There was a thing you could do with cat /dev/random into aplay, and get some fun “Music” but you needed some other parameters to get anything other than brown noise.
Mine is basically the same, but since it pipes your filesystem layout into aplay instead of random bits, it’s not just brown noise.
It plays you the song of your system.
(also, it can damage your speakers, headphones and/or ears)
There was a thing you could do with
cat /dev/random
into aplay, and get some fun “Music” but you needed some other parameters to get anything other than brown noise.#!/bin/env bash echo "What music to play?" echo "[1] Groovy; blues" echo "[2] Japanese" echo "[3] ??" echo "[4] 8 bit Bass boosted" read music if [[ $music -eq 1 ]]; then echo "Enjoy!!" cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000 fi if [[ $music -eq 2 ]]; then echo 'Enjoy!!' cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000 & cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format s32 --rate 2000 fi [ $music -eq 4 ] && { cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format S16 --rate 80000 & cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format u8 --rate 8000 --volume=50000 } if [[ $music -eq 3 ]]; then echo "Taken from r/coding; enjoy!!" awk 'function wl() { rate=64000; return (rate/160)*(0.87055^(int(rand()*10)))}; BEGIN { srand(); wla=wl(); while(1) { wlb=wla; wla=wl(); if (wla==wlb) {wla*=2;}; d=(rand()*10+5)*rate/4; a=b=0; c=128; ca=40/wla; cb=20/wlb; de=rate/10; di=0; for (i=0;i<d;i++) { a++; b++; di++; c+=ca+cb; if (a>wla) {a=0; ca*=-1}; if (b>wlb) {b=0; cb*=-1}; if (di>de) {di=0; ca*=0.9; cb*=0.9}; printf("%c",c)}; c=int(c); while(c!=128) { c<128?c++:c--; printf("%c",c)};};}' | sox -t raw -r 64k -c 1 -e unsigned -b 8 - -d fi exit 0
Mine is basically the same, but since it pipes your filesystem layout into aplay instead of random bits, it’s not just brown noise.
It plays you the song of your system.
(also, it can damage your speakers, headphones and/or ears)