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Re:Playing battleships over BGP by pbhjpbhj on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:20AM (#17118152)
Love it. But I like the skrillex steganography even more! https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-d...
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Re:Playing battleships over BGP by twic on Monday May 21, 2018 @04:30PM (#17121573)
> But that had me thinking, how much effort would it be to actually embed machine readable data inside a dubstep track

The Aphex Twin actually did this in 1999:

https://www.magneticmag.com/2012/08/the-aphex-face-visualizi...

As did a few other people around that time - there was even software for it.

> while ensuring that the sound could be enjoyed by humans as well…

Ah, well now that is arguably something that the Aphex Twin didn't do.

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Re:Playing battleships over BGP by bfhd on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:30PM (#17122005)
The same trick was used in the soundtrack of the new Doom game: http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/30/doom-game-pentagrams-sound...
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