nick burge wrote:
Hello list.....Intrigued by the idea of playing back jpeg (or other) files as audio signals I've been having a go with the readsf~ and soundfiler objects....skipping the header with readsf~ and using the -raw flag in soundfiler, opening in an array and using tabplay~ to play it back....whilst I can get these objects to open the files and play them back, the results seem a bit disappointing...just a lot of white noise at a constant volume. The wave forms displayed in the array look more promising than the audio result Was I expecting too much? What else could I be doing to achieve a more interesting sound?
Jpegs are usually compressed and compressed data looks like white noise. Maybe try uncompressed images with regular patterns in them, or low-pass filter the sound.
Martin