Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:22:47AM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Guys... I've had an idea for a play project I can work on at home in my spare time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? I know that sounds

[OT] Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Vendredi 8 Août 2003 10:22, Craig Tinson a déclamé : Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? I know that sounds weird so I'll explain what I mean... When I say number I don't mean as in integer, long etc.. I mean as in a huge set of individual integers.. A

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:26:15PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: since wav and mp3 or both lossy (44khz wav can't properly reconstruct signals with more then 22khz). That's something of a confusing statement... All recording formats are lossy in that the recording is never a perfect copy of the

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 01:03, Alan Shutko wrote: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can never convert it into a single unique number. That can be proved to be impossible. No, it can't. Counter-proof: let the MP3 represent a single number, base 256, where the first byte is the

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Tinson wrote: Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch on all of the possible things I can think of: First, either you

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:22, Craig Tinson wrote: Guys... I've had an idea for a play project I can work on at home in my spare time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? I know that sounds weird so I'll

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:22:47 +0100 Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I say number I don't mean as in integer, long etc.. I mean as in a huge set of individual integers.. Hope that all makes sense.. anyone any ideas on how this could be done? Erm, erm... that is what the .wav file

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:36:58AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: I don't know if I'm the only one, but has anyone thought that perhaps the OP wanted to do this 'just because'? Personally, I think it would be quite 'cool' to be able to convert a stream of audio into a stream of integers

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-11 Thread MJM
On Friday 08 August 2003 13:43, Pigeon wrote: read a book on DSP. Recommendations? -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unusual idea..

2003-08-10 Thread Craig Tinson
Guys... I've had an idea for a play project I can work on at home in my spare time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? I know that sounds weird so I'll explain what I mean... Imagine converting an mp3 into a

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 03:30, Joe Emenaker wrote: Craig Tinson wrote: Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch on all

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-09 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:22:42PM -0400, MJM wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 13:43, Pigeon wrote: read a book on DSP. Recommendations? ...would also be of interest to me! I'm no DSP expert; I merely know one or two basics, and bemoan the lack of good technical volumes in public libraries.

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-09 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:22:47AM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: Guys... I've had an idea for a play project I can work on at home in my spare time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a number? I know that sounds

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Craig Tinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine converting an mp3 into a wav and loading it into a wav editor.. you will see a waveform.. there must be a mathematical way of converting that waveform into a unique number that will represent that waveform.. the number would be huge to hold all

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can never convert it into a single unique number. That can be proved to be impossible. No, it can't. Counter-proof: let the MP3 represent a single number, base 256, where the first byte is the lowest-order digit, second byte next lowest order, etc.