Re: [linux-audio-user] graphics->sound

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] graphics->sound

Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 5:11 pm

Cesare wrote:
> Florian Schmidt wrote:

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>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000

>> Nigel Henry  wrote:

>>

>>

>>

>>> Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of

>>> sheer fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many

>>> other sci-fi characters and places.

>>>

>>>

>>

>>

>> well, it works only if you either

>>

>> a] have OSS drivers installed or

>>

>> b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded..

>>

>> Nonetheless, here's an alsa version:

>>

>> cat foo.pdf | aplay

>>

>> ;)

>>

>> Have fun,

>> Flo

>>

>>

>>

> It's annoying that you can't make a joke with linux users. They've

> always an answer to show you that what you're joking about is not that

> ridicolous (rather it is indeed possible).

> But Peter wanted to generate sound from an image.

>

> So my question  is:  how can he use this software to accomplish this

> task if there's just the paper, and not yet the software?

>

but there IS software: http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~reuter/soundpaint/
sure the joke is funny, and i DID chuckle (a bit), but the cool thing is

that we tend to take the absurd and say, "hmmm.... we could probably do

something with that"!