UNKNOWN ARTEFACT: Sound Engineers, apply here!
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Good effort but unfortunately the way the game is you need to be in deep space away from a station instance in order not to hear the radio chatter. I was going to guess you're somewhere from outside the no fire zone to about 50KM.
It won't work; there isn't an audio file to extract. The game is building the UA audio by assembling various sound files into the sequence that we're analyzing. So the signal is coming from the game code, not the audio files.
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There are things to learn from what the sound files are though, where the detail is, what has the most components and stuff even if the actual content of them is fairly useless. we're not supposed to talk about this thoughhhh so how about that local sports team that got the points and did the thing?
Exactlyvery few people know about this.
Spoken audio may be in there; voice samples that are generated on the fly sound slightly robotic, unnatural.
The tones, noise, and other components of the Artefacts song however, is likely created through code using a bank of samples.
THAT SAID: we shouldn't crack the game files open and discuss that here, because it's very naughty!
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Maybe it's just my computer or something, but even in debug camera with music muted, turned off, and turned to the lowest volume, all my systems (except life support and obviously Power Plant) turned off, even after my cockpit freezes there's still some ambient noise (much of which sounds like a kind of music) that would 'contaminate' any recording. Not that I have an Artefact to play with.
I think this puzzle, if indeed it is one, is going to be a bit simpler than messing with the audio. If I was designing a puzzle like this, I would want it to be complicated, but accessible. Tinkering with sound files isn't something that everyone has the skill to do, but looking for patterns? Everyone can do that, in fact it's something we humans excel at doing to the point that we see patterns in chaos.
EDIT: missing letters added.
Also, I'm not sure if this is the right place for these questions, but the 'main thread' doesn't seem to be talking about the sounds.
If I understand correctly, the audio played when you 'look at' the artefact when it's floating in space is different per system (but only the first few seconds before the first "Whale noise"?), and even different in the same system at different locations therein. Are we sure it's got anything to do with the location and the thing doesn't just make different sound sequences every time it's ejected?
Otherwise, there are 5 primary sound clips: a low, slow growl (call this GX), a low, medium pace growl (call this G0), and a short, higher, faster growl (call this G1), the whale noise, and a... I don't even know how to describe it. Kind of a metallic moan (but not as in metal 'groaning' under stress).
GX's reverberations are irregular speeding up and slowing down over the course of the sound (or maybe I'm hearing it overtop of one of the other growls), and it and repeats every 6-7 other growls, it's assumed to be a 'word break' symbol to distinguish between the other two growls, considered to be representations of binary values. The whale noises singal a repetition from the last whale noise.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I very much like puzzles, but abstract sounds are not my fortè.
So are all the growl noises actually the same? I mean, for example, are all the G1s really the same sound clip? If not, how big is the variation?
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If this is all too technical for you, the Zoo Tycoon forums are thataway <----
I guess that's the naughty side of the forum then.
There are exactly 278 wav files for clicks in the sound that the roller coaster makes when it slowly inches up. The UA is a bargain by comparison.
OK - consider my interest piqued...
I have been struggling to think of a reason for this 'insectoid' sounding chatter - I have tried processing that section in an attempt to extract a voice, but I lost too much clarity to warrant further investigation. I suspected that it was merely alien in origin, ruling out any sensible outcome, given that I don't speak Thargoid
I do have one question however - aren't you the same guy that posted the Reddit theory whereby you were flipping the 'header' values to equal the bit length of the entire message? If so, why post this under a different account? Questions aside, I agree with a lot of your comments; we do need more data, and we do need more organisation in terms of collating results.
Excellent work, and thanks for sharing how you processed the file. Maybe there is something there, after all...
Different account!?!? I didn't, I posted a duplicate of my Reddit discussion to these very forums, using this same account
http://www.stellar-database.com/Scr...9&maxDecDeg=+89&maxDecMin=59&maxDecSec=59.999
Decided to toss a list of stars that are at about 15 lightyears from the coordinates, that Feugan posted
Decided to toss a list of stars that are at about 15 lightyears from the coordinates, that Feugan posted
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Wings?
The amount of players in the group or instance?
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nice...
Same boat....
So, going off the voice: "Eight seventy seven six six four nine two" I was able to yield the following results by searching on galaxy map. All locations are very, very far away:
HIP 87766
HD 66492
Are these always 5 digits? Is it possible that the range we can search is limited, and there might be a HIP or HD value that is longer?
HIP 87766
HD 66492
Are these always 5 digits? Is it possible that the range we can search is limited, and there might be a HIP or HD value that is longer?