Re: [microsound] Image to Sound Converters

[burnett@xxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, devslashnull wrote:

> How large is this image file?

584KB, 3072x2304pixel image.

> Does the file size of the original image file have any bearing on the 
> duration of the resulting converted audio file?
>
> I seem to remember being able to get reasonable durations from my conversion 
> experiments of yore.

I managed better, meaning longer, results by replacing the first three 
lines of the jpg file with the first few lines of a wav file using 
TextEdit, as one of the other emails in this thread suggested.

Bill, thanks for your suggestions in your earlier response. I think I 
should try using Amadeus, as your description of what it can do seems 
similar to what I want to do.

thanks,
Steve B

> On Sep 23, 2007, at 7:45 AM, burnett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Bill Jarboe wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Boris,
> > > There are many different ways to convert image to sound. Sometimes 
> > > effective is simply opening the file in soundhack, amadeus or audacity. 
> > > You might also like opening a sound in photoshop and subtly changing 
> > > details in the image then saving the result and listening through an audio 
> > > editor.
> > >
> > >                                                    -hope this is helping.
> > >                                                     Bill
> >
> > Bill:
> >
> > I tried this, but I am having difficulty stretching the length of the sound 
> > of the picture: audacity's Change Tempo does not seem to work well with 
> > tracks that show as .008 (eight thousandths) of a second. I am managing 
> > some results by slowing the sample using an Electrix Repeater, but if you 
> > or anyone else has further advice not yet shared on this thread about 
> > either lengthening very short audio samples of picture > audio conversion 
> > on Mac OS X I would appreciate it. Thank you.
> >
> > Steve B

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