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Anonymous
I request gifs with music on them, if you dont know what i'm talking about, save the image I uploaded and run it in winamp.
>> Anonymous
Shwa?
>> Anonymous
wicked cool!
How does the magic work?
>> Anonymous
Holy crap, how the hell do you do that? 3:08 length music file in a .GIF file...
>> Anonymous
Goldfinger - Superman, the song is awesome but the quality sucks. Cool that you can put mp3s in gifs tho
>> Kartyac !B8hhH2jbS2
requesting more and the program or how to do this thanks :)
>> Anonymous
I'm betting that it's just a matter of cat-ing the two files together.
>> Anonymous
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>>202878
i dont know,a friend told me to run it in winamp, and I almost shitted my pants.
>>202879
Yeah, the quality sucks, but I bet you can put some good quality ones too
>>202880
Yeah, I want more! I dont know what program you need to make them though...


And heres another one, not long, but still.
>> Anonymous
Jesus that is hot. You could make some neat web-puzzles or something with this.
>> Anonymous
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Ok, a friend just discovered how to do it, and he already made one, you have to do it manually.
>> Kartyac !B8hhH2jbS2
>>202898
well tell us god!
>> Anonymous
>>202901
>>How?

The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn't checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn't marked as an MP3 block. The result: the picture viewer ignores the music, and the MP3 player ignores the picture.
...er, what?

Never mind.
What programs do these GIF/MP3s work in?

All picture viewers will be able to show the GIF - and most, but not all, MP3 players will be able to play the music. Winamp definitely works. Windows Media Player doesn't.
What limitations are there?

If you're using this web page, the GIF must be under 40K in size, and the MP3 must be under 80K. All full MP3 tracks will be too large for this - you'll need to cut it down and compress it with a sound editing program. Audacity should work. Some small sound effects and clips will be fine.

Technically, you can use any size of GIF/MP3 you want - but to cut down the load on my server, I'm only allowing small files. Using this, you'll get about 30 seconds of music at the lowest reasonable compression (16kbps, 11kHz mono).
But... I want bigger files than that!

Do it manually. The DOS command copy picture.gif /b + music.mp3 /b combined.gif works almost as well (thanks, Magic Hat Detective), although it doesn't get the GIF header information quite right.
>> Anonymous
Man, this must be stickied!
>> Anonymous
Just tried it with foobar2000 0.8.3 and it doesn't work... unfortunately.

I wonder, can you store formats other than mp3? this seems like a handy little idea, hehe.
>> Anonymous
Okay, scratch that, it works with fb2k, but I have to rename the extension to .mp3. Although it kind of defeats the purpose of disguising it as a .gif.
>> Jhoh! !9J6Xe7Aqf.
Not to be a fag (the trip kind) but when it comes to posting songs hidden in gif files, I dunno if they'd allow that.
>> Anonymous
>>202911
weird, i was able to store them in .gif extension.
>> Anonymous
>>202913
What do you mean "store" them? I just get this error in the console:

ERROR (CORE) : error opening file for playback :
INFO (CORE) : location: "file://C:\1144888240793.gif" (0)
>> Anonymous
>>202917
srry, i meant save them as a .gif.
>> Kartyac !B8hhH2jbS2
so there isnt just some crappy C++ program I could dl that would do all this for me cause Im really lazy...please send links if you know any :)
>> Anonymous
>>202922
It's not difficult at all, everyone can do it.
easier explanation.

K, open up command prompt (open start menu, go to run: type cmd press enter) . Copy the .gif and the .mp3 you want to combine to the folder where the command prompt is looking (for me, C:\Documents and Settings\whatevertheaccountiscalled).

Then, type this in:

copy ******.gif /b + ******.mp3 /b combined.gif

Asterisks are where the filenames go.
It will appear as combined.gif in that folder, as a large file (since it's an mp3 and a .gif)
>> Anonymous
>>202935
Holy shit! It worked! but the file is 6 MB big, so I can't upload it
>> Anonymous
>>202935
That's pretty cool, thanks! (I kinda missed the earlier post on that, heh).

Seems to only work with mp3's. I tried doing it with an AAC file i had (m4a container) and it didn't work. Although the mp3 file retained all of the tags I had in it and was readable by Winamp. It also seems to have ignored the VBR header in the mp3 since Winamp doesn't display the length or bitrate correctly. CBR files are fine of course.

All in all, cool trick.
>> Anonymous
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I just tried it, and it worked. So awesome!
Here's mine.
>> Anonymous
HOw do I change it from a .gif to a .mp3 when I try renaming it it comes out as 1144885069.mp3.gif
>> Anonymous
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I made this a few weeks ago
>> Anonymous
>>202968
You don't rename it at all, you just open it in winamp.
>> Anonymous
You don't have to save the image, just right click it and copy the location, and hit File>Play URL in winamp.
>> Anonymous
FYI: Also works with JPG.
>> Anonymous
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>>202987
It does? Well, GIFs can be animated.
>> Anonymous
Whaddya know, it works with .png files too. Anyway, here's one I made just now.
>> Anonymous
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Uh.. forgot to attach the file.
>> Anonymous
This deserves a sticky!
>> Anonymous
>>202989
Rofl, kickass song!
>> Anonymous
this should be implimented in /mu/
>> Anonymous
>>202993
Why would anyone want to use png for any reason at all ever?
>> Anonymous
>>203007
I thought about starting a thread there about it, but I thought maybe the mods might get pissy about it, thinking it might be abused as file sharing.
>> Anonymous
>>203013
1) It's lossless
2) Up to 24 bit like .jpg
3) Transparency
>> Anonymous
>>203015
Gif has transparency. JPG is lossless if you don't use a shitty program.

Anyway, for embedding music, you want to use as small an image as possible, to save room for the actual music, so PNG isn't the right tool for the job.
>> Anonymous
>>203017
Standard JPEGs are lossy, not lossless. And lossless JPEGs are a different format altogether.

GIF's may have transparency but GIF files support only up to 256 colours. PNG files provide good compression for non-complex images without sacrificing quality.
>> Anonymous
read this for the ill-informed on image formats

http://www.r1ch.net/img-formats/
>> Anonymous
>>203023
That's odd, I use photoshop, and When I save a file as a jpg, it's lossless, at least when I put the quality to 12.

Nonetheless, PNG is not the format to use as a music carrier.
>> Anonymous
>>203028

No, it just appears lossless. The jpg is still compressed, even if the compression isn't readily apparent to the naked eye.
>> Anonymous
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Play in winamp!

as if you hadn't already guessed.
>> Anonymous
>>203007
I concur, /r/ for this to be added to /mu/