saliva trick. now it's just unreadable. i've cleaned off the surface a bit and hope that will work. i have an old cd ...
... Hash: SHA1 ... I was thinking about that when you sent the first email out. I don't think you're chances would be really high. If you were to knock the ...
Kevan Shea
biffcool@...
Feb 12, 2002 8:26 pm
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I found a couple of hours to dabble tonight, and my results are promising. I put an account on my web site. Please check it out here ...
... this ... hey this is great. i am looking forward to trying your suggested techniques. my cd player is about 12 or 13 years old. it oversamples at about 8x....
When a CD skips repeatedly on the same spot, do you think the tempo of the skips is always the same? It certainly seems to be. Anyway, I'm having thoughts...
... i imagine it would depend on what part of the cd was skipping. a skip in track 1 at the innermost ring of the cd would seemingly be faster than a skip at...
I'm taking this too far, but help me out. I've measured tempos from several points on three of my bent CDs, counting each skip as half a beat. Tempos from...
cds start from the inner groove and go outwards, so if rate of skippage is based on the circumference of the portion of the disc being read at the time, then...
Just got PhotoShop and have been opening various things as images. but i'm wondering how to save the images. when i try to save images opened as raw, i can...
have you tried the 'save a copy' option? i'm pretty sure this allows you to save to other picture formats...my own copy of p/shop has screwed up somehow and...
You may want to assure that the color mapping and layers match the format you're trying to save. For example, layers and CMYK can't be saved in .gif or .bmp...
hi all, ... i opened it as 3 colours (RGB). i tried to flatten the image but the the option was grayed out; i couldnt select it. trying to save it as a copy ...